Lucy Wishart
@lucyjwishart.bsky.social
Interdisciplinary lecturer in waste, reuse and circular economies.
“Universities are big sources of export earnings and key anchor institutions for many second and third-tier cities. The more they shrink, the more local economies will struggle” 📣📣📣
This is a vital essay by @johnspringford.bsky.social & @acjsissons.bsky.social - diagnosing the British malaise and providing a set of clear policy solutions. You will be much better informed for having read it getting-out-of-the-hole.uk
Getting Britain out of the hole
A plan for the UK economy
getting-out-of-the-hole.uk
November 17, 2025 at 1:33 PM
“Universities are big sources of export earnings and key anchor institutions for many second and third-tier cities. The more they shrink, the more local economies will struggle” 📣📣📣
Shout out to the conductor on my ScotRail train this morning who encouraged passengers to look out for seals sunbathing on the rocks at Kinghorn/Burntisland.
A lovely message on a sunny commute.
A lovely message on a sunny commute.
May 22, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Shout out to the conductor on my ScotRail train this morning who encouraged passengers to look out for seals sunbathing on the rocks at Kinghorn/Burntisland.
A lovely message on a sunny commute.
A lovely message on a sunny commute.
Really excited that my fantastic School of Geosciences colleague Mary Lawson will be sharing her work as a #OTB4 keynote.
Doing arts/human/social science on #waste or #CircularEconomy?
Please join us in Le Mans 🇫🇷 in December.
Doing arts/human/social science on #waste or #CircularEconomy?
Please join us in Le Mans 🇫🇷 in December.
We are delighted to introduce our next #OTB4 keynote speaker, Mary Lawhon!
She is Professor of Political Ecology at the University of Edinburgh and researches the impact of #waste on broader understandings of justice and #sustainability.
Read more about Mary’s work: marylawhon.com
She is Professor of Political Ecology at the University of Edinburgh and researches the impact of #waste on broader understandings of justice and #sustainability.
Read more about Mary’s work: marylawhon.com
April 30, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Really excited that my fantastic School of Geosciences colleague Mary Lawson will be sharing her work as a #OTB4 keynote.
Doing arts/human/social science on #waste or #CircularEconomy?
Please join us in Le Mans 🇫🇷 in December.
Doing arts/human/social science on #waste or #CircularEconomy?
Please join us in Le Mans 🇫🇷 in December.
The official blue colour in Scotland’s flag is Panetone 300- wonder where they got the inspiration 🤔
Perfect spring days on Skye.
Perfect spring days on Skye.
April 9, 2025 at 5:36 PM
The official blue colour in Scotland’s flag is Panetone 300- wonder where they got the inspiration 🤔
Perfect spring days on Skye.
Perfect spring days on Skye.
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🚮Opening the Bin returns for its 4th edition, 'Le Vie en Bin', this December 2025, hosted by Le Mans Universite', France!
🌍Join the international community in exploring and discussing waste materials and practices!
🗓️ Submit your abstract by 30/04/2025: otb4.sciencesconf.org/resource/pag...
#OTB4
🌍Join the international community in exploring and discussing waste materials and practices!
🗓️ Submit your abstract by 30/04/2025: otb4.sciencesconf.org/resource/pag...
#OTB4
April 8, 2025 at 3:49 PM
🚮Opening the Bin returns for its 4th edition, 'Le Vie en Bin', this December 2025, hosted by Le Mans Universite', France!
🌍Join the international community in exploring and discussing waste materials and practices!
🗓️ Submit your abstract by 30/04/2025: otb4.sciencesconf.org/resource/pag...
#OTB4
🌍Join the international community in exploring and discussing waste materials and practices!
🗓️ Submit your abstract by 30/04/2025: otb4.sciencesconf.org/resource/pag...
#OTB4
Really important work here
Food aid workers or food waste workers? That is the question
Food aid workers or food waste workers? That is the question
🙌 Incredible turnout at our House of Commons event for the launch of our new report: ‘Used By – How businesses dump waste on food charities’.
A huge thanks to Wera Hobhouse MP, Sharon Hodgson MP, and our amazing panel for their insightful contributions!
Read the report: feedbackglobal.org/used-by
A huge thanks to Wera Hobhouse MP, Sharon Hodgson MP, and our amazing panel for their insightful contributions!
Read the report: feedbackglobal.org/used-by
March 27, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Really important work here
Food aid workers or food waste workers? That is the question
Food aid workers or food waste workers? That is the question
I’ve been teaching Doughnut Economics across various courses for a while now. I really like seeing how students engage with and push at the idea from different disciplines.
Calling profs and lecturers! If you are interested in bringing the concepts of Doughnut Economics into your teaching - whatever the discipline - then our webinar on Monday 31 March is especially for you. Join us and let's get the Doughnut on the curriculum.... doughnuteconomics.org/events/teach...
Teaching Doughnut Economics in Universities | DEAL
A webinar for lecturers & professors interested in bringing Doughnut Economics into their curricula and teaching
doughnuteconomics.org
March 26, 2025 at 7:08 PM
I’ve been teaching Doughnut Economics across various courses for a while now. I really like seeing how students engage with and push at the idea from different disciplines.
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being an indie bookseller in the helltimes has felt both very stable and very stabilizing, and part of me wishes everyone could be on my side of the counter for a little while, because I think it would help some of you be a little less cynical and doomy right now. so here is my VERY anecdotal data:
March 22, 2025 at 3:36 AM
being an indie bookseller in the helltimes has felt both very stable and very stabilizing, and part of me wishes everyone could be on my side of the counter for a little while, because I think it would help some of you be a little less cynical and doomy right now. so here is my VERY anecdotal data:
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The cost of rail continues to increase when many workers are struggling and have no alternative. I'll be leading this debate and will push this to the vote at Holyrood tomorrow
SNP ministers under pressure to ditch inflation-busting 4% rail fares hike
EXCLUSIVE: MSPs will get a chance to demand the 3.8 per cent rise in ScotRail prices is scrapped before it hits commuters in the pocket.
buff.ly
February 25, 2025 at 8:39 AM
The cost of rail continues to increase when many workers are struggling and have no alternative. I'll be leading this debate and will push this to the vote at Holyrood tomorrow
We did a wonderful walk of juxtapositions yesterday along the canal from the Falkirk wheel to the Antonine Wall.
Herons and litter; the convenience stores of Bonnybridge leading to the John Muir Way; Roman forts with power lines; a Smiths toys trolley in a woodland
All of life in 4.2 miles.
Herons and litter; the convenience stores of Bonnybridge leading to the John Muir Way; Roman forts with power lines; a Smiths toys trolley in a woodland
All of life in 4.2 miles.
February 15, 2025 at 7:42 PM
We did a wonderful walk of juxtapositions yesterday along the canal from the Falkirk wheel to the Antonine Wall.
Herons and litter; the convenience stores of Bonnybridge leading to the John Muir Way; Roman forts with power lines; a Smiths toys trolley in a woodland
All of life in 4.2 miles.
Herons and litter; the convenience stores of Bonnybridge leading to the John Muir Way; Roman forts with power lines; a Smiths toys trolley in a woodland
All of life in 4.2 miles.
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What does 1T of second-hand clothes look like? 👗⛰️
This morning, social enterprises unloaded a small mountain of second-hand textiles in front of the EP to call for action to protect the #reuse market from being destroyed by fast fashion.
Put #SecondhandFirst – read the open letter 👇
zurl.co/WPj5c
This morning, social enterprises unloaded a small mountain of second-hand textiles in front of the EP to call for action to protect the #reuse market from being destroyed by fast fashion.
Put #SecondhandFirst – read the open letter 👇
zurl.co/WPj5c
January 30, 2025 at 1:47 PM
What does 1T of second-hand clothes look like? 👗⛰️
This morning, social enterprises unloaded a small mountain of second-hand textiles in front of the EP to call for action to protect the #reuse market from being destroyed by fast fashion.
Put #SecondhandFirst – read the open letter 👇
zurl.co/WPj5c
This morning, social enterprises unloaded a small mountain of second-hand textiles in front of the EP to call for action to protect the #reuse market from being destroyed by fast fashion.
Put #SecondhandFirst – read the open letter 👇
zurl.co/WPj5c
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On our weekly podcast #TransformingTomorrow, we are partway through a miniseries about #plastics. This week Profs Alex Skandalis + James Cronin bring their marketing expertise to help us understand consumer behaviours around plastic.
You can find this, and previous, episodes here: pod.fo/e/2a1408
You can find this, and previous, episodes here: pod.fo/e/2a1408
January 20, 2025 at 10:07 AM
On our weekly podcast #TransformingTomorrow, we are partway through a miniseries about #plastics. This week Profs Alex Skandalis + James Cronin bring their marketing expertise to help us understand consumer behaviours around plastic.
You can find this, and previous, episodes here: pod.fo/e/2a1408
You can find this, and previous, episodes here: pod.fo/e/2a1408
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Opinion | A Crisis of Trust in the Classroom
The work of teaching has never been harder, Seth C. Bruggeman writes. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/4j8rn81
The work of teaching has never been harder, Seth C. Bruggeman writes. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/4j8rn81
A crisis of trust in the classroom (opinion)
The work of teaching has never been harder, Seth C. Bruggeman writes.
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January 14, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Opinion | A Crisis of Trust in the Classroom
The work of teaching has never been harder, Seth C. Bruggeman writes. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/4j8rn81
The work of teaching has never been harder, Seth C. Bruggeman writes. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/4j8rn81
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just blurted out in class "yes, you have to cite where you got your info. in a world in which lying loudly is the only thing that seems to get rewarded, citing your sources is an act of resistance" and folks, I really believe that.
December 19, 2024 at 3:35 PM
just blurted out in class "yes, you have to cite where you got your info. in a world in which lying loudly is the only thing that seems to get rewarded, citing your sources is an act of resistance" and folks, I really believe that.
The secret to shopping more sustainably this Christmas? Share the joy!
Our recent research findings (with a seasonal twist) in The Conversation today
theconversation.com/how-to-get-o...
#CircularEconomy #SustainableConsumption #reuse
Our recent research findings (with a seasonal twist) in The Conversation today
theconversation.com/how-to-get-o...
#CircularEconomy #SustainableConsumption #reuse
How to get on board with secondhand shopping this Christmas
Recent research has found several ways in which buying pre-loved beats traditional retail.
theconversation.com
December 9, 2024 at 5:50 PM
The secret to shopping more sustainably this Christmas? Share the joy!
Our recent research findings (with a seasonal twist) in The Conversation today
theconversation.com/how-to-get-o...
#CircularEconomy #SustainableConsumption #reuse
Our recent research findings (with a seasonal twist) in The Conversation today
theconversation.com/how-to-get-o...
#CircularEconomy #SustainableConsumption #reuse
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World will be ‘unable to cope’ with volume of plastic waste in 10 years, warns expert
World will be ‘unable to cope’ with volume of plastic waste in 10 years, warns expert
Countries must curb production now and tackle plastic’s full life cycle, says Norwegian minister Anne Beathe Tvinnereim ahead of key UN talks this week
buff.ly
November 24, 2024 at 6:54 PM
World will be ‘unable to cope’ with volume of plastic waste in 10 years, warns expert
Funded PhD position (incl int’l fees) University of St Andrews
Business School. 5 potential topics - incl.
“Social Value and Organisation(s) in the #CircularEconomy”
with me and Prof. Alina Baluch
Deadline 15/3/24
Please get in touch if interested
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DFR235/s...
Business School. 5 potential topics - incl.
“Social Value and Organisation(s) in the #CircularEconomy”
with me and Prof. Alina Baluch
Deadline 15/3/24
Please get in touch if interested
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DFR235/s...
February 2, 2024 at 9:10 PM
Funded PhD position (incl int’l fees) University of St Andrews
Business School. 5 potential topics - incl.
“Social Value and Organisation(s) in the #CircularEconomy”
with me and Prof. Alina Baluch
Deadline 15/3/24
Please get in touch if interested
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DFR235/s...
Business School. 5 potential topics - incl.
“Social Value and Organisation(s) in the #CircularEconomy”
with me and Prof. Alina Baluch
Deadline 15/3/24
Please get in touch if interested
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DFR235/s...
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📣Job: My department at the University of St Andrews, UK, is seeking a Professor of Neuroscience (cellular to behavioural neuroscience). We are a friendly, supportive department with a strong focus on equality, diversity and inclusion. Deadline: 15 Jan. www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
December 21, 2023 at 11:46 AM
📣Job: My department at the University of St Andrews, UK, is seeking a Professor of Neuroscience (cellular to behavioural neuroscience). We are a friendly, supportive department with a strong focus on equality, diversity and inclusion. Deadline: 15 Jan. www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
A question about Spring Insight weeks (SIW) (mini-internships with global corporations) #AcademicSky:
SIW occur in April so inevitably are going to clash with some academic calendars? Have you experience of students asking for accommodations to participate in these schemes? How have you responded?
SIW occur in April so inevitably are going to clash with some academic calendars? Have you experience of students asking for accommodations to participate in these schemes? How have you responded?
November 29, 2023 at 9:53 AM
A question about Spring Insight weeks (SIW) (mini-internships with global corporations) #AcademicSky:
SIW occur in April so inevitably are going to clash with some academic calendars? Have you experience of students asking for accommodations to participate in these schemes? How have you responded?
SIW occur in April so inevitably are going to clash with some academic calendars? Have you experience of students asking for accommodations to participate in these schemes? How have you responded?
Teaching #mgmtsky & #CircularEconomy next semester?
@olifranklinwallis.bsky.social
Wasteland is Radio 4’s
book this week & episode 1 is a great teaching resource in organisation(s) & waste 14 mins covering corruption; labour; politics; markets; consumption & more
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
@olifranklinwallis.bsky.social
Wasteland is Radio 4’s
book this week & episode 1 is a great teaching resource in organisation(s) & waste 14 mins covering corruption; labour; politics; markets; consumption & more
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Wasteland by Oliver Franklin-Wallis - The Tipping Floor - BBC Sounds
A headfirst dive into the murky world of recycling.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 28, 2023 at 11:53 AM
Teaching #mgmtsky & #CircularEconomy next semester?
@olifranklinwallis.bsky.social
Wasteland is Radio 4’s
book this week & episode 1 is a great teaching resource in organisation(s) & waste 14 mins covering corruption; labour; politics; markets; consumption & more
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
@olifranklinwallis.bsky.social
Wasteland is Radio 4’s
book this week & episode 1 is a great teaching resource in organisation(s) & waste 14 mins covering corruption; labour; politics; markets; consumption & more
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
A tale of two charges:
Ikea charger off so emergency (& expensive) stop behind a service station😑
Free boost at West Sands beach whilst watching St Andrews day fireworks with hot chocolate 🥰
Say what you like about this #EV life- it’s not monotonous
Ikea charger off so emergency (& expensive) stop behind a service station😑
Free boost at West Sands beach whilst watching St Andrews day fireworks with hot chocolate 🥰
Say what you like about this #EV life- it’s not monotonous
November 26, 2023 at 8:19 PM
A tale of two charges:
Ikea charger off so emergency (& expensive) stop behind a service station😑
Free boost at West Sands beach whilst watching St Andrews day fireworks with hot chocolate 🥰
Say what you like about this #EV life- it’s not monotonous
Ikea charger off so emergency (& expensive) stop behind a service station😑
Free boost at West Sands beach whilst watching St Andrews day fireworks with hot chocolate 🥰
Say what you like about this #EV life- it’s not monotonous
I'm trying the online marking system Gradescope this morning in a desperate attempt to find something that feels as comfy as the manual "marking up" of paper scripts. Not yet hitting the spot.
#AcademicSky - what's your favourite digital marking solution?
#AcademicSky - what's your favourite digital marking solution?
October 24, 2023 at 9:58 AM
I'm trying the online marking system Gradescope this morning in a desperate attempt to find something that feels as comfy as the manual "marking up" of paper scripts. Not yet hitting the spot.
#AcademicSky - what's your favourite digital marking solution?
#AcademicSky - what's your favourite digital marking solution?
Beautiful blue skies this Sunday afternoon- finally some welcome relief from the tempest of Babet.
October 22, 2023 at 1:52 PM
Beautiful blue skies this Sunday afternoon- finally some welcome relief from the tempest of Babet.
I wouldn’t be reading this on a Sunday if it wasn’t for work, but also reading an interesting book doesn’t really feel like work…
This is why I spend all week on emails and in meetings isn’t it?
#AcademicChatter
This is why I spend all week on emails and in meetings isn’t it?
#AcademicChatter
October 15, 2023 at 11:46 AM
I wouldn’t be reading this on a Sunday if it wasn’t for work, but also reading an interesting book doesn’t really feel like work…
This is why I spend all week on emails and in meetings isn’t it?
#AcademicChatter
This is why I spend all week on emails and in meetings isn’t it?
#AcademicChatter