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Carol Robinson
@carolrobinson1.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Criminology, University of York, UK, with an interest in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL). FHEA. Currently thinking about SoTL ethics, guest speakers in the classroom and how we teach theory. And cake.
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We need two new full-time lecturers in #criminology here at @sheffielduni.bsky.social. One permanent share.google/RuTNSJWfvkuK... and one 12 month maternity cover share.google/xzf5icskztO9...
Lecturer in Criminology at University of Sheffield
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October 18, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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SCIENCE RELIGION AND THE HUMAN FUTURE (Oxford UP) available Jan 16! So grateful to fabulous co-authors Charlotte Sleigh & David Wilkinson who stepped up after the dreadful loss of Tom McLeish (plus new jobs for other authors): book would not be here without them! @eclasproject.bsky.social
October 14, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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I’m really looking forward to speaking at this event at LSE alongside Lois Shearing and chaired by Rachel O’Neill. All welcome! Link to register is below. @lsemedia.bsky.social @manchesterup.bsky.social forms.office.com/pages/respon...
October 2, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Raphael Nowak ( @raphahead.bsky.social ) has co-authored and published a book titled “Music Tastes of French People: Preferences, Use Values, and Competence” with ‘Le Bord de l’Eau’.

#France #French #Music
Les goûts musicaux des Français.es – Le Bord de l'Eau
Aucun produit dans le panier.
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October 4, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Have you got a SoTL project related to identity in teaching and learning?

ISSOTL Grand Challenges SIG on how identities affect teaching & learning is hosting a webinar (29/1/2026) &
looking for papers or lightning talks. Submissions by 12noon GMT on 17/11/25

CfP: drive.google.com/file/d/1ZcQa...
Webinar - Identity in Teaching and Learning - Call for Contributions.pdf
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October 1, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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Have you got a SoTL project related to identity in teaching and learning?

The ISSOTL Grand Challenges on how identities affect teaching & learning is hosting a webinar (29/1/2026) &
looking for papers or lightning talks. Submissions by 12noon GMT on 17/11/25

CfP: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Webinar - Identity in Teaching and Learning - Call for Contributions
WEBINAR: Identity in Teaching and Learning Thursday 29 January 2026 Call for Contributions How identities interact with both teaching and learning is one of the five, complex, “grand challenges” for...
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September 15, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Have you got a SoTL project related to identity in teaching and learning?

The ISSOTL Grand Challenges on how identities affect teaching & learning is hosting a webinar (29/1/2026) &
looking for papers or lightning talks. Submissions by 12noon GMT on 17/11/25

CfP: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Webinar - Identity in Teaching and Learning - Call for Contributions
WEBINAR: Identity in Teaching and Learning Thursday 29 January 2026 Call for Contributions How identities interact with both teaching and learning is one of the five, complex, “grand challenges” for...
docs.google.com
September 15, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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Hey You'll 🙂✊🏾

"No Release" - a film based on my recent BA project on immigration GPS ankle monitors, directed by amazing Sînziana Cojocărescu, is going to be screened at the BLOC cinema QMUL, on 22nd September. More details and registration link below.

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September 8, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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JOB: Lecturer in Criminology (R&T) at the University of Glasgow.

Full time, fixed term (5 year) post in a collegiate team which is part of the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research @thesccjr.bsky.social
#Criminology #AcademicSky #Research
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Lecturer in Criminology (R&T) at University of Glasgow
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August 1, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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In case you missed it yesterday, mega-thread about the issues with Imposter Syndrome, its possible frequent misdiagnosis, and Trespasser Syndrome being an important alternative.
New post on how we use #ImposterSyndrome when perhaps we mean #TrespasserSyndrome. 📚

My colleague Raj Mann introduced me to this new term and I can't get it out of my head. I think 'Imposter Syndrome' is a potentially harmful term we should stop misusing in Higher Ed, libraries & elsewhere...

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It might not be Imposter Syndrome... We need to talk about Trespasser Syndrome — Ned Potter
Back in 2014 I wrote on this blog that Imposter Syndrome ran through librarianship like a vein. Writing now in 2025, I consider that a misdiagnosis. Imposter Syndrome is defined as a psychological co...
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August 1, 2025 at 2:07 PM
What a day at #EuroSoTL ! Loads of interesting and inspiring presentations, workshops and conversations re teaching & learning, assessment, community engaged learning, inclusion - with fabulous & enthusiastic colleagues from Europe and beyond. My paper - What makes SoTL ethical - is tomorrow at 1pm.
June 19, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Interesting session on assessment at today #EuroSoTL conference.
June 19, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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The Department of Sociology is turning 60 years old! 🎉

Join us on the 18th June for lively discussions and conversation on Sociology past, present and future, as we celebrate 60 years of legacies and sociological ideas at York.

Sign up and schedule here 👉 buff.ly/mzLFh0a

#UoY #Sociology #60years
Celebrating 60 Years of Sociology at York
Please join us at the University of York as the Department of Sociology turns 60 years old!
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May 2, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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Why does the burden of housework still fall on women? Sociologist Emma Casey offers a powerful call to challenge the prevailing myths around housework.

The Return of the Housewife - 7 Jun

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#YorkIdeas @emmahcasey.bsky.social @manchesterup.bsky.social
June 2, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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We have evidence of mass forced hunger.

We have evidence of mass forced displacement.

We have evidence of mass killings.

We have evidence of mass atrocities.

And so Quakers echo these desperate words: “What more evidence do you need now?".

www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...
Quakers ask the UK government on Gaza: What more evidence do you need now?
What more evidence do you need now? These are the words of Tom Fletcher, the UN’s head of humanitarian affairs, as he briefed the UN Security Council earlier this week on the fast deteriorating situat...
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May 17, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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My book The Return of the Housewife is now available to pre-order, has an appropriately angry front cover and some lovely early endorsements @manchesterup.bsky.social
Manchester University Press - The return of the housewife
The return of the housewife - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of The return of the housewife by Emma Casey
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November 18, 2024 at 10:30 AM
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Advance copy of Growing Up Godless just arrived - I’m so excited to hold a copy!

It will be out in the world next month.

You can preorder from press.princeton.edu/books/paperb... - use code P327 for a 30% discount @princetonupress.bsky.social #atheism #humanism
April 14, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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Excuse me the what now?
Yesterday, police forcibly entered a Quaker Meeting House in London and arrested the 6 young people inside, discussing the humanitarian situation in Gaza. A reminder that the Quakers are a religious movement motivated by peacebuilding and non violence www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...
Quakers condemn police raid on Westminster Meeting House
Police broke into a Quaker Meeting House last night (27 March) and arrested six young people holding a meeting over concerns for the climate and Gaza.
www.quaker.org.uk
March 28, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Thrilled to see my new article in @pspolisci.bsky.social, published open access on first view today: ‘Student Choice in Assessment: Is There a Subject-Specific Case for Using Assessment Optionality in Political Science Education?’

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Student Choice in Assessment: Is There a Subject-Specific Case for Using Assessment Optionality in Political Science Education? | PS: Political Science & Politics | Cambridge Core
Student Choice in Assessment: Is There a Subject-Specific Case for Using Assessment Optionality in Political Science Education?
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February 25, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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Oxford University Press will be awarding as many as 10 ECRs the opportunity to publish their first book in fully open access as well as in hardback. Today the website was revised to make clear that independent/unaffiliated scholars are eligible. Deadline March 3. academic.oup.com/pages/early-...
January 17, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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⭐️New article⭐️

‘Strengthen Them Inside’: Supporting prison staff wellbeing in England through creative writing

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Further access via @uniofhull.bsky.social repository coming soon
‘Strengthen Them Inside’: Supporting prison staff wellbeing in England through creative writing - Helen Nichols, Josephine Metcalf, Fiona Earle, Léa Fréour, 2025
Abstract Prison staff experience multiple stressors in the course of their working lives and existing literature consistently emphasises the negative wellbeing ...
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February 10, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Really useful reflections here on why HEIs need to do more to recognise and adapt to meet the needs of commuting students.
February 3, 2025 at 10:12 AM
In case anyone who needed to know missed this...
December 2, 2024 at 9:14 AM
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We invite submissions for the second Stuart Hall Essay Prize. The award aims to stimulate a new generation of thinkers who can offer original, lively and topical contributions to the lines of political, cultural and educational inquiry which Hall pursued. www.stuarthallfoundation.org/projects/the...
The Stuart Hall Essay Prize - Stuart Hall Foundation
The Stuart Hall Foundation is pleased to invite submissions for the second Stuart Hall Essay Prize. Open to submissions from UK-based entrants aged 18 to 30 inclusive, the prize invites new and unpubl...
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November 20, 2024 at 8:55 PM