Rachel Shanks
@rkshanks.bsky.social
Interdisciplinary Institute Director for Social Inclusion & Cultural Diversity, Aberdeen
Interests: School uniform, dress codes & appearance policies; human rights education; & sustainability.
UCU member. She/her. Own views.
Interests: School uniform, dress codes & appearance policies; human rights education; & sustainability.
UCU member. She/her. Own views.
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Rachel Shanks
@rkshanks.bsky.social
· Dec 14
I didn't see a similar starter pack so have had a go at making one.
Let me know others to add. #education #research #Scotland #SERA go.bsky.app/GiWv5ws
Let me know others to add. #education #research #Scotland #SERA go.bsky.app/GiWv5ws
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Why the debate around school uniforms is far from simple. School uniforms bring together conversations about cost, comfort, sustainability, tradition & identity, write Majella McSharry @dublincityuni.bsky.social & @rkshanks.bsky.social University of Aberdeen #backtoschool www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
Why the debate around school uniforms is far from simple
School uniforms bring together conversations about cost, comfort, sustainability, tradition and identity that warrant closer examination
www.rte.ie
August 19, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Why the debate around school uniforms is far from simple. School uniforms bring together conversations about cost, comfort, sustainability, tradition & identity, write Majella McSharry @dublincityuni.bsky.social & @rkshanks.bsky.social University of Aberdeen #backtoschool www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
Part of the #backtoschool #schooluniform debate with @dublincityuni.bsky.social colleague Dr Majella McSharry
Why the debate around school uniforms is far from simple. School uniforms bring together conversations about cost, comfort, sustainability, tradition & identity, write Majella McSharry @dublincityuni.bsky.social & @rkshanks.bsky.social University of Aberdeen #backtoschool www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
Why the debate around school uniforms is far from simple
School uniforms bring together conversations about cost, comfort, sustainability, tradition and identity that warrant closer examination
www.rte.ie
August 25, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Part of the #backtoschool #schooluniform debate with @dublincityuni.bsky.social colleague Dr Majella McSharry
If you're a member of the @scottishgreens.org don't forget to vote in the internal elections and please Vote @ross-greer.bsky.social 1st for Co-Leader. I think he'll be a great Co-Leader and that's why I nominated him for the post.
August 14, 2025 at 11:12 AM
If you're a member of the @scottishgreens.org don't forget to vote in the internal elections and please Vote @ross-greer.bsky.social 1st for Co-Leader. I think he'll be a great Co-Leader and that's why I nominated him for the post.
Please help with this PhD research if you're a teacher in Scotland and also an activist. #activist #Scotland
CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS
Seeking #activist teachers who are also qualified, fully registered & working in #Scotland schools. This is for my @unistrathclyde.bsky.social PhD exploring their experiences of #professionallearning & #activism.
Grateful for your support!
forms.office.com/e/cjNE3UkNyY
Seeking #activist teachers who are also qualified, fully registered & working in #Scotland schools. This is for my @unistrathclyde.bsky.social PhD exploring their experiences of #professionallearning & #activism.
Grateful for your support!
forms.office.com/e/cjNE3UkNyY
August 1, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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We're on the lookout for an outstanding Projects Producer (maternity cover) to take the wheel of #NFYT2026, as well as playing a key part in lots of other fun YTAS projects. Could you be that person?
Read more at buff.ly/w3A6AXp (deadline 28 July 2025)
Read more at buff.ly/w3A6AXp (deadline 28 July 2025)
July 5, 2025 at 3:02 PM
We're on the lookout for an outstanding Projects Producer (maternity cover) to take the wheel of #NFYT2026, as well as playing a key part in lots of other fun YTAS projects. Could you be that person?
Read more at buff.ly/w3A6AXp (deadline 28 July 2025)
Read more at buff.ly/w3A6AXp (deadline 28 July 2025)
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PhD Project Alert 🚨! Elisabetta Mariani and I are advertising a new PhD project with the TARGET Centre of Doctoral Training - Powering the Green Transition: Structural Clues to UK and Ireland Molybdenum Resources. Links below:
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July 2, 2025 at 9:28 PM
PhD Project Alert 🚨! Elisabetta Mariani and I are advertising a new PhD project with the TARGET Centre of Doctoral Training - Powering the Green Transition: Structural Clues to UK and Ireland Molybdenum Resources. Links below:
target.le.ac.uk/wp-content/u...
target.le.ac.uk/how-to-apply/
target.le.ac.uk/wp-content/u...
target.le.ac.uk/how-to-apply/
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July 2, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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🎉Delighted that Christine Johnsson’s @mau.se review of ‘Nordic Perspectives on Human Rights Education’ (2025) is now free to read /download
🎉The review in @hrer.bsky.social is book’s first
🎉Check it out!
@tandfresearch.bsky.social
@beategold.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1080/2535...
🎉The review in @hrer.bsky.social is book’s first
🎉Check it out!
@tandfresearch.bsky.social
@beategold.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1080/2535...
Nordic perspectives on human rights education: research and practice for social justice
Published in Human Rights Education Review (Ahead of Print, 2025)
doi.org
June 25, 2025 at 9:48 AM
🎉Delighted that Christine Johnsson’s @mau.se review of ‘Nordic Perspectives on Human Rights Education’ (2025) is now free to read /download
🎉The review in @hrer.bsky.social is book’s first
🎉Check it out!
@tandfresearch.bsky.social
@beategold.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1080/2535...
🎉The review in @hrer.bsky.social is book’s first
🎉Check it out!
@tandfresearch.bsky.social
@beategold.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1080/2535...
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Luckily we still have time to stop this bill from becoming law.
Use our simple tool to urge your MP to vote against these cuts 👇
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Use our simple tool to urge your MP to vote against these cuts 👇
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Your MP must vote against cruel cuts to disability support
Our social security system should be there for us all, especially when we need it most. But the UK government has proposed huge cuts to disabled people’s support which are going through Parliament now...
action.trussell.org.uk
June 19, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Luckily we still have time to stop this bill from becoming law.
Use our simple tool to urge your MP to vote against these cuts 👇
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Use our simple tool to urge your MP to vote against these cuts 👇
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I would be keen to hear from academics with an expertise in either film relations between the GDR and African countries or film relations between the GDR and Southern or East Asian countries.
June 18, 2025 at 1:29 PM
I would be keen to hear from academics with an expertise in either film relations between the GDR and African countries or film relations between the GDR and Southern or East Asian countries.
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👀 Funded collaborative PhD:
Document Detectives: A Crowdsourced Approach for Reuniting Strayed Documents at the UK National Archives
www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/new...
Document Detectives: A Crowdsourced Approach for Reuniting Strayed Documents at the UK National Archives
www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/new...
PhD studentship opportunity with The National Archives
University College London and The National Archives are pleased to announce the availability of a fully-funded collaborative doctoral studentship from October 2025.
www.ucl.ac.uk
June 16, 2025 at 6:24 PM
👀 Funded collaborative PhD:
Document Detectives: A Crowdsourced Approach for Reuniting Strayed Documents at the UK National Archives
www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/new...
Document Detectives: A Crowdsourced Approach for Reuniting Strayed Documents at the UK National Archives
www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/new...
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All claims against @ucu.org.uk fail and have been dismissed by the tribunal. This is an important victory for our union, our movement and for LGBTQ+ people www.ucu.org.uk/article/1404... 1/2
Employment Tribunal rejects claims University and College Union discriminated against members on grounds of their gender critical beliefs
The University and College Union has successfully defended claims against it in an Employment Tribunal from two UCU members who claim they had been discriminated against and harassed by the union beca...
www.ucu.org.uk
June 9, 2025 at 1:10 PM
All claims against @ucu.org.uk fail and have been dismissed by the tribunal. This is an important victory for our union, our movement and for LGBTQ+ people www.ucu.org.uk/article/1404... 1/2
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FactCheck: two-child benefit cap will push 80 children a day into poverty, exclusive data shows
www.channel4.com/news/factche...
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FactCheck: two-child benefit cap will push 80 children a day into poverty, exclusive data shows
Eighty children a day will be pushed into poverty because of the two-child benefit limit, exclusive data shared with Channel 4 News shows.
www.channel4.com
May 29, 2025 at 7:23 PM
FactCheck: two-child benefit cap will push 80 children a day into poverty, exclusive data shows
www.channel4.com/news/factche...
www.channel4.com/news/factche...
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"Surprisingly...by trying to act as a ‘critical friend’, a sizeable number of cyclists may unwittingly undermine their own cause"
Really interesting new work on how politicians use social media, from @alexnurse.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
Really interesting new work on how politicians use social media, from @alexnurse.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
May 29, 2025 at 5:17 PM
"Surprisingly...by trying to act as a ‘critical friend’, a sizeable number of cyclists may unwittingly undermine their own cause"
Really interesting new work on how politicians use social media, from @alexnurse.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
Really interesting new work on how politicians use social media, from @alexnurse.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
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Aberdeen end 35-year wait for Scottish Cup glory with shootout win over Celtic
Aberdeen end 35-year wait for Scottish Cup glory with shootout win over Celtic
History repeated itself as Jimmy Thelin’s Aberdeen were victorious over Celtic in the Scottish Cup final for the first time since 1990
www.theguardian.com
May 24, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Aberdeen end 35-year wait for Scottish Cup glory with shootout win over Celtic
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⭐️We look forward to welcoming colleagues to the IAHRE conference in London 12-13 June
⭐️HRER is the official journal of IAHRE
⭐️It’s not too late to register, do join us!
@rkshanks.bsky.social @kalpanid.bsky.social @dralistruthers.bsky.social @audreyosler.bsky.social
global-iahre.org/research/
⭐️HRER is the official journal of IAHRE
⭐️It’s not too late to register, do join us!
@rkshanks.bsky.social @kalpanid.bsky.social @dralistruthers.bsky.social @audreyosler.bsky.social
global-iahre.org/research/
2025 IAHRE Conference – 12-13 June 2025 – London
Human Rights Education and Youth Empowerment Thursday 12 June from 12.30pm and Friday 13 June 2025 9.30 – 16.00 Venue: IOE UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society 20 Bedford Way, London WC1H 0…
global-iahre.org
May 21, 2025 at 6:39 AM
⭐️We look forward to welcoming colleagues to the IAHRE conference in London 12-13 June
⭐️HRER is the official journal of IAHRE
⭐️It’s not too late to register, do join us!
@rkshanks.bsky.social @kalpanid.bsky.social @dralistruthers.bsky.social @audreyosler.bsky.social
global-iahre.org/research/
⭐️HRER is the official journal of IAHRE
⭐️It’s not too late to register, do join us!
@rkshanks.bsky.social @kalpanid.bsky.social @dralistruthers.bsky.social @audreyosler.bsky.social
global-iahre.org/research/
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We're hiring! Do you have significant experience of child protection practice and the innovation to support partners to deliver on the ambition for transformational change to improving the lives of children and families? This could be the role for you: buff.ly/M83Od68
May 17, 2025 at 1:01 PM
We're hiring! Do you have significant experience of child protection practice and the innovation to support partners to deliver on the ambition for transformational change to improving the lives of children and families? This could be the role for you: buff.ly/M83Od68
Just spent a great 2 days at Gävle University in Sweden with members of an international research network on children's human rights education funded by the Swedish Research Council.
May 17, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Just spent a great 2 days at Gävle University in Sweden with members of an international research network on children's human rights education funded by the Swedish Research Council.
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Rebellion against ‘outdated’ camogie skorts rule gathering pace
Rebellion against ‘outdated’ camogie skorts rule gathering pace
Cork planning to defy regulation and wear shorts in Saturday’s Munster final, with players ready to forfeit the game if instructed to change
www.irishtimes.com
May 7, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Rebellion against ‘outdated’ camogie skorts rule gathering pace
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May 6, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Belmont Street will be buzzing again on Saturday 31 May as The Big Belmont Bash returns.
There’ll be music from Fine Times, creative activities, outdoor performances, and plenty of free fun for all ages. Right in the heart of the city.
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There’ll be music from Fine Times, creative activities, outdoor performances, and plenty of free fun for all ages. Right in the heart of the city.
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Belmont Bash Brings Free Summer Fun Back to Aberdeen
Local businesses and artists join forces for a city centre celebration full of heart.
buff.ly
May 6, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Belmont Street will be buzzing again on Saturday 31 May as The Big Belmont Bash returns.
There’ll be music from Fine Times, creative activities, outdoor performances, and plenty of free fun for all ages. Right in the heart of the city.
⭕ More on POST
There’ll be music from Fine Times, creative activities, outdoor performances, and plenty of free fun for all ages. Right in the heart of the city.
⭕ More on POST
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Ursula Jacob: The absurd skorts rule is distracting from the great things happening in camogie
Ursula Jacob: The absurd skorts rule is distracting from the great things happening in camogie
Women and girls should be able to choose what they wear to play our national game, and not have to obey an archaic dress code
www.irishtimes.com
May 5, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Ursula Jacob: The absurd skorts rule is distracting from the great things happening in camogie
Delighted to see this motion on sustainable school uniform passed at @nasuwtscotland.bsky.social conference. Sustainable, affordable and comfortable school uniform is what I work on. www.abdn.ac.uk/education/re...
May 4, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Delighted to see this motion on sustainable school uniform passed at @nasuwtscotland.bsky.social conference. Sustainable, affordable and comfortable school uniform is what I work on. www.abdn.ac.uk/education/re...