Brilliant piece in tes by @bobeaglestone.bsky.social arguing that a simple tweak to GCSE English Lit could dramatically improve things. Really pleased to see our work with @mariakna.bsky.social on the difficult vocabulary in the spec cited. 👏 www.tes.com/magazine/tea...
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Great opportunity for Samuel Beckett scholars to work on the Beckett archive at Reading samuelbeckettsociety.org/2026/03/10/c...
Yet more great evidence about how important and skilled English graduates are @univeng.bsky.social
I couldn’t agree more, Andrew. It was horrifying and upsetting, and a terrible prelude to the news of yet more deaths.
#EnglishCreates: Futures
Today, Dr JT Welsch (University of York) re-examines the so-called 'death of reading':
'Like most clickbait, these rants rest on a false opposition. There’s no real war between print and digital media.'
universityenglish.ac.uk/death-of-rea...
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Such a pleasure to reflect on Middlemarch again. Thanks for the opportunity
Thanks, Susan. That’s really lovely to hear
Fantastic, moving testimony to the power and importance of reading
Such a brilliant resource - and there’s more to come
#EnglishCreates: Futures continues with this post by Francesca Mackenney and Jamie Castell (Cardiff University):
'How do representations of sound in literature shape our awareness of the natural world?'
Read the full post here: universityenglish.ac.uk/englishcreat...
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New #EnglishCreates post. @ies-sas.bsky.social @englishassociation.bsky.social
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Our 'Environments' month continues with Prof Ralph Pite's latest piece on bringing nature into the teaching of English Studies:
'How can you make the natural world an everyday, "natural" presence for students?'
Full post: lnkd.in/ewQk7pDB
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#Ecocriticism
To mark Joyce's birthday this week and the final chance to see our 'James Joyce: Enigmas and Puzzles' exhibition, Fiona Melhuish, Librarian (museums and collections), introduces some of the early editions of Joyce's publications. Check out the blog post!👇
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An illustration of Battersea power station with a view of a boat from the river.
Have you completed a PhD in the last 10 years? Applications are open for our Postdoctoral Visiting Fellowship in Sustainability and Environment. Funding covers an £8000 bursary for part-time (0.5) research over 8 months, plus travel expenses. Apply by Monday 9 February. link.bl.uk/VisitingFellowship
#EnglishCreates:Futures continues w/ Prof Ralph Pite's brilliantly insightful reflections on how English Studies seeks to address contemporary climate crisis: 'THE GRAPHS DON'T WORK'
Full post: universityenglish.ac.uk/englishcreat...
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#EnglishCreates: Futures continues this week with a focus on the 'Blue Humanities':
'Oceans have always seemed mysterious, vast and invulnerable... Until recently, that is...'
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#EnglishCreates: Futures delves into the Blue Humanities with a post by Dr Laurence Publicover (University of Bristol):
'The language we use to talk about the ocean floor reveals our (often misplaced) assumptions about it...'
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Excellent start to 6 months of showing how and why English Studies matters so much to all of us #EnglishCreates from @univeng.bsky.social and lots of our brilliant colleagues
And when the cars drove on the right
I do think this is true. I'm often guilty myself of underplaying what the work I do looks like or how much time and effort it takes. Research isn't 'just reading' or a question of sucking up summaries others have created. It's knowledge creation.
So let me go through the process with an example 1/
Feels like the right day to repost this brilliant tweet from @lewisgoodall.com
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Philosophy 7.7% unemployed
Physics 8% unemployed
Who is more likely to be unemployed 15 months after graduation the Philosopher or the Physicist? The answer may not be what you think
English lit - 6.4% unemployed
Maths - 7.5% unemployed
So kid, in your heart you want to study humanities but you worry about your job prospects? Let’s play a game.
On the latest data, who is more likely to be unemployed after 15 months after graduation. The English Lit grad or the Maths grad?
WRONG!
Languages - 7.6% unemployed
Computer science- 9.7%
How about Languages v Computer Science? Hmm…
Brilliant opportunity here to work with excellent colleagues - and their amazing collection - at MERL
One of the finest software engineers I've ever had the pleasure to work with had a degree in music. Another had a degree in Egyptology.
The important thing was that their degrees taught them how to think. Their love of the subjects just made things better.
