Kathryn Telling
@kathryn-telling.bsky.social
Lecturer in Education at the University of Manchester. Higher education, elitism and moral sociology.
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The government's lack of any plan for Higher Education means that 1 in 7 Bristolians is now a student. The city's housing crisis is out of control and it's 20,000 beds short even in terms of student dwellings. Nothing will be done.
www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol...
www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol...
Pros and cons of Bristol's university boom as students set to return
Tens of thousands of students will be arriving in Bristol in the coming weeks
www.bristolpost.co.uk
August 23, 2025 at 11:16 AM
The government's lack of any plan for Higher Education means that 1 in 7 Bristolians is now a student. The city's housing crisis is out of control and it's 20,000 beds short even in terms of student dwellings. Nothing will be done.
www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol...
www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol...
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Delighted to see this paper out, co-written with Julia Loginovic where we think about what the #SDGs mean. Rather than concern for their apparent failure we argue they do exactly what they're supposed to: commodify and socialise ever more parts of the world under so-called "neoliberal" hegemony ...
Early View Article
United Nations 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals: Hybrid Institutional Complexes as Hegemony-Building?
www.globalpolicyjournal.com/articles/cli...
United Nations 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals: Hybrid Institutional Complexes as Hegemony-Building?
www.globalpolicyjournal.com/articles/cli...
August 19, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Delighted to see this paper out, co-written with Julia Loginovic where we think about what the #SDGs mean. Rather than concern for their apparent failure we argue they do exactly what they're supposed to: commodify and socialise ever more parts of the world under so-called "neoliberal" hegemony ...
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We stand w/ 200+ orgs rejecting weaponising violence against women & girls for anti-migrant agendas. Govt & media fuel racist narratives pitting survivors & migrants against each other. Falsehoods like these don’t keep women safe, they distract from tackling gender-based violence.
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Linking sex attacks to migration is 'dangerous racist diversion' warning
In a letter to Keir Starmer and Yvette Cooper, organisations including Rape Crisis England and Wales, the End Violence Against Women Coalition and Refuge called on ministers to stand up to the 'dangerous narrative'
www.mirror.co.uk
August 19, 2025 at 3:41 PM
We stand w/ 200+ orgs rejecting weaponising violence against women & girls for anti-migrant agendas. Govt & media fuel racist narratives pitting survivors & migrants against each other. Falsehoods like these don’t keep women safe, they distract from tackling gender-based violence.
t.co/50I5sp1kCI
t.co/50I5sp1kCI
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There are cool campaigning materials from #UCU/@ucu.org.uk
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1412...
Also worth looking at for some depth is the independent report by @beccaeharrison.bsky.social and @davidharvie.bsky.social "Hidden redundancies"
zenodo.org/records/1563...
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1412...
Also worth looking at for some depth is the independent report by @beccaeharrison.bsky.social and @davidharvie.bsky.social "Hidden redundancies"
zenodo.org/records/1563...
New materials highlighting #HiddenRedundancies
As part of our campaign against casualisation and cuts in further and higher education, UCU's Anti-Casualisation Committee, in collaboration with UCU member Thoko Kamwendo, has developed a series of l...
www.ucu.org.uk
August 14, 2025 at 5:02 PM
There are cool campaigning materials from #UCU/@ucu.org.uk
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1412...
Also worth looking at for some depth is the independent report by @beccaeharrison.bsky.social and @davidharvie.bsky.social "Hidden redundancies"
zenodo.org/records/1563...
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1412...
Also worth looking at for some depth is the independent report by @beccaeharrison.bsky.social and @davidharvie.bsky.social "Hidden redundancies"
zenodo.org/records/1563...
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🎓 40 brilliant Palestinian students have pushed through war, loss & destruction - just for the chance to study.
Now UK bureaucracy is standing in their way.
✍️ Students & alumni: sign & share the open letter.
We’re at 3,000 - let’s hit 10,000 by Sunday.
🔗 linktr.ee/thegaza40
#Gaza40
Now UK bureaucracy is standing in their way.
✍️ Students & alumni: sign & share the open letter.
We’re at 3,000 - let’s hit 10,000 by Sunday.
🔗 linktr.ee/thegaza40
#Gaza40
August 7, 2025 at 6:41 PM
🎓 40 brilliant Palestinian students have pushed through war, loss & destruction - just for the chance to study.
Now UK bureaucracy is standing in their way.
✍️ Students & alumni: sign & share the open letter.
We’re at 3,000 - let’s hit 10,000 by Sunday.
🔗 linktr.ee/thegaza40
#Gaza40
Now UK bureaucracy is standing in their way.
✍️ Students & alumni: sign & share the open letter.
We’re at 3,000 - let’s hit 10,000 by Sunday.
🔗 linktr.ee/thegaza40
#Gaza40
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Call for Full Papers
Sociology is looking for papers that engage with the question of normativity in sociology.
Deadline for full paper submission is 22 January 2026. Read the full CFP now.
www.britsoc.co.uk/media/26815/...
Sociology is looking for papers that engage with the question of normativity in sociology.
Deadline for full paper submission is 22 January 2026. Read the full CFP now.
www.britsoc.co.uk/media/26815/...
August 8, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Call for Full Papers
Sociology is looking for papers that engage with the question of normativity in sociology.
Deadline for full paper submission is 22 January 2026. Read the full CFP now.
www.britsoc.co.uk/media/26815/...
Sociology is looking for papers that engage with the question of normativity in sociology.
Deadline for full paper submission is 22 January 2026. Read the full CFP now.
www.britsoc.co.uk/media/26815/...
Great to see the inaugural issue of the Journal of Global Higher Education out, ed. by @jlmittelmeier.bsky.social @selomer42.bsky.social @cmathies.bsky.social & @melwhat.bsky.social. A new model for rigorous, open-access publishing. @educationuom.bsky.social journal.libraries.wm.edu/global_highe...
Vol. 1 No. 1 (2025): Inaugural Issue
| Journal of Global Higher Education
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July 31, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Great to see the inaugural issue of the Journal of Global Higher Education out, ed. by @jlmittelmeier.bsky.social @selomer42.bsky.social @cmathies.bsky.social & @melwhat.bsky.social. A new model for rigorous, open-access publishing. @educationuom.bsky.social journal.libraries.wm.edu/global_highe...
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Just a reminder that the Edinburgh redundancies are, to all evidence, ones purely of choice. They are not cash strapped or likely to be. They just aren’t making as much surplus as they’d like.
June 22, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Just a reminder that the Edinburgh redundancies are, to all evidence, ones purely of choice. They are not cash strapped or likely to be. They just aren’t making as much surplus as they’d like.
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The Government promised a 4% pay rise but is only funding under 3%. That leaves schools with a £600 million shortfall, which will mean more cuts to vital services.
Schools can’t afford more cuts.✂️
Vote here.👉 NEUActivate.com
#FundFairPay #SaveOurSchools
Schools can’t afford more cuts.✂️
Vote here.👉 NEUActivate.com
#FundFairPay #SaveOurSchools
June 22, 2025 at 2:03 PM
The Government promised a 4% pay rise but is only funding under 3%. That leaves schools with a £600 million shortfall, which will mean more cuts to vital services.
Schools can’t afford more cuts.✂️
Vote here.👉 NEUActivate.com
#FundFairPay #SaveOurSchools
Schools can’t afford more cuts.✂️
Vote here.👉 NEUActivate.com
#FundFairPay #SaveOurSchools
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"Many AI literacy programs are billed as preparing all students for a future where AI is ubiquitous. But to truly empower all students, any form of literacy must be grounded in history – particularly history told from the viewpoints of non-dominant groups" - Evan Shieh at @civicsoftech.bsky.social.
Stop calling it “AI literacy” if it doesn’t teach history — Civics of Technology
Underneath a futuristic veneer, large language models (and their makers) tell stories that perpetuate familiar stereotypes and repackage dangerous imperialist ideologies. Yet, ironically, most AI lite...
www.civicsoftechnology.org
June 22, 2025 at 2:44 PM
"Many AI literacy programs are billed as preparing all students for a future where AI is ubiquitous. But to truly empower all students, any form of literacy must be grounded in history – particularly history told from the viewpoints of non-dominant groups" - Evan Shieh at @civicsoftech.bsky.social.
I've just stood down as external examiner for Newcastle University's BA Education. This excellent degree, its hard-working students and talented staff deserve so much more than the behaviour of the University management to date. Solidarity with all striking @newcastleucu.bsky.social colleagues.
June 18, 2025 at 1:08 PM
I've just stood down as external examiner for Newcastle University's BA Education. This excellent degree, its hard-working students and talented staff deserve so much more than the behaviour of the University management to date. Solidarity with all striking @newcastleucu.bsky.social colleagues.
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Exactly this. What’s striking across the HE-bonfire-board is the meanness, the triviality, the TINY amounts saved in these cuts. Lives ruined through job loss at worst, fear/burnout/disengagement at best. And for truly trivial savings compared to the cost of one yachted-in management consultant
Eight compulsory redundancies. Just how much do you hate your staff that you go through the trouble of destroying the livelihoods of these colleagues, for just *eight* salaries. What's that, in relation to the entire operating budget of the university?
www.uea.ac.uk/about/news/s...
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Latest update on UEA's financial sustainability plan | UEA
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June 17, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Exactly this. What’s striking across the HE-bonfire-board is the meanness, the triviality, the TINY amounts saved in these cuts. Lives ruined through job loss at worst, fear/burnout/disengagement at best. And for truly trivial savings compared to the cost of one yachted-in management consultant
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Opinion: It may be difficult to enter on to a balance sheet but some weaker institutions may struggle to recover from reputational damage caused by mass redundancies, says Nick Megoran
#AcademicSky
#AcademicSky
Mass redundancies will trash the reputation of UK universities
It may be difficult to enter on to a balance sheet but some weaker institutions may struggle to recover from reputational damage, says Nick Megoran
www.timeshighereducation.com
June 17, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Opinion: It may be difficult to enter on to a balance sheet but some weaker institutions may struggle to recover from reputational damage caused by mass redundancies, says Nick Megoran
#AcademicSky
#AcademicSky
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Edinburgh Principal Sir Peter Mathieson flummoxed when asked what he earns.
He’s had a 7.5% pay rise, makes more than the First Minister and UK PM combined and still “isn’t quite sure” what he’s paid.
Meanwhile, staff face £140m cuts. @ucuscotland.bsky.social
#ucu #CutTheCuts
He’s had a 7.5% pay rise, makes more than the First Minister and UK PM combined and still “isn’t quite sure” what he’s paid.
Meanwhile, staff face £140m cuts. @ucuscotland.bsky.social
#ucu #CutTheCuts
June 5, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Edinburgh Principal Sir Peter Mathieson flummoxed when asked what he earns.
He’s had a 7.5% pay rise, makes more than the First Minister and UK PM combined and still “isn’t quite sure” what he’s paid.
Meanwhile, staff face £140m cuts. @ucuscotland.bsky.social
#ucu #CutTheCuts
He’s had a 7.5% pay rise, makes more than the First Minister and UK PM combined and still “isn’t quite sure” what he’s paid.
Meanwhile, staff face £140m cuts. @ucuscotland.bsky.social
#ucu #CutTheCuts
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Am pleased to say we have now issued in the High Court our claim against the EHRC. Its position on toilets is, we believe quite clearly, unlawful. goodlaw.social/20ku
Legal challenge: EHRC guidance is either wrong in law or breaches human rights | Good Law Project
Guidance that excludes trans people faces challenge in the High Court.
goodlaw.social
June 6, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Am pleased to say we have now issued in the High Court our claim against the EHRC. Its position on toilets is, we believe quite clearly, unlawful. goodlaw.social/20ku
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Another recent open-access book some will find interesting: Inside Asylum Appeals by Nick Gill and others. It's a comparative study involving observations of appeal hearings + research interviews covering Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Italy and the UK. www.routledge.com/Inside-Asylu...
Inside Asylum Appeals: Access, Participation and Procedure in Europe
Appeals are a crucial part of Europe’s asylum system but they remain poorly understood. Building on insights and perspectives from legal geography and socio-legal studies, this book shines a light on ...
www.routledge.com
April 25, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Another recent open-access book some will find interesting: Inside Asylum Appeals by Nick Gill and others. It's a comparative study involving observations of appeal hearings + research interviews covering Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Italy and the UK. www.routledge.com/Inside-Asylu...
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🤔 What exactly is agency, and why does it matter in schools?
At this hybrid seminar, Prof. @markrpriestley.bsky.social will unpack the slippery concept of agency in education, challenging common myths and calling for clarity in theory and practice.
🗓️ 24 June 2025
www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/events/2...
At this hybrid seminar, Prof. @markrpriestley.bsky.social will unpack the slippery concept of agency in education, challenging common myths and calling for clarity in theory and practice.
🗓️ 24 June 2025
www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/events/2...
Children's agency in the national curriculum: The promise of structured freedom
An international seminar and book launch including new research on how children's voices and choices shape their learning.
www.ucl.ac.uk
June 6, 2025 at 2:35 PM
🤔 What exactly is agency, and why does it matter in schools?
At this hybrid seminar, Prof. @markrpriestley.bsky.social will unpack the slippery concept of agency in education, challenging common myths and calling for clarity in theory and practice.
🗓️ 24 June 2025
www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/events/2...
At this hybrid seminar, Prof. @markrpriestley.bsky.social will unpack the slippery concept of agency in education, challenging common myths and calling for clarity in theory and practice.
🗓️ 24 June 2025
www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/events/2...
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Registration is now open for this BSA event on making and using sociological archives with contributions from a range of established and emerging researchers as well as archives. Includes a workshop led by Rachel Thomson on creative repurposing of qualitative data. Book your place by 13th June.
**Save the date** Beyond the archival turn: Making & using sociological archives. 30 June, Leicester. tinyurl.com/3fuducmm. Exploring the rich archival resources that exist within sociology and how creative methods can be used to make the past anew and help us to imagine different kinds of futures.
Beyond the ‘archival turn’: Making and using sociological archives
britsoc.co.uk
May 13, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Registration is now open for this BSA event on making and using sociological archives with contributions from a range of established and emerging researchers as well as archives. Includes a workshop led by Rachel Thomson on creative repurposing of qualitative data. Book your place by 13th June.
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NEW on Wonkhe: Steven Jones makes the case for a new ethical code to empower university governors to stand up for students, staff and the public value of higher education buff.ly/hR1dEeI
May 28, 2025 at 6:05 AM
NEW on Wonkhe: Steven Jones makes the case for a new ethical code to empower university governors to stand up for students, staff and the public value of higher education buff.ly/hR1dEeI
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Great to see this BERA Blog Special Issue on Tertiary Education out!
📝 NEW BLOG SPECIAL ISSUE
Potential pathways towards an integrated tertiary education system in England
Guest edited by @paulashwin.bsky.social and Rt. Hon. Charles Clarke
Read here: bera.ac.uk/blog-special...
Potential pathways towards an integrated tertiary education system in England
Guest edited by @paulashwin.bsky.social and Rt. Hon. Charles Clarke
Read here: bera.ac.uk/blog-special...
May 9, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Great to see this BERA Blog Special Issue on Tertiary Education out!
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Join us for our free 1-day end-of-project conference on 19th June at Friends House, London! We'll share our key findings & recommendations and discuss all things #schoolmeals with some great people including @sharonhodgsonmp.bsky.social!
#histed
Register here:
www.eventbrite.com/e/the-school...
#histed
Register here:
www.eventbrite.com/e/the-school...
The School Meals Service: Past, Present - and Future?
Join us for this free, full-day conference to discuss the past, present and future of the UK School Meals Service.
www.eventbrite.com
May 9, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Join us for our free 1-day end-of-project conference on 19th June at Friends House, London! We'll share our key findings & recommendations and discuss all things #schoolmeals with some great people including @sharonhodgsonmp.bsky.social!
#histed
Register here:
www.eventbrite.com/e/the-school...
#histed
Register here:
www.eventbrite.com/e/the-school...
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📣 The School of Education is working with the sector to shape priorities for the new Centre for Teaching Excellence. We’re keen to talk with teachers across Scotland in focus groups that will inform our national survey.
Find out more and sign up here:
www.gla.ac.uk/schools/educ...
Please share!
Find out more and sign up here:
www.gla.ac.uk/schools/educ...
Please share!
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April 26, 2025 at 6:02 AM
📣 The School of Education is working with the sector to shape priorities for the new Centre for Teaching Excellence. We’re keen to talk with teachers across Scotland in focus groups that will inform our national survey.
Find out more and sign up here:
www.gla.ac.uk/schools/educ...
Please share!
Find out more and sign up here:
www.gla.ac.uk/schools/educ...
Please share!
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Join us for a virtual conversation exploring global resistance to democratic backsliding. We’ll discuss how social movements are pushing back against right-wing regimes around the world, with a focus on immigration, higher eduction, and gender and reproductive justice. Register: bit.ly/CBSMevent
April 26, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Join us for a virtual conversation exploring global resistance to democratic backsliding. We’ll discuss how social movements are pushing back against right-wing regimes around the world, with a focus on immigration, higher eduction, and gender and reproductive justice. Register: bit.ly/CBSMevent
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How do histories of the German 'Third Reich' play out in care of older people today? In the piece below (with @probursula.bsky.social), I look at, among other things, how Nationalsocialist discourse still frames client-carer relationships in care (1-5): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
April 25, 2025 at 12:04 PM
How do histories of the German 'Third Reich' play out in care of older people today? In the piece below (with @probursula.bsky.social), I look at, among other things, how Nationalsocialist discourse still frames client-carer relationships in care (1-5): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Deeply uncomfortable with the "world-leading universities" rhetoric as a justification for doubling down on reliance on overseas student fees.
British universities are world-leading research institutions, but that doesn't necessarily bleed over into providing world-leading teaching experiences.
British universities are world-leading research institutions, but that doesn't necessarily bleed over into providing world-leading teaching experiences.
April 15, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Deeply uncomfortable with the "world-leading universities" rhetoric as a justification for doubling down on reliance on overseas student fees.
British universities are world-leading research institutions, but that doesn't necessarily bleed over into providing world-leading teaching experiences.
British universities are world-leading research institutions, but that doesn't necessarily bleed over into providing world-leading teaching experiences.