Greg Walker

@gregmw4.bsky.social

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Literature Prof at the University of Edinburgh, fan of Prog rock and Nottingham Forest.

Greg Walker is Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature at the University of Edinburgh. He is a graduate of the University of Southampton. His specialist field is the history of literature and drama in the late-medieval period and the sixteenth century. Before taking up the Regius Chair he was the Masson Professor of English at Edinburgh. Before that he was Professor of Early-Modern Literature and Culture and Director of the Medieval Research Centre at the University of Leicester. Between 1986 and 1989 he was a British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Southampton and has also taught at the Universities of Queensland and Buckingham. He was the Head of Edinburgh's School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures between 2008 and 2011. .. more

History 48%

Art 24%

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Bleddyn Bowen @bleddb.bsky.social · 3d

3-year postdoc opportunity at Durham University - any department, any field. Detailed guidance in the link - note that you need a mentor from a relevant department to mentor and support your application.

www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...

addison-wheeler-fellowship - Durham University

www.durham.ac.uk

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Pierre Purseigle @purseigle.bsky.social · 5d

🚨History Job: Assistant Professor in Early Modern British History (Permanent) 🗃️

Come work with us at Warwick! You will join a group of excellent early-modernists and one of the nicest bunches of historians around!
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@uni-of-warwick.bsky.social

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Assistant Professor in Early Modern British History (111286-0126) - University of Warwick

Title: Assistant Professor in Early Modern British History (111286-0126). Application Deadline: . Position Type: Permanent

warwick-careers.tal.net

Greg Walker @gregmw4.bsky.social · 9d

My Top 5, and what I learnt in them:
The Golden Age of Spain (gold! olé!)
English Place Names (‘Ye Bygge Fielde’)
The Causes of the First World War (it was the Germans…)
Chaucer (he’s brill!)
The English Reformation (London’s Stranger Churches all look really normal from the outside)

Greg Walker @gregmw4.bsky.social · 9d

As someone once said, the first shall be last, and the humanists shall do more teaching, for their research costeth little by comparison… 🤔

Greg Walker @gregmw4.bsky.social · 9d

I wonder where the ‘fewer’ will be needed, and where the greater/more time’ will be allocated…

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 10d

'We likely require fewer academics with research in their remit, but those that do need greater time allocated, and must be subject to a strategic research management regime'.

I remain very sceptical/negative about the medium- and long-turn impacts of separating research and teaching. 1/2

For Everything to Stay the Same, Everything Must Change

... a riposte to academic nostalgia

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Scottish Universities' International Summer School @suiss-edi.bsky.social · 10d

Come study literature, theatre or creative writing at the SUISS summer school in beautiful Edinburgh, for 2026. Spend your mornings immersed in learning before soaking up the city’s summer festivals or wandering the city’s ancient streets and hills. Applications now open:
www.suiss.ed.ac.uk

Accepting Applications: 13th July - 22nd August 2026 – Scottish Universities International Summer School

We're now accepting applications for our summer school courses in Literature, Creative Writing, and Theatre at the University of Edinburgh!

www.suiss.ed.ac.uk

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 11d

'New data from the Ministry of Justice show that studying with The Open University (OU) delivers “significant reductions” in reoffending amongst prison learners.'

'It also found that those studying committed 37 per cent fewer offences within a year of release.' 1/2

Ex-offenders offered scholarships as new data shows impact of HE

Calls for more support for people with experience of prison to access higher education as experts warn programmes being hampered by staff shortages

www.timeshighereducation.com

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Rory Naismith @rorynaismith.bsky.social · 12d

Very exciting job announcement! Permanent early medieval (Britain and/or Europe) teaching post at KCL. I know first-hand that this is a great opportunity to work with amazing colleagues and students. www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/136727-...

Lecturer in Early Medieval History | King's College London

www.kcl.ac.uk

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Adrian Streete @profastreete.bsky.social · 14d

I’m very proud of my two PhD students - Liz Leemann and Vivienne Belton - for passing their vivas recently. Two fantastic theses on the body and soul in early modern literary depictions of motherhood, and on Roman Catholicism and the senses in early modern drama. Look out for their work.

Greg Walker @gregmw4.bsky.social · 14d

Thanks Julie!

Greg Walker @gregmw4.bsky.social · 14d

A great book. What channel/service is it on Julie?

Greg Walker @gregmw4.bsky.social · 18d

🥳 Congratulations Patrick!

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 18d

PhD funding for early career historians completing a doctorate.

Applications are invited for the Society's Centenary PhD Fellowships for the academic year 2026-27 bit.ly/49MzqmT.

Two awards of £8500 per student, held jointly with @ihr.bsky.social. Closing date: 31 January 2026 #Skystorians

Call for Royal Historical Society PhD funding with text: The Royal Historical Society offers two annual PhD Fellowships for postgraduate historians in their third year of research at a university in the UK or overseas in order to complete a doctorate. The Fellowships comprise:

Two RHS Centenary Fellowships: each Centenary Fellowship runs for 6-months and is worth £8,500 for final-year PhD students to complete their dissertations and to develop their research career.
All Fellowships are open to candidates without regard to nationality or academic affiliation. They are jointly held with the Institute of Historical Research (IHR), University of London, where Fellows are based.

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Marianne O'Doherty @marianneodoherty.bsky.social · 19d

AHRC Doctoral Landscape Awards @ Southampton Klaxon! Arts and humanities! Deadline March! Medieval studies proposals welcome! Deets on the webpage: www.southampton.ac.uk/doctoral-col...

AHRC Doctoral Landscape Award (DLA)

www.southampton.ac.uk

Greg Walker @gregmw4.bsky.social · 20d

This was when the Daily Torygraph and Times were the size of a bedsheet and could take up a carriage on their own…

Greg Walker @gregmw4.bsky.social · 20d

I still remember the grumbling and unwilling shuffling up when I went into a compartment already occupied by… People… Harrumph!

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Elizabeth Boyle @thecelticist.bsky.social · 20d

PhD scholarship in History or Geography at Dublin City University - applicants with an interest in medieval Ireland are particularly encouraged to apply.

#MedievalSky

www.dcu.ie/historygeogr...

PhD Scholarship Opportunity | School of History and Geography

www.dcu.ie

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EarlyModernista @ellierycroft.bsky.social · 21d

Unboxing!!

Greg Walker @gregmw4.bsky.social · 21d

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Greg Walker @gregmw4.bsky.social · 21d

Very pleased to see hard(back) evidence that this tricksy creature is indeed loose in the world. It was a joy to work with the brilliant @ellierycroft.bsky.social to bring it into existence.

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Dr Mark Purcell @camlibresearch.bsky.social · 26d

Munby Fellowship in Bibliography based @theul.bsky.social in Cambridge - closes on 1 February, so still time to apply.

Munby Fellowship in Bibliography 2026 - 2027 at University of Cambridge

Searching for an academic job? Explore this Munby Fellowship in Bibliography 2026 - 2027 opening on jobs.ac.uk! Click to view more details and browse other academic jobs.

www.jobs.ac.uk

Greg Walker @gregmw4.bsky.social · 28d

‘ardest game in the world, wizarding, innit. You’ve got to have a second career lined up, just in case it all goes arse upwards with the sorcery…’

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Dr. Erika Graham-Goering @jeanneologist.bsky.social · 28d

An interesting PhD opportunity (i.e. job!) at Oslo on the project POLYCHROME: "Candidates should propose a research project that examines, in one form or another, historical sources that shed light on changing attitudes to medieval objects after the Reformations in the Scandinavian countries."

Doctoral Research Fellowship (SKO 1017) at the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History (293057) | University of Oslo

Job title: Doctoral Research Fellowship (SKO 1017) at the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History (293057), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Sunday, March 22, 2026

www.jobbnorge.no

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · Jan 9

'In a House of Lords debate on 8 January, Smith said she recognised “concern…about the reduction in the number of students going into higher education to study modern foreign languages and the threats to some of those modern foreign language courses”.' 1/2

Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · Jan 9

Jacqui Smith: Tuition fee increase could stem language course cuts.

Skills minister rules out change to strategic priorities funding to help ailing discipline.

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...