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Dr Jessica Gagnon
@jessgagnon.bsky.social
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Lecturer University of Manchester Sociologist of #Inequalities #HigherEd #STEM #FirstGen #WorkingClass #Feminist #BwiththeT #Bi #LGBTQIA she/her - views mine
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juliecupples79.bsky.social
Nearly 100 years after her death, Oxford’s first female Indigenous scholar honoured
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Nearly 100 years after her death, Oxford’s first female Indigenous scholar honoured
Mākereti Papakura died weeks before handing in her thesis at Oxford university documenting the life and customs of her tribe, work that is still used by Māori today
www.theguardian.com
October 2, 2025 at 10:54 AM
jessgagnon.bsky.social
#BERA2025 starting now with BERA President @drmoncrieffe.bsky.social opening the keynote panel: What is being done and what must be continued for advancing the power of anti-racism and decoloniality in educational research, policy and practice across the four UK nations?
Photo from the BERA conference featuring a full lecture hall of hundreds of conference attendees while the opening slide of the keynote panel for the conference is in view
September 9, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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erinearly.bsky.social
As @beranews.bsky.social Research Methodologies SIG Co-Convenor with @dramandan.bsky.social, we are delighted to be delivering a workshop with colleagues from the Social Justice SIG at #BERA2025 conference in September.

Details below ⬇️

✉️ Feel free to get in touch with any questions.
BERA 2025 Conference Workshop. Beyond 'happily ever after': the potential of narrative methods for social justice research in education. Happening on 10/09/25 at 11.15am at the BERA Conference.
July 24, 2025 at 2:15 PM
jessgagnon.bsky.social
Are you attending BERA in Brighton #BERA2025?

On Wed 9am @marcoreggiani.bsky.social & I are presenting

Who has the time? Clocking the hidden burdens impacting LGBTQ+ and women researchers in STEM

Including findings from EPSRC funded STEM Equals and RSC & UKSIN funded LGBTQual+
Screenshot of a PowerPoint title slide for presentation titled Who has the time? Clocking the hidden burdens impacting LGBTQ+ and women researchers in STEM. Presented by Drs Jessica Gagnon and Marco Reggiani. The image features a pale yellow background on the right side with geometric rainbow pattern on the left side. Logos from two research projects, STEM Equals and LGBTQUAL+, and logos from project funders EPSRC, Royal Society of Chemistry, and UK Science and Innovation Network are included.
September 4, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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ignitenetplus.bsky.social
🔍 Survey Call - We Need Your Voice! 🔍

The @ignitenetplus.bsky.social survey to advance Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) in #STEM and #Energy #research sector is live

👥STEM Researchers
🔗https://tinyurl.com/yx8u6uyx
📢 Please share to help us reach a wide audience

#EDI #Inclusion #YourVoice
Promotional graphic for a survey - text reads 'Call for Participants: IGNITE’s EDI in STEM and the Energy Research Sector Survey.' The image features logos for IGNITE Network+ and UKRI EPSRC at the top. A large speech bubble contains the survey title. To the right, a hand holds a smartphone displaying a QR code with the label 'SCAN ME.' The background includes illustrations of diverse individuals and scientific icons like light bulbs, gears, molecules, and hydrogen symbols (H2).
July 2, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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edicaucus.bsky.social
Do you work in the UK's research & innovation sector? Have you experienced or witnessed bullying and/or sexual harassment? Take our survey to share your experiences: go.hw.ac.uk/EDICa/Bullyi...

#BSL interpretation below by @jeminanapier.bsky.social. #BritishSignLanguage

youtu.be/0HjJoGviic8
Call for Participants in BSL - Bullying & Sexual Harassment Survey
YouTube video by EDI Caucus
youtu.be
June 13, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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suttontrust.bsky.social
💬 "Improving access to university for disadvantaged young people, particularly those in the ‘left behind’ parts of the country, must be seen as a priority."

@ericaholtwhite.bsky.social draws on our new research to explore differences in access to university ⬇️

www.suttontrust.com/news-opinion...
The Opportunity Index – What does it tell us about access to HE? - The Sutton Trust
Looking at access to university using our latest region-level and constituency-level data.
www.suttontrust.com
May 22, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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Retracting the ability to host students has long been the threat wielded by the federal government over colleges and universities. It has never been exercised against an accredited non-profit institution that I know of. I study HE through the politics of noncitizen students: this is THE concern.
Trump Administration Halts Harvard’s Ability to Enroll International Students
www.nytimes.com
May 22, 2025 at 5:56 PM
jessgagnon.bsky.social
Join me in supporting a small local charity doing really important work in our #Salford community 💟

www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-salfo...

#SalfordStepIntoAction #Community #Together
Help Salford Step into Action Food Club
We want to raise money to help enable us to continue our vital services to our community especially our weekly food club.
www.crowdfunder.co.uk
February 15, 2025 at 9:49 AM
jessgagnon.bsky.social
NDAs have kept serial abusers & the employers who protect them free from accountability for the harm they have caused for far too long.

It is absolutely time for a reckoning.

Headline: Labour considering ban on use of NDAs to hush up sexual misconduct at work

www.theguardian.com/law/2025/jan...
Labour considering ban on use of NDAs to hush up sexual misconduct at work
Ministers prepared to back change in law to prohibit misuse of gagging clauses by employers, it is understood
www.theguardian.com
January 18, 2025 at 3:25 PM
jessgagnon.bsky.social
Pls Share

Out now: The Guide to LGBTQ+ Research

Chapter by me @jessgagnon.bsky.social & @marcoreggiani.bsky.social titled Sharing Queer knowledge in a heteronormative world

Editors @dradambrett.bsky.social & @profcatherinelee.bsky.social

bookstore.emerald.com/the-guide-to...
Book cover of The Guide to LGBTQ+ Research edited by Dr Adam Brett & Professor Catherine Lee featuring a rainvow lightbulb with a the outline of a brain inside
January 14, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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genderanded.bsky.social
🚨SAVE THE DATE🚨
GEA Conference 2025 | May 27–30 | Manchester Metropolitan Uni
Join us to explore re-routing, diversifying & trans*forming routes to, through and within gender & education. Call for abstracts is now open, deadline 20th Dec 2024. For further info: www.mmu.ac.uk/about-us/fac...
November 28, 2024 at 1:48 PM
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koenvanlaer.bsky.social
Call for papers for #EGOS2025 of Sub-theme 02: #EDI in Difficult Times: Organizing Solidarity beyond Opposition and Resistance
Convenors: Zeynep Gülru Göker, Yvonne W.M. Benschop, Jasmin Mahadevan
Part of SWG2: Pushing the Boundaries of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
www.egos.org/jart/prj3/eg...
EGOS - SUB-THEMES [main Colloquium]: Call for Short Papers - European Group for Organizational Studies
www.egos.org
November 17, 2024 at 7:47 PM
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timeshighered.bsky.social
Men are more likely to evade academic service tasks, such as organising seminars, supervising PhDs or participating in committees, while women feel obliged to take them on, a new study has found

#AcademicSky #EduSky #highered
How men get away with dodging ‘academic housework’
Women expected to be ‘organisational team-players’ while male colleagues ‘allowed to pursue their individual career interests’
www.timeshighereducation.com
April 23, 2024 at 9:08 AM
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kalwantbhopal.bsky.social
This has also been my experience, but what is more disturbing is receiving this kind of abuse from within our own academic communities #race #gender #symbolicviolence
kalwantbhopal.bsky.social Kalwant Bhopal @kalwantbhopal.bsky.social · Nov 17
Sunny Singh: 'Twitter has never been safe for minoritised people and, as a woman of colour, my experience of the platform has always been vitiated by an overarching sense of violence: gendered, racialised and sexualised abuse has always been commonplace there'.
www.opendemocracy.net/en/twitter-b...
Leaving Twitter says more about you than Elon Musk
OPINION: The platform was already a haven for abuse. What could be taken away is structural privilege, not safety
www.opendemocracy.net
November 17, 2024 at 11:06 AM
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izzyfox.bsky.social
PSA for newbies:

Please include ALT text on your images.

This is an inclusive space for blind and visually impaired people.

Don't arrive late to the party and ignore a bunch of people.

Also, please share this skeet, rather than liking it, to ensure the message gets delivered.

Thanks!
November 16, 2024 at 12:18 PM
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acescicomm.bsky.social
Hey #AceInSTEM folks - I'm doing a talk next week about asexuality for a LGBTQ+ STEM Day event. I like to include other perspectives in my talks and if you would like to share your anonymously, you can do so through this form: forms.gle/RXbLC5HD2d17...
Ace in STEM experience
Responses on this form will be used for a talk I will be giving on the 20th November 2024 and any future talks. If you would like me to delete any responses at any time, please get in touch with me di...
forms.gle
November 16, 2024 at 6:07 PM
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kalwantbhopal.bsky.social
Keep reading, keep downloading!!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Complicity and Conformity: perpetuating race and class hierarchies in UK higher education
Drawing on tenets of Critical Race Theory such as Whiteness, interest convergence, intersectionality and White supremacy this paper examines how some academics of colour are able to accelerate thei...
www.tandfonline.com
November 15, 2024 at 9:23 PM
jessgagnon.bsky.social
Check out the MIE starter pack.
Let me know who needs to be added

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November 14, 2024 at 10:16 PM
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jessicaringrose.bsky.social
GEA Conference 2025 coming to Manchester!
November 14, 2024 at 4:55 AM
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tigslater.bsky.social
Pleased to share the 'Whose Rainbow?' research project report! We asked LGBT+ students, staff & those considering themselves 'allies' what they thought of the use of LGBT+ symbolism in universities.
Full report here: shura.shu.ac.uk/34366/1/2024...

Or continue this thread for the headlines... 1/8
shura.shu.ac.uk
November 13, 2024 at 10:02 AM