UoN Humanities

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🏛️ CfP: Excited to announce our first workshop, exploring histories of Commercial Determinants of Health!

📅 Workshop: 15 April 2026, ‪@lshtm.bsky.social‬
📝 Submit abstract by 13 October 2025
💰 Travel funding available (priority to ECRs)

Submit 250-word abstract + 150-word bio to lshjh14@lshtm.ac.uk

At the end of a long academic year, what do #EastMids #historyteacher colleagues need?

ADVANCED notice of another fab #CPD opportunity with
@uonsoe.bsky.social #SIG & @uonhumanities.bsky.social 's Dr Sarah Holland.

Get the 17th September in your diaries.📅 Booking info to follow. 😃

poster celebrating humanities excellence in the Lord Dearing Awards 2025

🏆 Huge congratulations to our brilliant Humanities colleagues recognised with Lord Dearing Awards for outstanding teaching!

Well done! 👏

#LordDearingAwards #Humanities #TeachingExcellence #UoN

🎥 40 Years Since the 1984-85 Miners’ Strike ⚒️

The Thoroton Society hosted a powerful panel with former miners, historians & academics reflecting on its legacy — personal stories, social impact & community change.

📺 Watch here: www.nottingham.ac.uk/humanities/d...

Now moving on to the brilliant Dr Joe Merton - one of the biggest advocates @uonhumanities.bsky.social for the importance of academics and teachers working together and learning from each other. We're thrilled to have him back @uonsoe.bsky.social to speak to our community.

Biblical exegesis at Wearmouth‐Jarrow before Bede? The Hereford commentary on Matthew This article examines a previously neglected fragment of an early medieval commentary on Matthew’s Gospel, the bifolium Hereford Cathedral Library, P. II. 10. I argue on palaeographical grounds that ...

📜 New discovery from early medieval Wearmouth-Jarrow

We’re excited to share a new open-access article by Dr Samuel Cardwell, published in Early Medieval Europe.

📖 Read the article: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#EastMids #historyteacher s, Nottingham @histassoc.bsky.social Teacher Network & @uonsoe.bsky.social with @uonhumanities.bsky.social are pleased to invite you our FREE conference 'Teaching the United States in the Age of Trump' on Sat 26th April. Tickets: shorturl.at/K4bNg

#HistoryEducation #UKEd

It’s not too late to chat to us about #MSCA fellowships. They can be held in Humanities subjects as well as sciences, & are open to all nationalities, incl. US citizens. #classics #archaeology Get in touch if you have a suitable project! 🏺🧪
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Ramadan Mubarak to all of our students, staff, alumni and friends observing this holy month. ✨🌙

Join our Chaplaincy team in March to find out more about Ramadan and share a fast-breaking.

Find info and booking link at www.nottingham.ac.uk/chaplaincy/e... #WeAreUoN

📣 This International Women's Day, in a powerful reflection of progress, our School is led entirely by women who are actively accelerating change in higher education.

We're not waiting until 2158 for gender equality - we're taking #AccelerateAction now.

Share this post to inspire others!

Hannah is proud to support @artsemergency.bsky.social 👏

💫 Breaking Barriers

"If someone says it's not your place – find allies and make it your place."

Professor Hannah O'Regan, Head of Archaeology and Palaeoecology, isn't just talking about change - she's creating it.

Have you faced similar barriers in your field?

#AccelerateAction #IWD2025

PROJECT!

Dr Lydia Farina @NottsPhilosophy has won a £1.1M award from @ahrcpress to create immersive art experience through #ArtificialIntelligence!

Press release: www.nottingham.ac.uk/news/ai-proj...

#philosophy #ai #responsibility #creatives #grant

Celebrating Ally Heery, Operations Manager for the School of Humanities, for International Women's Day

Ally Heery answers: What's one stereotype you've challenge in your field?

🌿 Meet Ally Heery, Operations Manager at the School of Humanities, who shares her powerful story of breaking barriers for working parents.

🔮 What workplace convention do you believe needs reconsidering?

#AccelerateAction #IWD2025 #UoNHumanities #MeaningfulChange

✨ Making Space in Academia

"Most leadership positions in the School of Humanities are held by women. I hope to help others see that academic leadership is possible, whatever their starting point."

What's your experience of leadership in academia? Share your thoughts below 💭

#AccelerateAction

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Nicola McLelland - Page 2 - Q&A

🎯 Leading Change: School of Humanities

Meet Professor Nicola McLelland, our Head of School of Humanities, advocating for change in education and society:

This International Women's Day week, our female leaders share their insights on accelerating equality. Stay tuned! 👀

#AccelerateAction

Individual Vices and Institutional Failings as Drivers of Vulnerabilisation This paper explores the phenomenon of vulnerabilisation in relation to the experiences of persons with chronic illnesses. We distinguish a range of kinds of vulnerability, including epistemic vulne...

RESEARCH!

Ian James Kidd and Havi Carel @PhilATBristol on processes of vulnerabilization in healthcare.

How do individual vices and institutional failings worsen the vulnerability of patients?

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#philosophy #illness #healthcare #vulnerability #ethics

TALKS!

First our PGR seminar talk by Liz Frissell!

"The Metaphysical Basis for Acceptance & Commitment Therapy: Buddhist or Stoic?".

In-person: 1-2:30pm - A26 Lenton Grove.
Online: teams.microsoft.com/l/channel/19...

#philosophy #buddhism #stoicism #therapy #talk

Poster with a quote from Dr Richard Gaunt, Seminar Convenor, thanking people for their support as Local History Seminars come to an end.

Thank you message to volunteers, speakers and attendees.

After 40+ years, Local History Seminars will conclude in after its final session on Saturday 8 March 2025.

Thank you to all our volunteers, speakers and attendees who made this possible! 📚🏛️

More info: www.nottingham.ac.uk/humanities/d....

#ThankYou #History #UoNHumanities #LocalHistorySeminars

Queer Britain and Public History In this podcast Dr Samantha Knapton of Nottingham University and Jennifer Shearman of Queer Britain explain how their work has come together to reveal and present the hidden history of LGBTQ+ lives…

🎧 #LGBTHistoryMonth Special! 🏳️‍🌈

Our historian @lgmsam.bsky.social joins forces with @queerbritain.bsky.social to explore hidden histories in this powerful podcast.

Listen to the full podcast here: https://buff.ly/418bSFU

#QueerHistory #UoNHumanities #Podcast

Poster for an event. Title: "queer histories of central and eastern europe". Date: 18th February at 5.30pm. Location: Lenton Grove at the University of Nottingham, room a18. Email Kate.law@nottingham.ac.uk with any queries.

Lovely roundtable talk for LGBTQ+ History Month at the @uniofnottingham.bsky.social. Excited to talk with @abikaras.bsky.social and @siobhanhearne.bsky.social about queer histories of central and eastern Europe 🥳

Join us (if you're about in Nottingham, of course) - all are welcome!