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Ellie Munro
@elmunro.bsky.social
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Researcher. Voluntary and community action - history, policy, theory. @cdjplus.bsky.social board member. Former trade union bureaucrat and policy wonk. Brand: archives, institutions, community action, disability, Godzilla, wool. All snark mine.
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uniteucu.bsky.social
Being disabled shouldn’t mean you’re on a lower wage, or that you’re afraid to ask for support at work because it could hit you financially.

Having a reasonable adjustment should never lead to a pay cut.

But this is what’s happening to some UCU staff right now.

Short 🧵
October 31, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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peoplespapers.bsky.social
New archival research spotlight up on Instagram! Even featuring its own intro video 😍

Thanks to Rory and Real Time Video for sharing: www.instagram.com/p/DQejjL3jJ1...
October 31, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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historyworkshop.org.uk
What if friendship were understood not just on an individual, personal level, but as something political – a radical practice capable of upending hierarchies and producing revolutionary social change?

Laura C. Forster and Joel White reflect on radical friendship and everyday solidarities.
Friends in Common
How might we reassess friendship as a transformative, even revolutionary, political resource?
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
October 30, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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holsmith.bsky.social
My book UP IN THE AIR: A HISTORY OF HIGH-RISE BRITAIN is out today!
October 28, 2025 at 9:41 AM
elmunro.bsky.social
(Don't know why I'm posting in a Fifer accent today but here we are)
October 30, 2025 at 9:52 AM
elmunro.bsky.social
Youse should probably unionise, ey
thirdsector.co.uk Third Sector @thirdsector.co.uk · 16d
Cat Ross: Across our public sector we have seen the fight for recognition of value, primarily in the fight for fairer wages. How have nurses, doctors, bin men and teachers achieved this? Strikes!

What would happen to our society if charities went on a mass strike?
Cat Ross: Imagine a world where charities took mass strike action
Our country’s social security system is broken and charities are constantly picking up the pieces – but how much longer can we be the sticking plaster?
www.thirdsector.co.uk
October 30, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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oneplacestudies.bsky.social
In [Archive reveals hidden history of Frating Hall Farm community[(www.essexrecordofficeblog.co.uk/frating-hall...), Essex Record Office announces the launch of a new archive that sheds light on one of Britain’s largest and longest-running pacifist communities: Frating Hall Farm. #OnePlaceWednesday
Archive reveals hidden history of Frating Hall Farm community
The Essex Record Office is proud to announce the launch of a new archive that sheds light on one of Britain’s largest and longest-running pacifist communities: Frating Hall Farm, active from 1943 t…
www.essexrecordofficeblog.co.uk
October 29, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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civilsociety.bsky.social
Around 550 Shelter employees are being balloted for industrial action in a dispute over pay and working conditions, including its refusal to offer a four-day working week
Shelter staff balloted on strike action as charity decides against four-day week
www.civilsociety.co.uk
October 29, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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runnymedetrust.bsky.social
Far too often, medical schools leave Black heritage students feeling persistently unwelcome. We need to move beyond mere inclusion towards genuine and lasting belonging, writes Carl Kulimushi, a student at the University of Manchester.

New on our blog ✍️ www.runnymedetrust.org/blog/getting...
Getting in but not getting on
Despite efforts to widen access to the medical profession for under-represented groups, Black students still face a host of barriers. It’s time for medical education to move beyond simply opening door...
www.runnymedetrust.org
October 29, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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grindrod.bsky.social
Let's take a ride... My next book is coming out with @faberbooks.bsky.social. Tales of the Suburbs: LGBTQ+ Lives Behind Net Curtains will be published March 12 2026. Preorder links in profile, and lots more on the book and the remarkable stories people told me to come over the next few months...
Cover of a book: Tales of the Suburbs: LGBTQ+ Lives Behind Net Curtains by John Grindrod
October 28, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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hpsvanessa.bsky.social
Bins update: the 2nd largest city in the UK hasn't had domestic recycling services for ~11 months. Our city council is so incompetent that agency staff who have been brought in to do part of the striking bin workers' labour are *themselves* balloting for strike action
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
October 27, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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transsolidarity.bsky.social
Help us bring festive joy to trans youth at the end of a difficult year. Support Trans Secret Santa!

Fundraising links below 👇
October 24, 2025 at 12:42 PM
elmunro.bsky.social
Man I forgot I started making 'collect them all' badges for the cyclical voluntary sector policy reviews while I was doing my PhD. What a nerd - no wonder it took me 6 years to finish. drive.google.com/file/d/1gsxQ...
TLDR Blog.pdf
drive.google.com
October 23, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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qmucu.bsky.social
HR departments are finishing their calculations of the harm done by Clearing, it seems…

This is completely unsustainable; we can’t drastically adjust our staffing every single autumn in response to the volatility of the recruitment cycle. #SaveHE #UKHE

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MOST RECENT UPDATES (in the past fortnight, approximately; last updated 16 October 2025) Brunel is again facing compulsory redundancies Derby proposed 200 redundancies Edge Hill made compulsory redundancies over the Summer Glasgow Caledonian has its mutual severance scheme opened for the third time and is teaching out multiple courses. They’re under a UKVI-imposed plan. Queen Margaret University in Edinburgh is going through its second voluntary redundancy scheme Staffordshire is cutting jobs for the third consecutive year Teesside is trying to get rid of one third of lecturers in four schools by the end of the month.
October 16, 2025 at 1:25 PM
elmunro.bsky.social
Got a big deficit caused by dodgy business decisions that you keep using as an excuse to restructure bits of your university that you personally don't understand so must just be worthless? Time to hire a management consultant at the cost of several academic & PS staff! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOY189/d...
Director of Operational Improvement at Sheffield Hallam University
Apply for the Director of Operational Improvement job on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for professional services positions in higher education.
www.jobs.ac.uk
October 9, 2025 at 12:30 PM
elmunro.bsky.social
More for the "PhDs I wish I'd done" collection. Alas, I'm away, but it looks like a fab event - go because I can't!
mcrhistories.bsky.social Manchester Histories @mcrhistories.bsky.social · Oct 6
The People’s Papers: Revisiting 1970s Manchester

Explore the activist & community print culture that helped shape Greater Manchester, with PhD researcher Arielle Lawson (@peoplespapers)

📅 Mon 4 Nov
🕕 6–8 PM
📍 Manchester Histories Hub, Central Library
Free & open to all! Book: bit.ly/PeoplesPapers
Images of local newspapers.
October 7, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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peoplespapers.bsky.social
Save the date!

We'll have materials to share from @wcmlibrary.bsky.social and @aiucentre.bsky.social and a roundtable discussion with folks sharing their reflections and experiences from the time. Should be a lively and participatory discussion!

@cperguom.bsky.social @thejohnrylands.bsky.social
mcrhistories.bsky.social Manchester Histories @mcrhistories.bsky.social · Oct 6
The People’s Papers: Revisiting 1970s Manchester

Explore the activist & community print culture that helped shape Greater Manchester, with PhD researcher Arielle Lawson (@peoplespapers)

📅 Mon 4 Nov
🕕 6–8 PM
📍 Manchester Histories Hub, Central Library
Free & open to all! Book: bit.ly/PeoplesPapers
Images of local newspapers.
October 6, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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ihrblackbritish.bsky.social
The IHR Black British History seminar series is now on BlueSky!

Follow us for updates and keep your eyes peeled for information about our upcoming seminars 👀

@ihr.bsky.social #BlackBritishHistory #historians #academia
Photograph of the Black People’s Day of Action, March 1981
September 25, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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theironroom.bsky.social
#BirminghamHistory today brings you these hand-made playing cards drawn and painted on the back of cards advertising an anti-slavery meeting held at Birmingham Town Hall on 22 January 1873. Ref - MS 1509/5/69 #LibraryofBham #bmusic_ltd
Three playing cards. The two in the background have colour illustrations - the one on the left had a heart in the top left corner and a drawing of a young female figure blowing a musical instrument. The card on the right has a spade in the top left corner along with an illustration of the white rabbit from Alice in Wonderland. In the foreground is another card with text detailing an anti – slavery meeting taking place at Birmingham Town Hall on 22 January 1873.
September 25, 2025 at 8:01 AM
elmunro.bsky.social
Nice of the landscapers round the new SHU buildings to give us a literal rallying point
A black cube, maybe intended as a bench, or just an arty installation, inscribed with the words "solidarity with workers; solidarity with strikes; solidarity forever; for the many not the few". With additions of UCU stickers.
September 25, 2025 at 8:43 AM
elmunro.bsky.social
Went to see From Ground Zero this evening, made in Palestine in 2024 by Palestinian film makers. More here: www.watermelonpictures.com/films/from-g...
Watermelon Pictures
www.watermelonpictures.com
September 24, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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qmucu.bsky.social
At our Emergency General Meeting, our branch unanimously voted in support of this solidarity motion with @uniteucu.bsky.social. This behaviour by @ucu.org.uk senior management is unacceptable and threatens the entire @tuc.org.uk movement.

Read in full:
qmucu.org/2025/09/24/b...
The branch resolves: To write to the General Secretary seeking the immediate withdrawal of any threat of deductions for ASOS made to Unite UCU members. To submit a complaint to NEC and make a representation to NEC seeking an agreement that punitive deductions for ASOS should not be used by UCU because it is damaging to all UCU members, as well as to the particular ongoing campaign by QMUCU members to seek restitution and damages against our employer. If no agreement can be reached, to make a second representation to NEC asking NEC to exercise rule 2.11 and, if needed, instruct the GS under rule 28.2 to withdraw the threat of punitive deductions for ASOS made to Unite UCU members. To write to UCU legal services seeking urgent clarification on how the union will handle the disparity between supporting QMUCU members to challenge punitive deductions and enacting them against UCU staff. To write to the TUC General Council calling for an investigation of the conduct of UCU SMT in accordance with TUC Rules 12, 13, and 14, in coordination with Unite-UCU.
September 24, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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cdjplus.bsky.social
Audrey Jamal and Jordan Scholten write in our July issue on community wealth-building in mid-size Canadian cities, and the lack of embeddedness of CWB practice in economic development policy buff.ly/5lHHEPe #CDJ #CWB
Deployment and development of community wealth building in Canadian mid-sized cities
Abstract. In the early 2000s, community wealth building (CWB) emerged as a renewed approach to local economic development. By design, CWB aims to democrati
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September 24, 2025 at 12:20 PM