Ashley
@ashley-mason.bsky.social
Researcher + Creative Practitioner //
Sheffield School of Architecture, UoS
Culture + Climate Change // Environmental Humanities
She/Her
Sheffield School of Architecture, UoS
Culture + Climate Change // Environmental Humanities
She/Her
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TBH this is the unspoken model we seem to be working towards. Maybe i'm an anomaly as a hums person in STEM dept. but I've explicitly heard people say "unfunded research doesn't count" "prioritise research grants not unfunded research" & ofc the quality of research is judged by the size of the grant
Ok, you can move to a fully-funded model where if you don't have external cash, you don't do any research. Or you can just hope ppl do research in their spare time (if there is any). But you're endangering the research base if you take away most time. A key dilemma. (2/2) www.gov.uk/government/s...
Jacqui Smith's speech at the Universities UK conference
Skills Minister Jacqui Smith delivers a speech at the Universities UK conference
www.gov.uk
September 12, 2024 at 9:18 AM
TBH this is the unspoken model we seem to be working towards. Maybe i'm an anomaly as a hums person in STEM dept. but I've explicitly heard people say "unfunded research doesn't count" "prioritise research grants not unfunded research" & ofc the quality of research is judged by the size of the grant
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'architectural education is a five-year training in visual representation and rhetorical obfuscation, with precious little time spent on learning how to actually make a building'
spot on by Oliver Wainwright
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/arti...
spot on by Oliver Wainwright
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/arti...
‘Professional buck-passers’: why the excoriating Grenfell report was right to damn architects
The ultimate responsibility for the tower’s safety lay with its architect, said the 1,700-page report, which highlighted a ‘widespread failure among the profession’. Why are so many architects now utt...
www.theguardian.com
September 6, 2024 at 7:22 AM
'architectural education is a five-year training in visual representation and rhetorical obfuscation, with precious little time spent on learning how to actually make a building'
spot on by Oliver Wainwright
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/arti...
spot on by Oliver Wainwright
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/arti...
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VERY special book review forum w/ @lauramenatti.bsky.social, @emmawaterton.bsky.social, Rosie ʻAnolani Alegado (kanaka ʻōiwi), tebrakunna country, Emma Lee, @niiyokamigaabaw.bsky.social, @timwaterman.bsky.social & Max Liboiron discussing Pollution is Colonialism!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Pollution Is Colonialism
Published in Landscape Research (Vol. 49, No. 3, 2024)
www.tandfonline.com
September 2, 2024 at 10:39 PM
VERY special book review forum w/ @lauramenatti.bsky.social, @emmawaterton.bsky.social, Rosie ʻAnolani Alegado (kanaka ʻōiwi), tebrakunna country, Emma Lee, @niiyokamigaabaw.bsky.social, @timwaterman.bsky.social & Max Liboiron discussing Pollution is Colonialism!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Palestinian Lebanese poet Randa Tawil’s “Poem for Gaza” meditates on the vertiginous experience of watching the Palestinian genocide unfold: “Time is bent,” she writes, “It has cracked open. Destiny is devouring us.”
proteanmag.com/2024/08/21/p...
proteanmag.com/2024/08/21/p...
Poem for Gaza
Palestinian Lebanese poet Randa Tawil's "Poem for Gaza" meditates on the vertiginous experience of watching the Palestinian genocide unfold: "Time is bent," she writes, "It has cracked open. Destiny i...
proteanmag.com
August 21, 2024 at 8:46 PM
Palestinian Lebanese poet Randa Tawil’s “Poem for Gaza” meditates on the vertiginous experience of watching the Palestinian genocide unfold: “Time is bent,” she writes, “It has cracked open. Destiny is devouring us.”
proteanmag.com/2024/08/21/p...
proteanmag.com/2024/08/21/p...
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Our roundtable on #envhum is blowing up! Registrations from across the 🌏
What are questions/topics you'd like to hear discussed W/ these experienced editors in #envhum?
Also would you listen to a recording of the conversations? I do have a nice Yeti microphone so tempted to give it a go...
What are questions/topics you'd like to hear discussed W/ these experienced editors in #envhum?
Also would you listen to a recording of the conversations? I do have a nice Yeti microphone so tempted to give it a go...
September 4, 2024 at 2:37 PM