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Cinzia Priola
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Prof of Work and Organisation Studies, The Open University. Posts in personal capacity. Repost not endorsements. Italian & Sardinian in UK. Work Homepage: https://www.open.ac.uk/people/vp3444
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Just out #OpenAccess co-authored with Shafaq Chaudhry, Spatial Modesty: The Everyday Production of Gendered Space in Segregated and Assimilative Organizations @JMS onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Spatial Modesty: The Everyday Production of Gendered Space in Segregated and Assimilative Organizations
This article explores the relations between organizational spatiality, gender and religion-informed cultural practices. Theoretically grounded in Lefebvre's spatial theory and informed by Islamic fem...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
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October 27, 2025 at 4:42 PM
RIP Jane Goodall. “We have a window of time to change this planet’s course, but it’s rapidly closing,”
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Jane Goodall, world-renowned primatologist, dies aged 91
Jane Goodall Institute says ‘tireless advocate’ for natural world died in California during US speaking tour
www.theguardian.com
October 2, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Italy's largest union, with over 5.5 million workers, has called a general strike for Friday in solidarity with the Global Sumud Flotilla.

And smaller Italian unions have said they will join CGIL's general strike.
October 1, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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First students evacuated from Gaza to study in UK

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
First students evacuated from Gaza to study in UK
The group includes at least four medical doctors who have places to study at UK universities.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 21, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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Italian photographer Valerio Minato spent six years planning a perfectly aligned shot of the Moon with Turin’s Basilica of Superga and Monviso. Weather delays thwarted annual chances until December 2023, when a crescent Moon with visible da Vinci glow completed his long-envisioned composition
September 1, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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📣UNRISD Annual Report 2024 is out!

This year, we:

🌍 Informed the road to the #WSSD2

⚖️Championed care economies + just transition solutions

🌱Boosted SSE & sustainability metrics

💬Elevated global South voices within global policy forums

Read now: www.unrisd.org/annual-repor...
June 25, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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DO EVERYTHING YOU CAN TO GET FOOD AND WATER IN TO GAZA.
This is from Lemkin Institute begging..... we are all begging.
July 21, 2025 at 9:57 PM
📢CfP We invite scholars to submit contributions that challenge ableist norms in organisations to reframe understandings of episodic disability, chronic and long-term health conditions in relation to gender, work, social justice, ethics of care
pij3.puntoorginternationaljournal.org/index.php/PI...
Call for papers: Understanding the Impact of Episodic Disabilities, Chronic and Long-Term Health Conditions on Women’s Work Across Cultures and National Contexts | puntOorg International Jou...
pij3.puntoorginternationaljournal.org
July 21, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Honoured to be part of the new journal #FeminismandOrganization, with a team of outstanding scholars from across the globe.
New for 2026: Feminism and Organization
The journal will publish work that challenges structural inequalities rooted in patriarchal systems, especially within the realm of work.
Edited by @profalisonpullen.bsky.social‬ & @nela-smolovic.bsky.social
bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/new-journal-...
July 21, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Media article of our study on 'gendered space in financial institutions in Pakistan' -- with Shafaq Chaudhry | EurekAlert! www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
Study assesses "gendered space" in financial institutions in Pakistan
Research published in the Journal of Management Studies examines the significance of purdah (spatial modesty) in gender relations in financial institutions in Pakistan.
www.eurekalert.org
June 5, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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The 12-person crew, including climate activist Greta Thunberg, is expected to reach Gaza on June 7.
Who’s onboard the Madleen Gaza flotilla, and where has it reached so far?
The 12-person crew, including climate activist Greta Thunberg, is expected to reach Gaza on June 7.
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June 3, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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The rule has complicated the legal framework while exacerbating the oppression of trans and non binary people. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The supreme court didn’t rule on the definition of ‘a woman’ – this is what its judgment does mean | Sam Fowles
The judges had to interpret the law as set down by parliament. But it must be remembered this is not an abstract debate; it concerns real people, says barrister Sam Fowles
www.theguardian.com
April 18, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Just stumbled across this YouTube video summarising one of my papers with Shafaq Chaudhry in the Journal of Management Studies
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bqyo...
Spatial Modesty (Chaudhry and Priola, 2024)
YouTube video by Mayukh Mukhopadhyay
www.youtube.com
April 15, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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The UK car industry contributes £22bn to the economy and employs c 35k people.

Universities contribute £265bn and employ nearly 400k, over 10x as much.

Yet he seems ok to let that sector implode.
"My choice in these volatile times is backing British brilliance," says Keir Starmer, who promises to deliver "British cars for British workers"
April 9, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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This. An emergency recall of parliament on a weekend for British Steel. Nothing at all for UK HE which employs far more people, has already shed 10,000 academic jobs, with several institutions on the brink of collapse.

A reminder: we train all the doctors, teachers, engineers, nurses, lawyers &c &c
British Steel employs 3.6k people. Coventry Uni group, which auditors say may not survive, employs 7.7k. But there is an emergency debate in parliament for British Steel and nothing for the whole HE sector imploding
Why is the government and the news so indifferent to the meltdown happening in UK #HigherEd right now?

Our universities are the envy of the world. Yet we are at risk of losing a generation of academics and damaging the sector beyond repair.
April 12, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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Trump is pushing students towards Britain – ministers, don’t let your immigration obsession stand in the way | Polly Toynbee
Trump is pushing students towards Britain – ministers, don’t let your immigration obsession stand in the way | Polly Toynbee
Beleaguered UK universities have a golden opportunity. If the government passes it up, it risks billions in revenue, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
www.theguardian.com
April 11, 2025 at 5:35 AM
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April 5, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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"This is a military strategy aiming to ethnically cleanse what remains of Palestine."

UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories Francesca Albanese speaks to @krishgm.bsky.social after Israel's latest attacks on the Gaza Strip.

Read and watch here:
‘We have failed to prevent genocide’ – Francesca Albanese
We spoke to the UN Special Rapporteur for the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Francesca Albanese, for the Fourcast podcast.
www.channel4.com
March 19, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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Israeli attacks on women’s healthcare in Gaza amount to ‘genocidal acts’, UN says
Israeli attacks on women’s healthcare in Gaza amount to ‘genocidal acts’, UN says
Report details attacks and abuses that ‘destroyed in part the reproductive capacity of Palestinians in Gaza as a group’ Israel’s systemic attacks on women’s healthcare in Gaza amount to “genocidal acts”, and Israeli security forces have used sexual…
www.theguardian.com
March 13, 2025 at 4:48 PM