University English
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Represents university and college English depts in the UK
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Deadline reminder for @univeng.bsky.social funding scheme: 5pm on 10th November 2025.
Pleased to announce @univeng.bsky.social small funding scheme now open to members. UE will fund up to 20 projects up to £250 each to support research/pedagogy/continuing professional development activities in Lit, Lang, Creative Writing. See details here: universityenglish.ac.uk/englishcreat...
University English Funding
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October 31, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Deadline reminder for @univeng.bsky.social funding scheme: 5pm on 10th November 2025.
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Pleased to announce @univeng.bsky.social small funding scheme now open to members. UE will fund up to 20 projects up to £250 each to support research/pedagogy/continuing professional development activities in Lit, Lang, Creative Writing. See details here: universityenglish.ac.uk/englishcreat...
University English Funding
universityenglish.ac.uk
September 30, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Pleased to announce @univeng.bsky.social small funding scheme now open to members. UE will fund up to 20 projects up to £250 each to support research/pedagogy/continuing professional development activities in Lit, Lang, Creative Writing. See details here: universityenglish.ac.uk/englishcreat...
📚Join us on 30 Oct 2025 at Senate House for The History of English Studies in Britain symposium
🎤 Speakers include Carole Atherton, Gail Marshall, Ronan McDonald, Christopher Stray, Stuart Jones, & Stefan Collini
Free (booking required)👉 tinyurl.com/43z9mxnc
#EnglishStudies #Humanities #Literature
🎤 Speakers include Carole Atherton, Gail Marshall, Ronan McDonald, Christopher Stray, Stuart Jones, & Stefan Collini
Free (booking required)👉 tinyurl.com/43z9mxnc
#EnglishStudies #Humanities #Literature
The History of English Studies in Britain: a Symposium
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September 11, 2025 at 11:11 AM
📚Join us on 30 Oct 2025 at Senate House for The History of English Studies in Britain symposium
🎤 Speakers include Carole Atherton, Gail Marshall, Ronan McDonald, Christopher Stray, Stuart Jones, & Stefan Collini
Free (booking required)👉 tinyurl.com/43z9mxnc
#EnglishStudies #Humanities #Literature
🎤 Speakers include Carole Atherton, Gail Marshall, Ronan McDonald, Christopher Stray, Stuart Jones, & Stefan Collini
Free (booking required)👉 tinyurl.com/43z9mxnc
#EnglishStudies #Humanities #Literature
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Our call for reviewers might be of interest to...
@ireadoldbooks.bsky.social @mvsa.bsky.social @victorianpoetry.bsky.social @vsawc.bsky.social @thevicsoc.bsky.social @victorianreview.bsky.social @univeng.bsky.social @l19cmanmet.bsky.social @incsa.bsky.social @navsa.bsky.social
@ireadoldbooks.bsky.social @mvsa.bsky.social @victorianpoetry.bsky.social @vsawc.bsky.social @thevicsoc.bsky.social @victorianreview.bsky.social @univeng.bsky.social @l19cmanmet.bsky.social @incsa.bsky.social @navsa.bsky.social
September 10, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Our call for reviewers might be of interest to...
@ireadoldbooks.bsky.social @mvsa.bsky.social @victorianpoetry.bsky.social @vsawc.bsky.social @thevicsoc.bsky.social @victorianreview.bsky.social @univeng.bsky.social @l19cmanmet.bsky.social @incsa.bsky.social @navsa.bsky.social
@ireadoldbooks.bsky.social @mvsa.bsky.social @victorianpoetry.bsky.social @vsawc.bsky.social @thevicsoc.bsky.social @victorianreview.bsky.social @univeng.bsky.social @l19cmanmet.bsky.social @incsa.bsky.social @navsa.bsky.social
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TWO MORE SIGNATURES and we'll have 450 - every voice counts, you don't have to be an academic or involved with universities in any way <3
Please help. Please sign. I work on a part-time degree for mature students to study for a BA in English Literature & Community Engagement. Its direct access and designed for those who didn't or couldn't go to Uni at 18. Bristol plan to close it. We want to save it.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Save our pioneering widening participation undergraduate degree in English Literature and Community Engagement at the University of Bristol
19 August 2025
Dear Evelyn Welch (Vice-Chancellor)
cc Judith Squires (Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Provost), Tansy Jessop (Pro Vice-Chancellor for Education and Students)
The School of Humanities has ...
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August 24, 2025 at 12:55 PM
TWO MORE SIGNATURES and we'll have 450 - every voice counts, you don't have to be an academic or involved with universities in any way <3
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The programme for this symposium has just been announced and it looks superb! Featuring @laurajcleaver.bsky.social alongside IES fellows and students.
Book now!
09 September 2025–10 September 2025, 9:30 am–6:30 pm
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
Book now!
09 September 2025–10 September 2025, 9:30 am–6:30 pm
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
Built with books: shaping the shelves of the early modern library
This 2-day symposium will explore the rich field of early modern library studies, inviting fresh, interdisciplinary perspectives and methodologies to open up existing narratives and bodies of evidence...
www.ucl.ac.uk
August 21, 2025 at 11:20 AM
The programme for this symposium has just been announced and it looks superb! Featuring @laurajcleaver.bsky.social alongside IES fellows and students.
Book now!
09 September 2025–10 September 2025, 9:30 am–6:30 pm
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
Book now!
09 September 2025–10 September 2025, 9:30 am–6:30 pm
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
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Please circulate!
Please circulate!
The Ronald Blythe Fellowship is John Clare Society's new scheme awarding a PhD student focusing on Clare a £1000 bursary to support their work.
Please pass on - &/or contact me or Honorary Secretary of the Society, Karen Lakey, for further information:
johnclaresociety.wordpress.com/contact-us/
Please pass on - &/or contact me or Honorary Secretary of the Society, Karen Lakey, for further information:
johnclaresociety.wordpress.com/contact-us/
August 18, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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Hoorah for Héctor Bellerin (even if he was a Gooner).
Cool men read. Tell all the boys in your life. They need to hear it.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
Cool men read. Tell all the boys in your life. They need to hear it.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
‘Literature has completely changed my life’: footballer Héctor Bellerín’s reading list
Former Arsenal player wins admiration for his taste in books, but admits one novel defeated him
www.theguardian.com
July 19, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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An alert to all creatives using #WeTransfer. Basically, stop immediately! As of August, they will begin scraping everything you send for AI purposes (see the new paragraph in their Terms and Conditions below).
If, like me, you’re a voice artist, they’ll clone your voice. Avoid at all costs.
If, like me, you’re a voice artist, they’ll clone your voice. Avoid at all costs.
July 15, 2025 at 7:52 AM
An alert to all creatives using #WeTransfer. Basically, stop immediately! As of August, they will begin scraping everything you send for AI purposes (see the new paragraph in their Terms and Conditions below).
If, like me, you’re a voice artist, they’ll clone your voice. Avoid at all costs.
If, like me, you’re a voice artist, they’ll clone your voice. Avoid at all costs.
🥳 🙌 Massive congratulations to all 2025 English graduates 🎉 🥂 Really well done! To celebrate your achievements and looks forward to all that you'll achieve next, we've made this short video with our colleagues in @englishassociation.bsky.social :
drive.google.com/file/d/1StyA...
drive.google.com/file/d/1StyA...
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July 14, 2025 at 10:36 AM
🥳 🙌 Massive congratulations to all 2025 English graduates 🎉 🥂 Really well done! To celebrate your achievements and looks forward to all that you'll achieve next, we've made this short video with our colleagues in @englishassociation.bsky.social :
drive.google.com/file/d/1StyA...
drive.google.com/file/d/1StyA...
#EnglishCreates English, History, all the arts and humanities subjects are critical for all of our futures universityenglish.ac.uk/englishcreat...
July 14, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Huge thanks to Helen Smith wordsmith.bsky.social for an excellent English: Shared Futures conference. It was inspiring, exciting, and fun, and especially moving to hear so many friends and colleagues speaking about why and how English matters to them
Helen Smith (@wordsmith.bsky.social)
Professor, @UoYEnglish. Printer, @thinicepress.
Opinions mainly culled from the dustier corners of the sixenteenth century.
wordsmith.bsky.social
July 6, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Huge thanks to Helen Smith wordsmith.bsky.social for an excellent English: Shared Futures conference. It was inspiring, exciting, and fun, and especially moving to hear so many friends and colleagues speaking about why and how English matters to them
More from Birmingham - BCU this time - and some of the applications of managing large datasets www.bcu.ac.uk/research/eng...
June 17, 2025 at 8:12 AM
More from Birmingham - BCU this time - and some of the applications of managing large datasets www.bcu.ac.uk/research/eng...
Listen in to hear how Aston academics use linguistics skills to help solve crime
June 17, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Listen in to hear how Aston academics use linguistics skills to help solve crime
#EnglishCreates How researchers at Aston (www.aston.ac.uk/bss/social-s...) help with criminal investigations:
June 17, 2025 at 8:05 AM
#EnglishCreates How researchers at Aston (www.aston.ac.uk/bss/social-s...) help with criminal investigations:
We're really sorry to hear of the death of our dear colleague Professor Simon James.
From 2016-19, Simon was PI on the Arts Council England and Durham University collaboration, the Durham Commission on Creativity which investigated the benefits of creativity for young people.
From 2016-19, Simon was PI on the Arts Council England and Durham University collaboration, the Durham Commission on Creativity which investigated the benefits of creativity for young people.
June 16, 2025 at 9:00 PM
We're really sorry to hear of the death of our dear colleague Professor Simon James.
From 2016-19, Simon was PI on the Arts Council England and Durham University collaboration, the Durham Commission on Creativity which investigated the benefits of creativity for young people.
From 2016-19, Simon was PI on the Arts Council England and Durham University collaboration, the Durham Commission on Creativity which investigated the benefits of creativity for young people.
Championing Scots, influencing public policy, and working with communities and creatives
June 10, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Championing Scots, influencing public policy, and working with communities and creatives
More impact stories from #EnglishCreates including this project based in www.reading.ac.uk/english-lite... building local pride and championing working-class writers
More great work at: www.reading.ac.uk/english-lite...
More great work at: www.reading.ac.uk/english-lite...
June 10, 2025 at 3:26 PM
More impact stories from #EnglishCreates including this project based in www.reading.ac.uk/english-lite... building local pride and championing working-class writers
More great work at: www.reading.ac.uk/english-lite...
More great work at: www.reading.ac.uk/english-lite...
And yet more: creative writing colleagues at www.aber.ac.uk/en/english/ help patients with long covid. More evidence that English can help to create a better, healthier world #EnglishCreates
June 9, 2025 at 9:25 AM
And yet more: creative writing colleagues at www.aber.ac.uk/en/english/ help patients with long covid. More evidence that English can help to create a better, healthier world #EnglishCreates
How English at www.aber.ac.uk/en/english/ is helping the NHS #EnglishCreates
June 9, 2025 at 9:22 AM
How English at www.aber.ac.uk/en/english/ is helping the NHS #EnglishCreates
More great impact from www.aber.ac.uk/en/english/
bringing literature and literary opportunities to new groups
bringing literature and literary opportunities to new groups
June 9, 2025 at 9:20 AM
More great impact from www.aber.ac.uk/en/english/
bringing literature and literary opportunities to new groups
bringing literature and literary opportunities to new groups
#EnglishCreates impact across the UK every day.
Learn how this Aberystwyth's project on Expressions of Care helped to benefit communities
See more examples of English impact at universityenglish.ac.uk/englishcreat...
Learn how this Aberystwyth's project on Expressions of Care helped to benefit communities
See more examples of English impact at universityenglish.ac.uk/englishcreat...
June 4, 2025 at 12:46 PM
#EnglishCreates impact across the UK every day.
Learn how this Aberystwyth's project on Expressions of Care helped to benefit communities
See more examples of English impact at universityenglish.ac.uk/englishcreat...
Learn how this Aberystwyth's project on Expressions of Care helped to benefit communities
See more examples of English impact at universityenglish.ac.uk/englishcreat...
