Dr Katie Carpenter
@ktrcarpenter.bsky.social
Lecturer in Public History at University of Leeds. Research Interests: history of women and science. Teaching Interests: creative teaching and assessment. Views my own.
Fun fact: #TaylorSwift sings 'You dug me out of my grave and saved my heart from the fate of Ophelia' 🎵 Lizzie Siddal, the model who posed for Ophelia by Millais actually was dug out of her grave 7 years after she was buried cos her husband Rossetti wanted some poems back he'd buried with her.
October 13, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Fun fact: #TaylorSwift sings 'You dug me out of my grave and saved my heart from the fate of Ophelia' 🎵 Lizzie Siddal, the model who posed for Ophelia by Millais actually was dug out of her grave 7 years after she was buried cos her husband Rossetti wanted some poems back he'd buried with her.
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A useful reminder to permanent academic staff. Many of you may have temporary staff joining your departments soon. It's nice to at least pretend to think they are people - why not learn their names and their field of interest, to develop this basic level of polite collegiality?
August 13, 2025 at 10:30 AM
A useful reminder to permanent academic staff. Many of you may have temporary staff joining your departments soon. It's nice to at least pretend to think they are people - why not learn their names and their field of interest, to develop this basic level of polite collegiality?
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Two fully funded PhD studentships in history have just opened @liverpooluni.bsky.social - deadline for applications is 30 May www.liverpool.ac.uk/histories-la...
Postgraduate research | School of Histories, Languages and Cultures | University of Liverpool facebookThe Original RedbrickUniversity of Liverpool on FacebookLivUni on InstagramLivUni on YouTube...
www.liverpool.ac.uk
February 27, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Two fully funded PhD studentships in history have just opened @liverpooluni.bsky.social - deadline for applications is 30 May www.liverpool.ac.uk/histories-la...
Exciting new Collaborative Doctoral Award at the University of Leeds and Institution of Engineering and Technology: 'Connecting suffragettes, technology and society: Caroline Haslett’s international correspondence network'. Please circulate: wrocah.ac.uk/cda-projects...
CDA Projects offered for 2025 « White Rose College of the Arts & Humanities
The White Rose College of the Arts & Humanities is a Doctoral Training Partnerships supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council
wrocah.ac.uk
February 4, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Exciting new Collaborative Doctoral Award at the University of Leeds and Institution of Engineering and Technology: 'Connecting suffragettes, technology and society: Caroline Haslett’s international correspondence network'. Please circulate: wrocah.ac.uk/cda-projects...
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Amongst the bleak news from every which way, I'm celebrating my book coming out digitally today 🎉
Living with the Dead interrogates family histories and the way they shape our present.
It's totally free to read/download academic.oup.com/book/59440?s...
#skystorians #familyhistorians #genealogy
Living with the Dead interrogates family histories and the way they shape our present.
It's totally free to read/download academic.oup.com/book/59440?s...
#skystorians #familyhistorians #genealogy
Living with the Dead: Memories, Histories, and the Stories Families Tell in Modern Britain
Abstract. The dead are everywhere in family life. From a great-grandmother’s recipe made time and again, to a dog-eared black-and-white photo of a family o
academic.oup.com
January 29, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Amongst the bleak news from every which way, I'm celebrating my book coming out digitally today 🎉
Living with the Dead interrogates family histories and the way they shape our present.
It's totally free to read/download academic.oup.com/book/59440?s...
#skystorians #familyhistorians #genealogy
Living with the Dead interrogates family histories and the way they shape our present.
It's totally free to read/download academic.oup.com/book/59440?s...
#skystorians #familyhistorians #genealogy
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There's an alternative model to improve senior management that would not require VCs to come from educationalist backgrounds: expect them to teach and administer one module per term per annum. Much needless expenditure & poor policy derives from senior managers' distance from students & classrooms.
New generation of educationalist vice-chancellors urges change
As more vice-chancellors across the UK emerge from educational backgrounds, rather than academic ones, they argue that academic bias and hierarchies need to be dismantled
www.timeshighereducation.com
November 25, 2024 at 7:51 AM
There's an alternative model to improve senior management that would not require VCs to come from educationalist backgrounds: expect them to teach and administer one module per term per annum. Much needless expenditure & poor policy derives from senior managers' distance from students & classrooms.
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Last call for this event tomorrow!
In Leeds on Friday 20 Sep? Come and hear me talk about secret histories in the archives! It will have a women’s history slant (including #NecessaryWomen). And it’s hybrid, so come even if you aren’t in Leeds! #GLAM ahc.leeds.ac.uk/history/even...
Lecture: Dr Mari Takayanagi
Dr Mari Takayanagi explores secret histories in the archives.
ahc.leeds.ac.uk
September 19, 2024 at 5:46 PM
Last call for this event tomorrow!
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'From my perspective, if university employees are consistently working more than 48 hours a week, their employers are potentially violating key UK Health and Safety (H&S) requirements. Workload management isn’t just a matter of institutional efficacy and well-being—it’s a pressing legal issue.'
Staff are working dangerously long hours, and their employers should be concerned
Alastair Smith argues that widespread expectations that people work long hours in higher education may be in conflict with UK working time regulations
wonkhe.com
September 16, 2024 at 7:32 AM
'From my perspective, if university employees are consistently working more than 48 hours a week, their employers are potentially violating key UK Health and Safety (H&S) requirements. Workload management isn’t just a matter of institutional efficacy and well-being—it’s a pressing legal issue.'
I had such a wonderful time at a Lego Serious Play session in the University of Leeds HELIX this afternoon! Really inspiring and enjoyable training experience!
November 24, 2023 at 4:45 PM
I had such a wonderful time at a Lego Serious Play session in the University of Leeds HELIX this afternoon! Really inspiring and enjoyable training experience!
This was published agggges ago but I am sooo chuffed to finally have a paper copy of my first article
November 6, 2023 at 2:19 PM
This was published agggges ago but I am sooo chuffed to finally have a paper copy of my first article
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🗃️The JWH has been migrating from that other site to this one. Could you please give us a boost here (and there) to move our followers to this more pleasant place? Thank you!
November 1, 2023 at 12:44 PM
🗃️The JWH has been migrating from that other site to this one. Could you please give us a boost here (and there) to move our followers to this more pleasant place? Thank you!
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Very excited to hear that booking is now open for this event that I'm speaking at in November. Looks like this is going to be a fun line up!
August 22, 2023 at 10:00 AM
Very excited to hear that booking is now open for this event that I'm speaking at in November. Looks like this is going to be a fun line up!
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🗃️ #familyhistory #genealogy
Working in pre-decimal currency can be a pain, so I’ve put together an Excel document that makes it a lot easier. If you need a calculator that works with pounds, shillings and pence, you are welcome to download and use this chartist-ancestors.blogspot.com/2023/07/need...
Working in pre-decimal currency can be a pain, so I’ve put together an Excel document that makes it a lot easier. If you need a calculator that works with pounds, shillings and pence, you are welcome to download and use this chartist-ancestors.blogspot.com/2023/07/need...
September 22, 2023 at 6:51 AM
🗃️ #familyhistory #genealogy
Working in pre-decimal currency can be a pain, so I’ve put together an Excel document that makes it a lot easier. If you need a calculator that works with pounds, shillings and pence, you are welcome to download and use this chartist-ancestors.blogspot.com/2023/07/need...
Working in pre-decimal currency can be a pain, so I’ve put together an Excel document that makes it a lot easier. If you need a calculator that works with pounds, shillings and pence, you are welcome to download and use this chartist-ancestors.blogspot.com/2023/07/need...
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If you go to the top right corner of your home screen there is a settings box which allows you to pin particular feeds to your screen. You can also search for them. There is one for #18c for instance and one for #histsci. And a general history one that uses the 🗃 emoji.
September 20, 2023 at 9:37 AM
If you go to the top right corner of your home screen there is a settings box which allows you to pin particular feeds to your screen. You can also search for them. There is one for #18c for instance and one for #histsci. And a general history one that uses the 🗃 emoji.
I’m looking forward to assessing by ‘unessay’ in Semester 2!
The rising popularity of the unessay—a creative project students complete in place of writing a paper—meets students where they are, Bryan A. Banks argues in Perspectives on History.
The Unessay: A Creative and Audience-Focused Assignment
A popular assignment format meets students—and audiences—where they are.
www.historians.org
September 20, 2023 at 11:25 PM
I’m looking forward to assessing by ‘unessay’ in Semester 2!
The library at Leeds just keeps getting feta and feta www.theguardian.com/books/2023/s...
September 13, 2023 at 9:31 PM
The library at Leeds just keeps getting feta and feta www.theguardian.com/books/2023/s...
The look of disappointment when she realised the wavy bacon is art and not a snack
September 5, 2023 at 11:13 AM
The look of disappointment when she realised the wavy bacon is art and not a snack