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Dr Lynton Lees
@lyntonlees.bsky.social
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Researching UK education and society.

Senior Policy Adviser, British Academy. PhD education in modern Britain. London via Lancs. All views my own.
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Wonderful to spend yesterday afternoon celebrating ten years of Our Migration Story, an unrivalled online resource for teachers and students to learn about migration’s centrality to the making of modern Britain. Congrats to all who made OMS possible — felt urgent and energising
A panel of speakers at the ten year anniversary of Our Migration Story website on October 27 2025 at King’s College, London. Building facade at King’s College, London with student sat at an outdoor table and a mixture of blue and cloudy skies, October 27th 2025.
October 28, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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Wonderful to see ITV Wales covering growing cold spots for humanities, social science and arts courses in Wales in their morning roundup - and welcome news that a Welsh gov report on subject provision is in the works: www.itv.com/watch/news/y...
September 10, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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The maps are the latest of our dynamic data-driven tools on our SHAPE Observatory. (Also out today: an interactive dashboard tracking post-16 subject choice by gender, ethnicity, FSM, SEND - well worth a look). Lots more to come - stay tuned! (8)
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Banner image for the British Academy's SHAPE Observatory, the home for data and interactive visualisations about SHAPE provision in UK HE.
February 20, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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What do the maps show? It's an uneven picture, divergent regionally + across four nations. Take Classics: up in Scotland, down everywhere else - with NI as a big cold spot. Many Humanities see similar patterns: History, Eng, Langs see moderate increase in Scotland and decreases everywhere else. (4)
Indicative map showing overall decreases in student numbers for Classics since 2011/12 in England and Wales and overall increases in Scotland. Northern Ireland shows no provision for Classics between 2011/12-2022/23.
February 20, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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First up: new features. We can now filter all providers by subject, year, tariff level etc, tracking increases/decreases in student numbers. Also: compare how the picture has changed over time, select an entire region, multi-select providers into groupings... tons to dig into. (2)
Generic indicative map of SHAPE student numbers in North West/West Midlands, showing patterns of increases/decreases. Example of a table showing graphs visualising changes on student numbers in SHAPE subjects since 2011/12.
February 20, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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Our new maps launch today - now, crucially, with subject data from individual UK universities. This adds a new dimension to our cold spots mapping what students can study and where. The maps show a complex regional picture - let's get into it ⤵️ (1)
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Generic image of map showing cold spots in SHAPE subject provision in UK higher education. Indicative map showing example of provider-level data on SHAPE student numbers in UK HE, zoomed in on Midlands/South East of England.
February 20, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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🚨 Are we seeing regional cold spots in social sciences, humanities & arts provision emerge across UK HE? 🚨

Today our team @britishacademy.bsky.social launches the first new mapping tool on our SHAPE Observatory. Our maps track changes in SHAPE subject provision in UK universities since 2011 🗺️ ⤵️
Map indicating potential cold spots in provision of SHAPE subjects. ©️British Academy, 2024.
November 20, 2024 at 8:33 AM