Off to Manchester to talk about smell and the past (I mean, what else do I talk about frankly) at 13:00 so do come along and like the sound of it! www.mmu.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
Fingers crossed eh.
Pretty sure it was happening or has happened at UEA as well? Not sure if it went through or not.
If you want to hear more about the experience of being a taught postgraduate student here at York, do read the blog written by Grace, one of our Renaissance and #EarlyModern Studies MA students blogs.york.ac.uk/student-voic... 🗃️
Proud of this. Packed with stuff we’ve been doing.
Though I know there are good eggs who have been working hard in the union on this and other stuff.
The absolute state of this. Sheffield Hallam’s leadership should be ashamed. Agree with one of the responses below the post that it feels like the Union have largely ignored what’s going on in post-92 institutions for too long and left it too late. It certainly felt that way when I was at ARU.
Otherwise we end up in the same situation as grants for electric cars or the help to buy scheme: giving well off people who don’t need it a further leg up.
Which then begets questions about salary stagnation, the cost of living, house prices etc etc
But it also extends to so many other structural issues: if you want people using cars less, in a manner that doesn’t overwhelm public transport, you might also have to fix the issues that lead to people commuting in the first place…
Yes precisely. We need infrastructure that works for people rather than people having to work around infrastructure.
there is a middle way between Extinction Rebellion and ‘ill drink petrol until the world burns’ and it’s called sensible, evidence informed, policy that takes all actors into account and does the bare minimum to avoid the response to the climate crisis being about embedding inequality further.
can see labours next attack line: ‘‘A vote for the Green Party is a vote to force my son to hug trees’
Also, pointing at technology and saying ‘that’ll fix it’ is generally not good policy whatever the field.
Yeah it was um… a somewhat lacklustre a performance (and that’s being polite).
I absolutely think the climate crisis is THE issue of our time but I also feel like policy on this stuff is often drawn up by people who simple do not know or care about what goes on in the average provincial town.
Try telling this to somebody who uses a car everyday and drives a crappy ten year old petrol motor that might be worth £3k tops. How are they going to get an electric car? They can’t use public transport because it’s unreliable and expensive. What are they going to do?
‘Eliminating UK’s reliance on fossil fuels by adopting… green technologies, such as electric vehicles and heat pumps, would be the best and most cost-effective option for the future economy.’ So both things that, grant schemes aside, consumers pay for themselves. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
So R4 Today sets up an interview on student loans plans and chooses to position it as students versus universities (in the form of UUK)… it’s the government we‘re all the trying to convince here guys, come on!
Liverpool friends - I’m giving this talk on Wednesday!
😳that is… a lot of time
Cheers Dave!
It’s ace isn’t it?! Designed by Holly Ovenden.
Cheers! It’s in good company in the Yale stables 😉
Thank you mate 😌
COVER REVEAL. Really excited to show off the fantastic cover for my new book Sniff from @yalebooks.bsky.social. It’s a history of smells across time and space and hits the shelves on the 8th September. Pre-order from Yale, your local bookshop, or the usual suspects! yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...
‘And now in Britain one of the great success stories in human history is going into reverse’. You‘re spoilt for choice in terms of what this quote could refer to over the last few decades. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Find the way in which the nineteenth century ‘past’ is mobilised by water companies fascinating. Claiming that we have the cleanest water since the Industrial Revolution (low bar?!) whilst also (wrongly) suggesting our sewage system is entirely Victorian.
Renationalise the water industry. Just do it. Do it Now. None of this tip-toeing around messing with fines www.theguardian.com/environment/...
tell you what, cutting words really sucks the joy out of writing
