Pippa Sterk
@pippasterk.bsky.social
Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Bristol.
Interested in queer/LGBT+ pedagogies 🌈
Occasional creative writer, podcaster, film curator, and events producer.
Interested in queer/LGBT+ pedagogies 🌈
Occasional creative writer, podcaster, film curator, and events producer.
KCL AI policy defines AI as "any technology or system that can reason and/or adapt, sometimes on its own" which is kind of like saying that airplanes can fly 'on their own' because the pilots are not physically pushing the vehicle forward flintstones-style.
September 12, 2025 at 10:42 AM
KCL AI policy defines AI as "any technology or system that can reason and/or adapt, sometimes on its own" which is kind of like saying that airplanes can fly 'on their own' because the pilots are not physically pushing the vehicle forward flintstones-style.
This ESEA History Month, let's all do a fun little thing where we're honest and realistic about who events / scholarship / communities are actually for! I know calling something ESEA looks nice on funding applications but some of you are absolutely kidding yourselves
September 6, 2025 at 2:26 PM
This ESEA History Month, let's all do a fun little thing where we're honest and realistic about who events / scholarship / communities are actually for! I know calling something ESEA looks nice on funding applications but some of you are absolutely kidding yourselves
When people talk about the 'sentience' of AI, it just sounds to me like they're admitting that they think of other people as controllable entities that they can feed an input in order to gain a predictable output. Real pickup artist mentality, very gross!
August 26, 2025 at 10:27 AM
When people talk about the 'sentience' of AI, it just sounds to me like they're admitting that they think of other people as controllable entities that they can feed an input in order to gain a predictable output. Real pickup artist mentality, very gross!
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Our first podcast - defending the spirit of youth work. Thanks to "It's Just Research" team for lovely conversation on youth work, policy, social haunting, and creative collaborative research.
www.kcl.ac.uk/its-just-res...
@kingsecs.bsky.social @pippasterk.bsky.social @liamciniodwyer.bsky.social
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@kingsecs.bsky.social @pippasterk.bsky.social @liamciniodwyer.bsky.social
July 7, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Our first podcast - defending the spirit of youth work. Thanks to "It's Just Research" team for lovely conversation on youth work, policy, social haunting, and creative collaborative research.
www.kcl.ac.uk/its-just-res...
@kingsecs.bsky.social @pippasterk.bsky.social @liamciniodwyer.bsky.social
www.kcl.ac.uk/its-just-res...
@kingsecs.bsky.social @pippasterk.bsky.social @liamciniodwyer.bsky.social
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📢 NEW PODCAST EPISODE 📢
We talk to Dr Tania de St Croix and Louise Doherty about their collaborative research project that sought to address the impact of rising evaluation of youth work and how policy threatens the spirit of youth work.
www.kcl.ac.uk/its-just-res...
We talk to Dr Tania de St Croix and Louise Doherty about their collaborative research project that sought to address the impact of rising evaluation of youth work and how policy threatens the spirit of youth work.
www.kcl.ac.uk/its-just-res...
It's Just Research, Season 2 Ep 6: Defending the spirit of youth work
In this episode, hosts Sara and Pippa interview Dr Tania de St Croix and Louise Doherty about their research on measuring the impact of youth work.
www.kcl.ac.uk
June 18, 2025 at 10:44 AM
📢 NEW PODCAST EPISODE 📢
We talk to Dr Tania de St Croix and Louise Doherty about their collaborative research project that sought to address the impact of rising evaluation of youth work and how policy threatens the spirit of youth work.
www.kcl.ac.uk/its-just-res...
We talk to Dr Tania de St Croix and Louise Doherty about their collaborative research project that sought to address the impact of rising evaluation of youth work and how policy threatens the spirit of youth work.
www.kcl.ac.uk/its-just-res...
Queer Pages is back for Pride month!! In this episode we discuss the joys of reading work by independent publishers, through the novella Andrion.
We're getting back on the podcasting horse, so subscribe to hear about new episodes!
@knighterrantpress.bsky.social
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We're getting back on the podcasting horse, so subscribe to hear about new episodes!
@knighterrantpress.bsky.social
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Andrion - Queer Ancient Greece and Small Press Publishing #16
Queer Pages · Episode
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June 4, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Queer Pages is back for Pride month!! In this episode we discuss the joys of reading work by independent publishers, through the novella Andrion.
We're getting back on the podcasting horse, so subscribe to hear about new episodes!
@knighterrantpress.bsky.social
open.spotify.com/episode/6iDL...
We're getting back on the podcasting horse, so subscribe to hear about new episodes!
@knighterrantpress.bsky.social
open.spotify.com/episode/6iDL...
Had a great time presenting at the UCU LGBT+ research conference last Friday, catching up with colleagues I hadn't seen in-person for a long time, and meeting new scholars doing LGBT+ related research 🌈 📚
May 19, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Had a great time presenting at the UCU LGBT+ research conference last Friday, catching up with colleagues I hadn't seen in-person for a long time, and meeting new scholars doing LGBT+ related research 🌈 📚
absolutely wiiiild how often pro-genAI positions within pedagogy are framed as just being 'realistic'. It speaks to such a lack of imagination, trust, and accountability, when it seems a foregone conclusion that students WILL use genAI and there is no way we can put up even the slightest boundary.
May 1, 2025 at 9:35 AM
absolutely wiiiild how often pro-genAI positions within pedagogy are framed as just being 'realistic'. It speaks to such a lack of imagination, trust, and accountability, when it seems a foregone conclusion that students WILL use genAI and there is no way we can put up even the slightest boundary.
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STATEMENT: 'Not In Our Name: Feminist Academics and Educators Speak Out Against Transphobia'
Read the statement online here: tinyurl.com/mud7va29
Co-sign the statement, fill in this form: forms.gle/oDYgnobrMiSc...
Read the statement online here: tinyurl.com/mud7va29
Co-sign the statement, fill in this form: forms.gle/oDYgnobrMiSc...
Not In Our Name: Feminist Academics and Educators Speak Out Against Transphobia
We call on all trans-inclusive feminist academics and educators to sign this statement:
‘Not In Our Name’
We are non-trans feminist academics and educators. We write in support of trans rights, tran...
forms.gle
April 30, 2025 at 7:25 AM
STATEMENT: 'Not In Our Name: Feminist Academics and Educators Speak Out Against Transphobia'
Read the statement online here: tinyurl.com/mud7va29
Co-sign the statement, fill in this form: forms.gle/oDYgnobrMiSc...
Read the statement online here: tinyurl.com/mud7va29
Co-sign the statement, fill in this form: forms.gle/oDYgnobrMiSc...
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📣 NEW PODCAST EPISODE 📣
How do we deconstruct military identity in the UK psyche? 💭🪖
This is the question that Dr Antonia Dawes interrogates in her research. Listen to the latest episode of the 'It's Just Research' podcast.
➡️ bit.ly/4jPoHLT
How do we deconstruct military identity in the UK psyche? 💭🪖
This is the question that Dr Antonia Dawes interrogates in her research. Listen to the latest episode of the 'It's Just Research' podcast.
➡️ bit.ly/4jPoHLT
April 24, 2025 at 3:41 PM
📣 NEW PODCAST EPISODE 📣
How do we deconstruct military identity in the UK psyche? 💭🪖
This is the question that Dr Antonia Dawes interrogates in her research. Listen to the latest episode of the 'It's Just Research' podcast.
➡️ bit.ly/4jPoHLT
How do we deconstruct military identity in the UK psyche? 💭🪖
This is the question that Dr Antonia Dawes interrogates in her research. Listen to the latest episode of the 'It's Just Research' podcast.
➡️ bit.ly/4jPoHLT
The worry that now cis male police officers are going to use the new regulations to strip search cis women (and then claim he thought she was trans) overlooks the fact that strip searching is and has ALWAYS been a way of legalising and legitimising sexual violence.
April 20, 2025 at 1:31 PM
The worry that now cis male police officers are going to use the new regulations to strip search cis women (and then claim he thought she was trans) overlooks the fact that strip searching is and has ALWAYS been a way of legalising and legitimising sexual violence.
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Young people won't let youth work disappear!
Thanks It's Just Research podcast @kingsecs.bsky.social for inviting me and Louise Doherty to discuss our recent article "Embers, and Fragments: Social Haunting in Youth Work, Impact Measurement and Policy Networks"
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Thanks It's Just Research podcast @kingsecs.bsky.social for inviting me and Louise Doherty to discuss our recent article "Embers, and Fragments: Social Haunting in Youth Work, Impact Measurement and Policy Networks"
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
April 17, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Young people won't let youth work disappear!
Thanks It's Just Research podcast @kingsecs.bsky.social for inviting me and Louise Doherty to discuss our recent article "Embers, and Fragments: Social Haunting in Youth Work, Impact Measurement and Policy Networks"
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Thanks It's Just Research podcast @kingsecs.bsky.social for inviting me and Louise Doherty to discuss our recent article "Embers, and Fragments: Social Haunting in Youth Work, Impact Measurement and Policy Networks"
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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But, one thing: almost everyone I know is trans, I only know two people with GRCs. It's a barbaric, bureaucratic system with no room for anything that makes life worth living. Once again, we are forced to defend the absolute worst version of what anyone would want. Another world is fucking possible.
April 16, 2025 at 9:38 AM
But, one thing: almost everyone I know is trans, I only know two people with GRCs. It's a barbaric, bureaucratic system with no room for anything that makes life worth living. Once again, we are forced to defend the absolute worst version of what anyone would want. Another world is fucking possible.
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having read it, my fellow cis readers, i can tell you that it is 400 pages of "maybe" and "if/then" statements that rely on inference from the maybes. when it does cite data, it's old studies or ones with tiny sample sizes. it uses terms of art in a colloquial sense to obscure meaning. it's trash.
i don't even think anyone who cites the cass report as an authority actually read it. it could have just been 12,239 pages of lorem ipsum and its proponents would talk about it exactly the same as they do now
Remember: Cass is not peer-reviewed - and is therefore not “gold”, silver, bronze or even recycled plastic standard.
IMO it’s just pseudoscience.
There are now at least five damming, peer-reviewed critiques of Cass; all automatically of a higher standard, with at least two more in peer-review.
IMO it’s just pseudoscience.
There are now at least five damming, peer-reviewed critiques of Cass; all automatically of a higher standard, with at least two more in peer-review.
April 11, 2025 at 1:34 PM
having read it, my fellow cis readers, i can tell you that it is 400 pages of "maybe" and "if/then" statements that rely on inference from the maybes. when it does cite data, it's old studies or ones with tiny sample sizes. it uses terms of art in a colloquial sense to obscure meaning. it's trash.
Come join us next week!! 🌈
Lunch ‘n’ Learn: "What’s the Use - the value of LGBT+ voluntary spaces in Higher Education” with Pippa Sterk
Thu, 17 Apr| 12:00 - 13:00 |MS Teams
Pippa Sterk joins us to discuss the critical and transformative vision of LGBT+ student and staff networks in HEIs.
www.proudlykings.com/event-detail...
Thu, 17 Apr| 12:00 - 13:00 |MS Teams
Pippa Sterk joins us to discuss the critical and transformative vision of LGBT+ student and staff networks in HEIs.
www.proudlykings.com/event-detail...
April 7, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Come join us next week!! 🌈
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Also it’s extremely non-inevitable if:
- it doesn’t work
- it pollutes its own dataset
- action is taken against illegal data theft
- the VC money runs out and it turns out to be prohibitively expensive to use without subsidy
- we don’t use it for stuff it can’t do
- it’s too environmentally costly
- it doesn’t work
- it pollutes its own dataset
- action is taken against illegal data theft
- the VC money runs out and it turns out to be prohibitively expensive to use without subsidy
- we don’t use it for stuff it can’t do
- it’s too environmentally costly
Genuinely depressing how many people I see using AI because "it's inevitable so we better get used to it now"
It's only inevitable because you're listening to the fuckheads pushing this! You can just not! If no one uses it, it is extremely evitable!
It's only inevitable because you're listening to the fuckheads pushing this! You can just not! If no one uses it, it is extremely evitable!
April 2, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Also it’s extremely non-inevitable if:
- it doesn’t work
- it pollutes its own dataset
- action is taken against illegal data theft
- the VC money runs out and it turns out to be prohibitively expensive to use without subsidy
- we don’t use it for stuff it can’t do
- it’s too environmentally costly
- it doesn’t work
- it pollutes its own dataset
- action is taken against illegal data theft
- the VC money runs out and it turns out to be prohibitively expensive to use without subsidy
- we don’t use it for stuff it can’t do
- it’s too environmentally costly
Yeah, I've been experimenting with fusion cuisine lately (put chilli crisp on a baked potato)
March 26, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Yeah, I've been experimenting with fusion cuisine lately (put chilli crisp on a baked potato)
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We condemn the reported harassment of KCL staff.
We will continue to defend academic freedom and the right to peaceful activism without intimidation.
Solidarity 👇
We will continue to defend academic freedom and the right to peaceful activism without intimidation.
Solidarity 👇
March 19, 2025 at 10:57 AM
We condemn the reported harassment of KCL staff.
We will continue to defend academic freedom and the right to peaceful activism without intimidation.
Solidarity 👇
We will continue to defend academic freedom and the right to peaceful activism without intimidation.
Solidarity 👇
Pls fund me to create a training course where I go round with a buzzer making a loud noise whenever USAmerican scholars fail to declare where their research takes place. The US is not the global baseline, actually! Research done in the US is just as culturally specific as research anywhere else!
March 6, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Pls fund me to create a training course where I go round with a buzzer making a loud noise whenever USAmerican scholars fail to declare where their research takes place. The US is not the global baseline, actually! Research done in the US is just as culturally specific as research anywhere else!
In the latest episode of It's Just Research, @liamciniodwyer.bsky.social and I talk to Dr Sophie Perry about her research on environmental education. We also discuss what life is like just after the PhD, and the fallacies of grind culture in Higher Education 🎙️
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Season 2 | It's Just Research
The necessity of unlearning
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February 28, 2025 at 9:28 AM
In the latest episode of It's Just Research, @liamciniodwyer.bsky.social and I talk to Dr Sophie Perry about her research on environmental education. We also discuss what life is like just after the PhD, and the fallacies of grind culture in Higher Education 🎙️
shows.acast.com/its-just-res...
shows.acast.com/its-just-res...
Since October, I have been part of this year's cohort of Barbican Young Film Programmers. Alongside learning more about curation in general, together we have produced the Chronic Youth Festival, taking place on 26/27 April. Tickets are now online! 🎥
www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...
www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...
Chronic Youth Film Festival 2025 | Barbican
Chronic Youth Film Festival 2025 presents Against All Odds: Resilience, community, and memory on screen.
www.barbican.org.uk
February 27, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Since October, I have been part of this year's cohort of Barbican Young Film Programmers. Alongside learning more about curation in general, together we have produced the Chronic Youth Festival, taking place on 26/27 April. Tickets are now online! 🎥
www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...
www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...
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our first Interdisciplinary Open Research Lunch was today! @pippasterk.bsky.social and I wanted to make a space to talk about approaches to open research across disciplines at King's, made possible with the generous support of the Improving Research Community Builder Award @orbenamy.bsky.social
February 25, 2025 at 5:58 PM
our first Interdisciplinary Open Research Lunch was today! @pippasterk.bsky.social and I wanted to make a space to talk about approaches to open research across disciplines at King's, made possible with the generous support of the Improving Research Community Builder Award @orbenamy.bsky.social