Fuk Ying Tse
fytse.bsky.social
Fuk Ying Tse
@fytse.bsky.social
Lecturer in work and employment
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Hi Bluesky, I'm conducting research on the opportunities and challenges in the #UKHE sector that involuntarily displaced mid-career/senior academics face. Particularly interested in speaking to those in humanities and social sciences, regardless of their current employment status. 1/4 #academicsky
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Only three months ago, Human Geography at Leicester was ranked No.1 in the UK for overall positivity in the 2025 National Student Survey. Any decent university management would be fighting to keep them. In solidarity, please sign the petition: www.change.org/p/save-geogr...
Sign the Petition
Save Geography at the University of Leicester
www.change.org
November 7, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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Should business schools be trying harder to help businesses? My answer would be a definite no.
Try harder to help people, workers, citizens, society.
November 2, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Somehow I just find it really funny that people in Taiwan, Japan and South Korea tend to use AI for fortune telling more than the rest of the world
ig.ft.com/ai-personal-...
How AI became our personal assistant
New data shows the ways millions have integrated the technology into their everyday lives
ig.ft.com
October 7, 2025 at 11:22 AM
The story is strikingly similar to Hong Kong immigrants (or high-skilled individuals from any Global south country) relocating to the UK - see if the 'lack of local experience' becomes a problem in employers' initial screening of job applications for them

www.ft.com/content/64a3...
The US workers escaping for a career overseas
Unhappy under the Trump administration, some professionals are plotting an exit — but there are costs
www.ft.com
September 17, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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I wrote something about feeling like a guest in a country that is my home.

bestforbritain.substack.com/p/my-place-o...
My place or yours? - Flags and the far right from someone who looks different to you
By Alex Andreou
bestforbritain.substack.com
September 17, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.
August 10, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Temu anti-racism of Labour (thanks to @edgranter.bsky.social introducing me to the term I have used it twice today already...)
The Diane Abbott row shows how impoverished Britain’s conversations about race have become | Jason Okundaye
We should be able to discuss the different ways in which minorities are racialised in a thoughtful – and sometimes confronting – way, says Guardian writer Jason Okundaye
www.theguardian.com
July 18, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Acabei de descobrir que o goleirão do Auckland trabalha com empilhadeira em depósito de marketplace e ta preocupadíssimo com o campeonato ultrapassar o tempo sua licença das férias e ficar sem grana pra pagar as contas.

Muito gente como a gente
June 15, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Hi Bluesky, I'm conducting research on the opportunities and challenges in the #UKHE sector that involuntarily displaced mid-career/senior academics face. Particularly interested in speaking to those in humanities and social sciences, regardless of their current employment status. 1/4 #academicsky
June 2, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Hi Bluesky, I'm conducting research on the opportunities and challenges in the #UKHE sector that involuntarily displaced mid-career/senior academics face. Particularly interested in speaking to those in humanities and social sciences, regardless of their current employment status. 1/4 #academicsky
June 2, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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“The English have a fierce reputation for conquering the world.. invading loads of different countries and then getting upset when those people follow them home.”

- Tommy Tiernan
May 15, 2025 at 7:40 AM
The new #observer layout, both in print and online, is driving me nuts...
April 27, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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Francis very much looking like he’s in a Pet Shop Boys video here
April 21, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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II wrote about the Lib Dems' idea of stopping unwanted noise/music/speakerphones on public transport. No-one's said it yet, but this is a neurodivergence/autism issue maybeimamazed.substack.com/p/why-speake...
Why speakerphones and blaring music on public transport is a neurodivergence issue
The UK Liberal Democrats want to ban loud music, videos and phone calls on buses and trains. Respect to them
maybeimamazed.substack.com
April 24, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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Find us in Glasgow (9th May) and in London (12th May) for the launch of The Precarious Migrant Worker! @politybooks.bsky.social

More info here: interregnum.ghost.io/book-launch-...
Book launch: The Precarious Migrant Worker, Polity (Glasgow and London)
In the desert of neoliberal precarity, how do we struggle? We invite you to the book launches for The Precarious Migrant Worker: The Socialization of Precarity, taking place in Glasgow (9th of May 202...
interregnum.ghost.io
April 15, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Does anyone know if manual letter forward is still a thing for #royalmail? Aka cross over the name of the recipient who moved out, write down their new address and put it back into the mailbox.
April 5, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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a column on jordan henderson, and the double standards of English football’s leadership discourse

www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Why the double standards on ‘leadership’ when it comes to Black players? | Jonathan Liew
Jordan Henderson is a great English leader. But he has been encouraged and applauded for the very same acts for which minority ethnic players are castigated and stigmatised
www.theguardian.com
March 26, 2025 at 8:46 AM
3+ years of work finally done! Thank you Guglielmo, Elaine, all authors and reviewers for making this happen.

Hui, E. S., & Tse, F. Y. (2025). Industrial relations in Chinese multinational corporations in Europe: A regional lens. European Journal of Industrial Relations. doi.org/10.1177/0959...
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March 13, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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From celluloid to cinemas - Birmingham's contribution to film is surprisingly significant.

Today's members-only story is about the great Brummie inventors of the 20th Century, by Jon Neale.

www.birminghamdispatch.co.uk/lights-camer...
Lights! Camera! Edgbaston! How Birmingham supercharged the film industry
Celluloid and cinema created by Brummies brought the 20th Century to life
www.birminghamdispatch.co.uk
March 12, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Indeed!!! Watched it on Sunday evening and could not wait to recommend to students in class on Monday morning
Do yourself and Scottish cinema a favour and go see Laura Carreira’s tremendous debut ON FALLING opening weekend. Playing across the UK from tomorrow and very, very worth your time.
March 10, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Sans the music on loud speaker please, from a fellow cyclist
Not fast roads or fancy cars…Being able to safely cycle your kids home into the sunset on peaceful streets whilst listening to music is what makes a city liveable
February 27, 2025 at 11:17 PM
CfP: Inclusive Futures? 2025 Work Inclusivity Research Centre (WIRC) Research Conference, 7 May 2025, Birmingham.

Deadline for extended abstract: 10 March 2025
Work Inclusivity Research Centre (WIRC) - University of Birmingham
WIRC is based within Birmingham Business School but includes colleagues from across disciplines.
www.birmingham.ac.uk
February 27, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Next Department of Management seminar (26 Feb) by Prof Jan Ottosson, on the roles of unions and the employer's organisations during peacetime crises facing the Swedish steel and metal industries. Preceded by an Economic and Industrial Democracy meet-the-editor session. All are welcome.
Lost between state and business. Economic defence and the funding of metal stockpiling in Sweden, 1973–1987
Prof Jan Ottosson (Uppsala University) presents at the Birmingham Business School, Department of Management Research Seminar Series 2024/2025
www.birmingham.ac.uk
February 19, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Interesting
NEW: Project Reset - why Leicester City fans are taking action

“The notion that Leicester fans are entitled for expecting better on-field performances entirely misses the point. Let’s explore five reasons why”

#LCFC
Project Reset: Why Leicester City fans are taking action — The Fosse Way
On Saturday 15th February 2025, Leicester City fans will take to the streets to voice their frustrations with the club. Here are five reasons why.
www.thefosseway.net
February 13, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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I think today it is appropriate to read this essay by #MichaelBurawoy on #sociology:
burawoy.berkeley.edu/PS/Sociology...
Especially this last bit may provide some inspiration in these incipient dark times.

RIP Michael Burawoy
February 5, 2025 at 6:17 AM