🚨 Today we publish State of the North 2025 🚨

The North gets just half as much arts and culture funding per person as London. We reveal the impact this & other regional divides have on young people, and what must change 👇

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Had a brilliant day of chatting to colleagues across Arts, Humanities and Social Scienes about sustainability, transformative pedagogies, our ecological self & more. Organised by the incredible @dralberro.bsky.social

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Here's a great (free) opportunity for playwrights and theatre-makers!

The rather wonderful Zoë Svendsen is leading a series of 3 online workshops on Climate Dramaturgy, "exploring what it means to see the climate crisis not just as a topic, but as a context for all aspects of theatre-making."

Amidst the gloom it is great to see some good news from UK universities - Sussex starting 1st undergrad degree in climate justice - they have been a pioneer for a long time ...
(bit of a thread here)
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Cuts to the Arts and Humanities have been going on for years in the UK. Several great departments were closed down. But in most places, the erosion was more gradual. /1

"This is not an isolated problem. It is a nationwide crisis."

Thank you for taking the initiative on this letter, @newcastleucu.bsky.social! And an excellent letter it is too, clear and referenced.

Please everyone who cares about higher education and research, co-sign. #UKHE

Call for 12 Bicentenary Postdoc Research Fellowships (3-years) at UoM. Fellows will need a mentor and address the Faculty of Humanities priority research themes of Digital Futures; Sustainable Futures; Creativity; Global Inequalities; and Adaptive Societies. www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

One month today, we will have completed the re-regulation of our buses across the entire city-region - ON TIME and ON BUDGET. 💪🏻

We need new legislation to prevent any future Government deregulating them again!

This is what's so baffling about so many suggestions for AI in the humanities classroom: they mistake the product for the point. Writing outlines and essays is important not because you need to make outlines and essays but because that's how you learn to think with/through complex ideas.

Amongst everything else that's going on in UK universities, this hasn't had as much coverage as it might have done in other years. In many institutions, it'll lead to changes in how undergraduates are taught, too.

Immensely excited to launch MA Arts, Culture and the Environment (MA ACE) at UoM!

Our first intake will be in 2025. Details on content and applications are here: www.manchester.ac.uk/study/master...

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