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Kelly Smith

@smithkj.bsky.social

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Enterprise and entrepreneurship educator at the University of Birmingham. Art collector and greyhound guardian. PFHEA, Fellow and Life Fellow of EEUK, and Fellow of ISBE.

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Margarita @margarita.bsky.social · 7h

In good news, a little one was born in Utah🦒

www.sltrib.com/news/2026/01...

Utah Hogle Zoo photo, giraffe and parents

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Jim Dickinson @jimdickinson.bsky.social · 2d

In all the furore over student loans, remember this. Student number growth of 25% since 2007. If you count public expenditure on HE as grants to unis + expected student loan write offs, the net public contribution to HE has fallen by almost a billion per year in today's money.

Kelly Smith @smithkj.bsky.social · 2d

Daz took us on a sculpture trail around Warwick Uni today.

Daz the greyhound in his grey jumper walking Richard around a large sculpture of a dinosaur made out of rusting metal sheets.

Daz the greyhound in his grey jumper admiring a black stone sculpture that looks a bit like an onion. Richard watching on at the end of a lead.

Daz the greyhound in his grey jumper walking Richard around a rust red sculpture which looks like a large style made out of girders.

Daz the greyhound in his grey jumper admiring a large bright red sculpture made io of standing blocks and open circles at different levels.

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 3d

A small but very deep thing that bothers me about generative AI as a shortcut to practice and work and skill is the basic assumption that it’s impossible to take pleasure in a creative pursuit that you aren’t very good at and I assure you that is not the case

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Dana Bui @theeddesigner.bsky.social · 4d

To push students towards metacognition, we need first to ask them questions that consider the steps that led to the event, the process of the event, and its impact or aftermath.

Scaffolding reflection: Guiding students toward metacognitive learning and self evaluation

Scaffolding reflection helps students move from surface-level diary writing to deep metacognitive awareness. By guiding learners through structured prompts, modelling reflective thinking, and consistently embedding reflection, educators create supportive frameworks that foster self-regulation, critical thinking, and lifelong learning.

theeddesigner.com

Kelly Smith @smithkj.bsky.social · 6d

Kids! Adults or kids! But I’d like to think that ‘kinds’ are what they are too.

Kelly Smith @smithkj.bsky.social · 6d

They’re doing the Birdie Song now! I want to join in!! Not sure if the adults or kinds are having more fun.

Kelly Smith @smithkj.bsky.social · 6d

Sitting having a cup of tea at Warwick Art Centre before travelling to Harry’s funeral. A group of children have gathered for a craft and play session nearby. Yellow Bird being sung and accompanied by a piano. Tambourines and laughter. Bird song playing on speakers. Joys of life. Ooh! Violin now!

Kelly Smith @smithkj.bsky.social · 6d

I’m going to the funeral of Harry - my entrepreneurship education research friend and mentor - today. It’s funny what memories hold the strongest. For me it’s talking art over hot chocolate and co-presenting with him at a conference in Canada when the fire alarm went off. I’ve stocked up on tissues.

Kelly Smith @smithkj.bsky.social · 6d

I like the way Tom recognises we need to find our own writing routines, but, as we also have a Dymo Labelwriter, I’m going to try out his inspiration bottling idea.

Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 9d

One of the questions I am asked most often is “What is your writing routine?” I’ve avoided answering it for many years but decided it was finally time to give an honest insight into the disciplined methods that have served me so well over the course of sixteen books: www.tom-cox.com/an-exclusive...

An Exclusive Look Inside My Writing Routine

I normally wake just before 3am, get immediately into my tracksuit and go for a run around the bathroom, but not for long, since writing time is of the utmost value to me and I’m at the height of my i...

www.tom-cox.com

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 7d

In the UK academic recession, you will be at one of these stages since many unis buy the same cuts model from the same consultancies. It is always the same process:
*Talk of belt-tightening
*Incidental savings (e.g. printing, refreshments)
*Travel budgets cut
*Promotion freeze (1/4)

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🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social · 7d

Tomorrow I'm doing a lecture with a glorious disaster of a medieval Cymraeg story & so today I'm putting it on Bluesky (so I don't have to open X-itter where I told it the first time)

It might be incestuous & sort of has bestiality, but it's also one of the oldest Welsh stories with an LGBT theme!

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 7d

'It’s a perilous moment: even though there is evidence that providers are driving up revenue and cutting non-staff costs, we’re clearly cutting into bone at this point. And this is (unless managed very carefully) to the likely detriment of applicant choice and the student experience.'

The state of sector finances, 2024-25

With the majority of providers now having published financial accounts for 2024-25, David Kernohan takes an in-depth look at what we can learn

Kelly Smith @smithkj.bsky.social · 8d

That’s amazing. I’ve never seen greyhound puppy photos before. Gone all gooey.

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IAlwaysUpvoteGreyhounds @upvotegreyhounds.bsky.social · 8d

I could get lost in this picture. Arrow is pointing to Diego, and I’m not sure which one is Belmont.

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 9d

One of the questions I am asked most often is “What is your writing routine?” I’ve avoided answering it for many years but decided it was finally time to give an honest insight into the disciplined methods that have served me so well over the course of sixteen books: www.tom-cox.com/an-exclusive...

An Exclusive Look Inside My Writing Routine

I normally wake just before 3am, get immediately into my tracksuit and go for a run around the bathroom, but not for long, since writing time is of the utmost value to me and I’m at the height of my i...

www.tom-cox.com

Kelly Smith @smithkj.bsky.social · 9d

I’m enjoying your journey. Bringing back memories of training to Venice via Paris and Milan. Somehow managed to arrive in Paris a month too late for our ticket! Lovely man helped us rebook and apologised he could only refund half the price for something that was totally our fault.

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 10d

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Kelly Smith @smithkj.bsky.social · 10d

I love the idea of learning about interior lighting in the Roman age!

Kelly Smith @smithkj.bsky.social · 10d

Never mind jobs you had, tell me five classes you took at university:

1. Visual psychology
2. Artificial intelligence programming
3. Children’s drawings
4. Criminology
5. British Sign Language (extra-curricular)

abbi @abbis.bsky.social · 10d

Never mind jobs you had, tell me five classes you took at university:

1. German Aesthetics
2. Kierkegaard
3. Julian of Norwich
4. Language, Truth & Logic
5. Interior Lighting in the Roman Age

Dr Cinzia Yates 🇮🇲🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @manxinwales.bsky.social · 10d

Never mind jobs you had, tell me five classes you took at university.

1: Punk
2: Medieval lute tablature
3: Cultural history of Ireland
4: Medieval Architecture
5: Sociolinguistics of Manx

Kelly Smith @smithkj.bsky.social · 10d

Interesting survey. Made me think.

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abbi @abbis.bsky.social · 10d

Never mind jobs you had, tell me five classes you took at university:

1. German Aesthetics
2. Kierkegaard
3. Julian of Norwich
4. Language, Truth & Logic
5. Interior Lighting in the Roman Age

Dr Cinzia Yates 🇮🇲🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @manxinwales.bsky.social · 10d

Never mind jobs you had, tell me five classes you took at university.

1: Punk
2: Medieval lute tablature
3: Cultural history of Ireland
4: Medieval Architecture
5: Sociolinguistics of Manx

zellish @zellishrows.bsky.social · 10d

Never mind jobs you had, tell me five classes you took at university.

1. Economic History
2. Philosophy
3. The Enlightenment
4. Medicine in Tudor England
5. Social divides in Victorian London

And I loved every minute of it.

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Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 11d

Survey for a pal’s offspring at Uni - on the 'Consumer Understanding of the Environmental Implications of Alternative Proteins'. UK only please I think. Takes a couple of minutes. Ta.

app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/qmu/consum...?

Consumer Understanding of the Environmental Implications of Alternative Proteins

Online surveys is a powerful, easy to use tool for creating online surveys. Run by Jisc, online surveys is used by over 300 different organisations in the UK...

app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk

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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 11d

You don’t choose the scone life. The scone life chooses you.

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 14d

Here are my top 10 most unusual dog friends of all time!

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Prof David Bailey @dgbailey.bsky.social · 14d

Yeah! Ozzy Osbourne exhibition extended to Sunday 27 September 2026: Ozzy Osbourne (1948-2025): Working Class Hero | Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery.
www.birminghammuseums.org.uk/exhibitions/...

Ozzy Osbourne (1948-2025): Working Class Hero | Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery | Birmingham Museums

This exhibition celebrates the solo achievements and global awards of rock icon Ozzy Osbourne and the album art of the original Black Sabbath line-up to co

www.birminghammuseums.org.uk

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 14d

'we classify against the extent to which programme outcomes have been met to a high standard. On that logic, we ought to be delighted when more and more students meet those standards. Yet when they do, we shift uneasily and brace for assaultive chorus of “dumbing down.”'

What grade inflation panics miss about the real value of higher education

Mark Peace puts the case that pressure on the graduate premium, in combination with AI, should be causing higher education to look again at the challenge of capturing the full breadth of student outco...

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Buckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social · 14d

They don't make playgrounds like they used to, mainly because launching a bunch of kids down a slide into what looks like girders probably stopped being fun after the first few times.

#MKMonday

A black and white photo of a playground in Clailey Court, 1976. Lots of children are climbing up a slope to go on a slide. In the background there is a lean-to swing, and a bizarre structure that might be a climbing frame that looks like a bunch of girders just welded together. In the distance are houses with sloped roofs.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 14d

'A new £1.5m awards scheme has been launched to recognise and celebrate visual art education in the UK – with £100,000 being awarded to three organisations a year for the next five years.'

New £1.5m awards scheme launches to celebrate UK visual art education

Freelands Foundation will give £100,000 to three projects every year ‘against the backdrop of 15 years of cuts’

www.theguardian.com

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 15d

Sea Harrier, 2010 by UK artist Fiona Banner #womensart

Photo featuring a huge sculpture of an upside-down war plane in a grand art gallery room