Samantha Evans
@samisatwork.bsky.social
Lecturer and researcher, Royal Holloway, University of London. Interested in all things class, culture, education, equality, history, museums
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🗨️ Join us for the debate "Critique is the critique of power". Our speakers are sociologists who have been invited to speak in favour of or in opposition to a set motion around the concept of critique.
🗓️ Wed 21 May 2025
🕔 6.30pm to 8pm
📍 Old Theatre, Old Building; or online
🗓️ Wed 21 May 2025
🕔 6.30pm to 8pm
📍 Old Theatre, Old Building; or online
Critique is the critique of power
6.30pm Weds 21st May | Nick Couldry, Claire Laurier Decoteau, Monika Krause | Free public event at LSE
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May 7, 2025 at 1:04 PM
🗨️ Join us for the debate "Critique is the critique of power". Our speakers are sociologists who have been invited to speak in favour of or in opposition to a set motion around the concept of critique.
🗓️ Wed 21 May 2025
🕔 6.30pm to 8pm
📍 Old Theatre, Old Building; or online
🗓️ Wed 21 May 2025
🕔 6.30pm to 8pm
📍 Old Theatre, Old Building; or online
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I'm hosting three free one-hour seminars starting next week as tasters to my full 1-day seminars with @instats.bsky.social and you are invited to join!
My first free seminar is:
Creative Research Methods, Tuesday 13th May: instats.org/seminar/crea...
I hope to see you there!
#CRMethods
My first free seminar is:
Creative Research Methods, Tuesday 13th May: instats.org/seminar/crea...
I hope to see you there!
#CRMethods
Creative Research Methods (Free Seminar) - Live-streaming:
This Instats seminar on Creative Research Methods (Free Seminar) taught by Helen Kara will help you take your research to the next level. Sign up today!
instats.org
May 7, 2025 at 7:08 AM
I'm hosting three free one-hour seminars starting next week as tasters to my full 1-day seminars with @instats.bsky.social and you are invited to join!
My first free seminar is:
Creative Research Methods, Tuesday 13th May: instats.org/seminar/crea...
I hope to see you there!
#CRMethods
My first free seminar is:
Creative Research Methods, Tuesday 13th May: instats.org/seminar/crea...
I hope to see you there!
#CRMethods
A conference on creative research methods! Not been before but looks good.
Our fabulous consulting editor @drhelenkara.bsky.social is hosting the third Creative Research Methods conference! Join Helen and many of the Journal of Creative Research Methods friends, editorial board, and authors this September in Manchester! lnkd.in/ej4BXVpt
May 7, 2025 at 7:43 AM
A conference on creative research methods! Not been before but looks good.
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Love to refuse a prompt. static1.squarespace.com/static/53a4b...
March 22, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Love to refuse a prompt. static1.squarespace.com/static/53a4b...
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If you're an early career researcher - perhaps based in a fledgling authoritarian state - and want an out, @britishacademy.bsky.social offer 2-year fellowships to come to a UK university (including relocation costs and research funds).
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/inte...
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/inte...
International Fellowships 2025
The International Fellowships Programme enables researchers to work for two years at a UK institution with the aim of building a globally connected, mobile research and innovation workforce.
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk
February 8, 2025 at 10:42 AM
If you're an early career researcher - perhaps based in a fledgling authoritarian state - and want an out, @britishacademy.bsky.social offer 2-year fellowships to come to a UK university (including relocation costs and research funds).
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/inte...
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/inte...
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Just received an email saying that it's not advisable to include the following words in future applications for research funding to the US DOT. Here we are.
February 6, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Just received an email saying that it's not advisable to include the following words in future applications for research funding to the US DOT. Here we are.
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Trump's treasury nominee Scott Bessent, who is worth ~$500 million, said extending Trump's tax cuts for the rich is "the most important economic issue of the day."
When asked if we should raise the federal minimum wage above the current paltry $7.25 an hour, he said, "No, sir."
When asked if we should raise the federal minimum wage above the current paltry $7.25 an hour, he said, "No, sir."
January 27, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Trump's treasury nominee Scott Bessent, who is worth ~$500 million, said extending Trump's tax cuts for the rich is "the most important economic issue of the day."
When asked if we should raise the federal minimum wage above the current paltry $7.25 an hour, he said, "No, sir."
When asked if we should raise the federal minimum wage above the current paltry $7.25 an hour, he said, "No, sir."
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Big tech is now formally in league with the far-right. The resistance to it will be personal and political iandunt.substack.com/p/how-to-res...
How to resist the tech overlords
Big tech has now made its position clear. It is on the far-right. Here's what happens next.
iandunt.substack.com
January 24, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Big tech is now formally in league with the far-right. The resistance to it will be personal and political iandunt.substack.com/p/how-to-res...
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PhD SCHOLARSHIP ALERT!! Fantastic opportunity to work with Dr Silvia Avram & Dr Laura Fumagalli - using new data to understand more about households living in debt - with the Money and Pensions Service. www.senss.ac.uk/collaborativ...
January 6, 2025 at 12:33 PM
PhD SCHOLARSHIP ALERT!! Fantastic opportunity to work with Dr Silvia Avram & Dr Laura Fumagalli - using new data to understand more about households living in debt - with the Money and Pensions Service. www.senss.ac.uk/collaborativ...
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Call for papers for #EGOS2025 of Sub-theme 02: #EDI in Difficult Times: Organizing Solidarity beyond Opposition and Resistance
Convenors: Zeynep Gülru Göker, Yvonne W.M. Benschop, Jasmin Mahadevan
Part of SWG2: Pushing the Boundaries of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
www.egos.org/jart/prj3/eg...
Convenors: Zeynep Gülru Göker, Yvonne W.M. Benschop, Jasmin Mahadevan
Part of SWG2: Pushing the Boundaries of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
www.egos.org/jart/prj3/eg...
EGOS - SUB-THEMES [main Colloquium]: Call for Short Papers - European Group for Organizational Studies
www.egos.org
November 17, 2024 at 7:47 PM
Call for papers for #EGOS2025 of Sub-theme 02: #EDI in Difficult Times: Organizing Solidarity beyond Opposition and Resistance
Convenors: Zeynep Gülru Göker, Yvonne W.M. Benschop, Jasmin Mahadevan
Part of SWG2: Pushing the Boundaries of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
www.egos.org/jart/prj3/eg...
Convenors: Zeynep Gülru Göker, Yvonne W.M. Benschop, Jasmin Mahadevan
Part of SWG2: Pushing the Boundaries of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
www.egos.org/jart/prj3/eg...
Thinking of learning how to use AI for teaching? Read this first! @benjaminjriley.bsky.social
NEW POST: What is the Pedagogy of the Depressed? It's what happens when you sit through three online "AI for educators" courses as I have recently.
open.substack.com/pub/buildcog...
open.substack.com/pub/buildcog...
Pedagogy of the Depressed
An illustrated guide to a smattering of online AI courses for educators
open.substack.com
December 4, 2024 at 8:12 PM
Thinking of learning how to use AI for teaching? Read this first! @benjaminjriley.bsky.social
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Gregg Wallace says complaints came from ‘middle-class women of a certain age’
Not the best defence. Also a bit of gauntlet other women to come forward.
Implication - working class or young women would read this as banter. I suspect this isn’t true.
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
Gregg Wallace says complaints came from ‘middle-class women of a certain age’
Wallace stepped back from role on MasterChef last week while allegations of sexual misconduct are investigated
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2024 at 10:29 AM
Gregg Wallace says complaints came from ‘middle-class women of a certain age’
Not the best defence. Also a bit of gauntlet other women to come forward.
Implication - working class or young women would read this as banter. I suspect this isn’t true.
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
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Does everyone know about Project Gutenberg? E-books for free. The world’s great literature here, with focus on older works for free. Digitized and diligently proofread by thousands of volunteers.
Please share.
Please share.
Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg is a library of free eBooks.
www.gutenberg.org
November 29, 2024 at 4:57 PM
Does everyone know about Project Gutenberg? E-books for free. The world’s great literature here, with focus on older works for free. Digitized and diligently proofread by thousands of volunteers.
Please share.
Please share.
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Poem by Joseph Fasano
November 29, 2024 at 8:57 PM
Poem by Joseph Fasano
This looks like a great opportunity to co curate the sensational museum
Do you love museums? Do you define yourself as D/deaf, disabled or neurodivergent? There's still a full weekend to prepare your application to become a Curating Visibility Fellow. You can find BSL, subtitled and Easy Read information about the roles on the website. screensouth.org/events/curat...
Curating Visibility Fellowships Recruitment – Screen South
screensouth.org
November 28, 2024 at 11:47 PM
This looks like a great opportunity to co curate the sensational museum
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New essay on cultural policy & the Labour government from @orianbrook.bsky.social & I, now available in this new book www.bitebackpublishing.com/books/britai...
November 28, 2024 at 11:41 AM
New essay on cultural policy & the Labour government from @orianbrook.bsky.social & I, now available in this new book www.bitebackpublishing.com/books/britai...
Class and inequality researchers! Any of you been involved in a project using your research to make a difference in the workplace? What were the challenges? Just starting one in museums so interested in sharing good tips and advice #academicsky #class #inequality
November 27, 2024 at 5:31 PM
Class and inequality researchers! Any of you been involved in a project using your research to make a difference in the workplace? What were the challenges? Just starting one in museums so interested in sharing good tips and advice #academicsky #class #inequality
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Delivering peer review training this morning & including this info:
“The total time reviewers globally worked on peer reviews was over 100 million hours in 2020, equivalent to over 15 thousand years.”
A better system needed?
researchintegrityjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
#AcademicSky
“The total time reviewers globally worked on peer reviews was over 100 million hours in 2020, equivalent to over 15 thousand years.”
A better system needed?
researchintegrityjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
#AcademicSky
A billion-dollar donation: estimating the cost of researchers’ time spent on peer review - Research Integrity and Peer Review
Background The amount and value of researchers’ peer review work is critical for academia and journal publishing. However, this labor is under-recognized, its magnitude is unknown, and alternative way...
researchintegrityjournal.biomedcentral.com
November 26, 2024 at 11:36 AM
Delivering peer review training this morning & including this info:
“The total time reviewers globally worked on peer reviews was over 100 million hours in 2020, equivalent to over 15 thousand years.”
A better system needed?
researchintegrityjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
#AcademicSky
“The total time reviewers globally worked on peer reviews was over 100 million hours in 2020, equivalent to over 15 thousand years.”
A better system needed?
researchintegrityjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
#AcademicSky
First proper post. Looking forward to connecting with people, developing ideas and sharing good research that makes our working lives better and more inclusive. #AcademicSky
November 24, 2024 at 7:16 PM
First proper post. Looking forward to connecting with people, developing ideas and sharing good research that makes our working lives better and more inclusive. #AcademicSky
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The photo that inspired Steve McQueen to write Blitz. Now available on Apple TV. ♥️🎥
November 24, 2024 at 7:54 AM
The photo that inspired Steve McQueen to write Blitz. Now available on Apple TV. ♥️🎥
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Llevo toda la mañana riéndome con este magnífico estado de la cuestión de la sociología (creado por @kjhealy.bsky.social)
November 21, 2024 at 12:44 PM
Llevo toda la mañana riéndome con este magnífico estado de la cuestión de la sociología (creado por @kjhealy.bsky.social)
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New research published today finds that the performance gap between the state and private school sectors in England disappears once socioeconomic background is controlled for.
However, inequality still exists amongst the creative arts subjects. Read more below 👇
However, inequality still exists amongst the creative arts subjects. Read more below 👇
State schools have closed the gap with private schools in GCSE results, once we adjust for socioeconomic differences in their intakes.
New findings in our paper published today in Cambridge Review of Education: https://doi.org/10.1080/0305764X.2024.2420611
New findings in our paper published today in Cambridge Review of Education: https://doi.org/10.1080/0305764X.2024.2420611
Private school pupils’ performance in GCSEs (and IGCSEs)
Using rich longitudinal data from the UK’s Millennium Cohort Study (MCS), the authors compare the performance of private and state school pupils in age 16 national examinations (GCSEs) in England, ...
doi.org
November 21, 2024 at 9:35 AM
New research published today finds that the performance gap between the state and private school sectors in England disappears once socioeconomic background is controlled for.
However, inequality still exists amongst the creative arts subjects. Read more below 👇
However, inequality still exists amongst the creative arts subjects. Read more below 👇
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🚨 Free webinar on inequalities in creative industries 🚨
Our upcoming webinar will focus on class inequalities in access to careers in the creative industries, as well as in access to creative degrees.
Join our expert panelists on 4th December ⤵️
www.suttontrust.com/a-class-act-...
Our upcoming webinar will focus on class inequalities in access to careers in the creative industries, as well as in access to creative degrees.
Join our expert panelists on 4th December ⤵️
www.suttontrust.com/a-class-act-...
November 19, 2024 at 12:06 PM
🚨 Free webinar on inequalities in creative industries 🚨
Our upcoming webinar will focus on class inequalities in access to careers in the creative industries, as well as in access to creative degrees.
Join our expert panelists on 4th December ⤵️
www.suttontrust.com/a-class-act-...
Our upcoming webinar will focus on class inequalities in access to careers in the creative industries, as well as in access to creative degrees.
Join our expert panelists on 4th December ⤵️
www.suttontrust.com/a-class-act-...
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Couple of highlights from the @suttontrust.bsky.social new report 'A Class Act: Social mobility and the creative industries' www.suttontrust.com/our-research...
I'll focus on Higher Education (which @orianbrook.bsky.social @markrt.bsky.social & I worked on)
I'll focus on Higher Education (which @orianbrook.bsky.social @markrt.bsky.social & I worked on)
November 13, 2024 at 8:38 AM
Couple of highlights from the @suttontrust.bsky.social new report 'A Class Act: Social mobility and the creative industries' www.suttontrust.com/our-research...
I'll focus on Higher Education (which @orianbrook.bsky.social @markrt.bsky.social & I worked on)
I'll focus on Higher Education (which @orianbrook.bsky.social @markrt.bsky.social & I worked on)