Rob Hodges
@robhodges.bsky.social
Pre-award Officer in the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences team in the Business Development, Research & Innovation directorate (BDRI) at the University of Kent. Dad to 2 girls & a staffy, husband to Grace. Nerd.
Just putting it out there how engaging, interesting and often at times funny @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social content is on @lbc.co.uk. His honest, up front and no-nonsense truth to Trump's bizarre and damaging politics is so important. I always look forward to listening to his shows & appearances on LBC.
a man in a suit and bow tie is standing in front of a blackboard and making a funny face .
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September 19, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Just putting it out there how engaging, interesting and often at times funny @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social content is on @lbc.co.uk. His honest, up front and no-nonsense truth to Trump's bizarre and damaging politics is so important. I always look forward to listening to his shows & appearances on LBC.
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New RSA Blog 🌍✍️ by Johanna Schnabel (@jos38.bsky.social) : Can Devolution Reduce Regional Inequality in the UK?
From “Levelling Up” to “Power Up Britain,” devolution is central, but structures alone aren’t enough. Read more 👇
🔗 www.regionalstudies.org/rsa-blog/202...
Found this insightful!!
From “Levelling Up” to “Power Up Britain,” devolution is central, but structures alone aren’t enough. Read more 👇
🔗 www.regionalstudies.org/rsa-blog/202...
Found this insightful!!
September 12, 2025 at 2:14 PM
New RSA Blog 🌍✍️ by Johanna Schnabel (@jos38.bsky.social) : Can Devolution Reduce Regional Inequality in the UK?
From “Levelling Up” to “Power Up Britain,” devolution is central, but structures alone aren’t enough. Read more 👇
🔗 www.regionalstudies.org/rsa-blog/202...
Found this insightful!!
From “Levelling Up” to “Power Up Britain,” devolution is central, but structures alone aren’t enough. Read more 👇
🔗 www.regionalstudies.org/rsa-blog/202...
Found this insightful!!
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NEW BLOG POST ALERT!
Is education a postcode lottery? Dive into the latest PSJ blog post examining how regional authority, spending, and demographics drive inequality across OECD countries.
By @jos38.bsky.social
Read here:
psjblog.net/2025/09/10/a...
#PSJ #PolicyStudiesJournal
Is education a postcode lottery? Dive into the latest PSJ blog post examining how regional authority, spending, and demographics drive inequality across OECD countries.
By @jos38.bsky.social
Read here:
psjblog.net/2025/09/10/a...
#PSJ #PolicyStudiesJournal
A postcode lottery in education? Explaining regional inequality in multilevel systems
by Johanna Schnabel Existing research focuses predominantly on inequality among individuals. But inequality also has a territorial dimension. This article seeks to better understand the drivers of …
psjblog.net
September 10, 2025 at 6:14 PM
NEW BLOG POST ALERT!
Is education a postcode lottery? Dive into the latest PSJ blog post examining how regional authority, spending, and demographics drive inequality across OECD countries.
By @jos38.bsky.social
Read here:
psjblog.net/2025/09/10/a...
#PSJ #PolicyStudiesJournal
Is education a postcode lottery? Dive into the latest PSJ blog post examining how regional authority, spending, and demographics drive inequality across OECD countries.
By @jos38.bsky.social
Read here:
psjblog.net/2025/09/10/a...
#PSJ #PolicyStudiesJournal
One of my favourite Yes, Minister / Yes, Prime Minister scenes. Always makes me chuckle 😂 youtube.com/shorts/5CRSb...
Why is Humphrey entering 10 Downing Street through here? #comedy
YouTube video by Tea Time TV
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August 18, 2025 at 8:55 AM
One of my favourite Yes, Minister / Yes, Prime Minister scenes. Always makes me chuckle 😂 youtube.com/shorts/5CRSb...
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#OnlineEvent | 'Navigating Postdoctoral Funding and Applications in Middle East Studies'
🗓️29 May, 14:00-15.30 (BST)
Join our next online event with scholars sharing tips on postdoc applications and funding in Middle East Studies. More info: shorturl.at/5g4nJ
🗓️29 May, 14:00-15.30 (BST)
Join our next online event with scholars sharing tips on postdoc applications and funding in Middle East Studies. More info: shorturl.at/5g4nJ
May 21, 2025 at 5:23 PM
#OnlineEvent | 'Navigating Postdoctoral Funding and Applications in Middle East Studies'
🗓️29 May, 14:00-15.30 (BST)
Join our next online event with scholars sharing tips on postdoc applications and funding in Middle East Studies. More info: shorturl.at/5g4nJ
🗓️29 May, 14:00-15.30 (BST)
Join our next online event with scholars sharing tips on postdoc applications and funding in Middle East Studies. More info: shorturl.at/5g4nJ
Don't we all!
Kemi Badenoch wants Liz Truss to ‘shut up for a while’
Kemi Badenoch wants Liz Truss to ‘shut up for a while’
Tory leader told shadow cabinet last week she wanted predecessor to stop making unhelpful interventions
* UK politics live – latest updates
Kemi Badenoch has told shadow ministers she wants a period of silence from Liz Truss, as the Conservative…
www.theguardian.com
January 23, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Don't we all!
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Harmonie Toros (Prof of Politics and International Relations, U of Reading) will offer a reassessment of the Munich Conference of 1938. She has advised NATO and the UN on conflict resolution with non-state groups across the world.
January 10, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Harmonie Toros (Prof of Politics and International Relations, U of Reading) will offer a reassessment of the Munich Conference of 1938. She has advised NATO and the UN on conflict resolution with non-state groups across the world.
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This week REF launched its call for membership of the subject panels for 2029. This includes for the chair, deputy chair and members of the History sub-panel. This time, application is via self-nomination bit.ly/4gnTOwW.
Closing dates: chairs 6 February / panel members 28 April 2025 #Skystorians
Closing dates: chairs 6 February / panel members 28 April 2025 #Skystorians
December 18, 2024 at 9:54 AM
This week REF launched its call for membership of the subject panels for 2029. This includes for the chair, deputy chair and members of the History sub-panel. This time, application is via self-nomination bit.ly/4gnTOwW.
Closing dates: chairs 6 February / panel members 28 April 2025 #Skystorians
Closing dates: chairs 6 February / panel members 28 April 2025 #Skystorians
Penultimate day at work for 2024...
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December 18, 2024 at 7:30 AM
Penultimate day at work for 2024...
Just thought I'd share this again in case it's useful for any #Politics #PoliticsandIR #InternationalRelations academics or research support administrators/managers
A #StarterPack / list of societies, professional associations, funders, charities and organisations that fund, support and promote scholars and the scholarship of Politics and International Relations. Feel free to share, add to or suggest additons #Politics #PoliticsandIR
go.bsky.app/QQ3EUt6
go.bsky.app/QQ3EUt6
December 15, 2024 at 1:21 PM
Just thought I'd share this again in case it's useful for any #Politics #PoliticsandIR #InternationalRelations academics or research support administrators/managers
A #StarterPack / list of societies, professional associations, funders, charities and organisations that fund, support and promote scholars and the scholarship of Politics and International Relations. Feel free to share, add to or suggest additons #Politics #PoliticsandIR
go.bsky.app/QQ3EUt6
go.bsky.app/QQ3EUt6
December 13, 2024 at 9:36 PM
A #StarterPack / list of societies, professional associations, funders, charities and organisations that fund, support and promote scholars and the scholarship of Politics and International Relations. Feel free to share, add to or suggest additons #Politics #PoliticsandIR
go.bsky.app/QQ3EUt6
go.bsky.app/QQ3EUt6
What about starter packs for political scientists, English literature scholars, economists, classics scholars, architects, legal scholars? Can anyone point me toward those?
On Monday we began a Starter Pack of societies and organisations (UK and international) for historians.
Thanks to your recommendations and help, we've added another 40 societies and networks to the listing this week bsky.app/starter-pack...
#Skystorians
Thanks to your recommendations and help, we've added another 40 societies and networks to the listing this week bsky.app/starter-pack...
#Skystorians
December 13, 2024 at 8:07 PM
What about starter packs for political scientists, English literature scholars, economists, classics scholars, architects, legal scholars? Can anyone point me toward those?
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On Monday we began a Starter Pack of societies and organisations (UK and international) for historians.
Thanks to your recommendations and help, we've added another 40 societies and networks to the listing this week bsky.app/starter-pack...
#Skystorians
Thanks to your recommendations and help, we've added another 40 societies and networks to the listing this week bsky.app/starter-pack...
#Skystorians
December 13, 2024 at 8:39 AM
On Monday we began a Starter Pack of societies and organisations (UK and international) for historians.
Thanks to your recommendations and help, we've added another 40 societies and networks to the listing this week bsky.app/starter-pack...
#Skystorians
Thanks to your recommendations and help, we've added another 40 societies and networks to the listing this week bsky.app/starter-pack...
#Skystorians
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The #JoRMA Journal of Research Management and Administration is looking to expand its editorial team. We are a diamond #OpenAccess journal run by and for #RMA researchers and professionals. publications.coventry.ac.uk/index.php/jo... - deadline 15th Jan 2025.
Editorial Board Vacancies
| Journal of Research Management and Administration
publications.coventry.ac.uk
December 13, 2024 at 4:32 PM
The #JoRMA Journal of Research Management and Administration is looking to expand its editorial team. We are a diamond #OpenAccess journal run by and for #RMA researchers and professionals. publications.coventry.ac.uk/index.php/jo... - deadline 15th Jan 2025.
While I personally feel that strikes when the sector is on its knees isn't a good idea I don't think VCs saying to the workforce that "There’s a sense of not living in the real world" is helpful when they earn anything from £200k+
www.thetimes.com/uk/education...
www.thetimes.com/uk/education...
December 13, 2024 at 3:44 PM
While I personally feel that strikes when the sector is on its knees isn't a good idea I don't think VCs saying to the workforce that "There’s a sense of not living in the real world" is helpful when they earn anything from £200k+
www.thetimes.com/uk/education...
www.thetimes.com/uk/education...
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We invite submissions for the Society's 2025 First Book and Early Career Article prizes, to recognise historical scholarship, by early career historians, published in 2024.
Details of author eligibility, and how to submit your first book or an article: bit.ly/4i9180F Closing date 31 January.
Details of author eligibility, and how to submit your first book or an article: bit.ly/4i9180F Closing date 31 January.
December 13, 2024 at 11:55 AM
We invite submissions for the Society's 2025 First Book and Early Career Article prizes, to recognise historical scholarship, by early career historians, published in 2024.
Details of author eligibility, and how to submit your first book or an article: bit.ly/4i9180F Closing date 31 January.
Details of author eligibility, and how to submit your first book or an article: bit.ly/4i9180F Closing date 31 January.
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🌟 Nominations open for the 2025 PSA/APSA International Partnerships Award! @apsa.bsky.social
📝 Applications should be received by close of play 24 January 2025.
Find out more:
📝 Applications should be received by close of play 24 January 2025.
Find out more:
The 2025 PSA/APSA International Partnerships Award | The Political Studies Association (PSA)
The American Political Science Association (APSA) and the Political Studies Association (PSA) are pleased to announce that entries are now welcome for this award which recognises the very best in…
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December 13, 2024 at 12:01 PM
🌟 Nominations open for the 2025 PSA/APSA International Partnerships Award! @apsa.bsky.social
📝 Applications should be received by close of play 24 January 2025.
Find out more:
📝 Applications should be received by close of play 24 January 2025.
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I maybe wrong but I'm not sure how much more efficient & effective we can be in HE administration. We're already stripped to the bone. I also think after years & years of restructures & job losses that the term 'efficiency' means, in reality, one thing to VCs - more job cuts and mergers
‘Survival’ of universities depends on efficiency drive, says HE minister Jacqui Smith.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
December 12, 2024 at 10:35 AM
I maybe wrong but I'm not sure how much more efficient & effective we can be in HE administration. We're already stripped to the bone. I also think after years & years of restructures & job losses that the term 'efficiency' means, in reality, one thing to VCs - more job cuts and mergers
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Just did me a little light rearranging….
December 11, 2024 at 11:46 AM
Just did me a little light rearranging….
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🚨 Publication Day Klaxon 🚨 for * The Edinburgh Companion to Queer Reading * & it looks like the price is reduced for publication day. I’ll be doing an advent calendar of snippets from each chapter over the coming month. Follow the 🧵 here! #QueerReading #LGBTQStudies
November 30, 2024 at 12:50 PM
🚨 Publication Day Klaxon 🚨 for * The Edinburgh Companion to Queer Reading * & it looks like the price is reduced for publication day. I’ll be doing an advent calendar of snippets from each chapter over the coming month. Follow the 🧵 here! #QueerReading #LGBTQStudies
Things continuing to look bleak for the higher education sector in England. Very worrying.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
December 11, 2024 at 11:38 AM
Things continuing to look bleak for the higher education sector in England. Very worrying.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
I just had to google TLDR to check what it meant - goodbye youth, it was nice knowing you!
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December 11, 2024 at 10:38 AM
I just had to google TLDR to check what it meant - goodbye youth, it was nice knowing you!