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The Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at @exeter.ac.uk is excited to be here and we are ready to connect!
Follow us to read about all the amazing things our HASS community is getting up to 💚 #exeterforever
The Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at @exeter.ac.uk is excited to be here and we are ready to connect!
Follow us to read about all the amazing things our HASS community is getting up to 💚 #exeterforever
Proxy voting advisory and research groups continue to be more transparent, report shows https://ow.ly/nUR650Xz7zU
Proxy voting advisory and research groups continue to be more transparent, report shows
Proxy voting advisory and research groups continue to be more transparent about the way they operate, a new report shows. Organisations supporting work to improve best practice had made improvements to the way they described
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December 2, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Proxy voting advisory and research groups continue to be more transparent, report shows https://ow.ly/nUR650Xz7zU
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We're very excited that our next research seminar will be given by Dr Lee Bray of Dartmoor National Park, giving us an update on the fascinating Cut Hill Bronze Age cist excavation. Thursday 4 Dec, 12.30pm. DM us for the Teams link if you'd like to join!
December 2, 2025 at 3:54 PM
We're very excited that our next research seminar will be given by Dr Lee Bray of Dartmoor National Park, giving us an update on the fascinating Cut Hill Bronze Age cist excavation. Thursday 4 Dec, 12.30pm. DM us for the Teams link if you'd like to join!
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Two weeks left in this term's Academic Competitions in Theology & Religion and Environmental Sciences! ✨ Great opportunity for students to enhance personal statements. Submit by 15 December to win a £100 voucher and a @UniofExeter hoodie! 🏆
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December 2, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Two weeks left in this term's Academic Competitions in Theology & Religion and Environmental Sciences! ✨ Great opportunity for students to enhance personal statements. Submit by 15 December to win a £100 voucher and a @UniofExeter hoodie! 🏆
ex.ac.uk/dXc
ex.ac.uk/dXc
Exeter scholars secure significant research funding to investigate the early history of Smallpox and Measles https://ow.ly/VEIP50XvU2t
Exeter scholars secure significant research funding to investigate the early history of Smallpox and Measles
The early histories of smallpox and measles – and the insight they might offer to contemporary health and medicine – will be under the microscope of a new research project. Pustules, Palaeogenetics and Pandemics from
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December 2, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Exeter scholars secure significant research funding to investigate the early history of Smallpox and Measles https://ow.ly/VEIP50XvU2t
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Congratulations to @crpr-exeter.bsky.social student Maeve Leith, who has been awarded a national ‘Centenary Award’ bursary from the NFU Mutual Charitable Trust to support her work to explore how land use decisions are made
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The NFU Mutual Charitable Trust Centenary Award 2025
The Centenary Award is a long-term scheme, run by the NFU Mutual Charitable Trust, and was launched in 2010 to celebrate the 100th birthday of NFU Mutual.
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December 1, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Congratulations to @crpr-exeter.bsky.social student Maeve Leith, who has been awarded a national ‘Centenary Award’ bursary from the NFU Mutual Charitable Trust to support her work to explore how land use decisions are made
www.nfumutual.co.uk/news-and-sto...
www.nfumutual.co.uk/news-and-sto...
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The Great Law Teachers Project by Dr Louise Loder and Prof. Greta Bosch will explore the qualities, practices & innovative pedagogies that define outstanding law teaching.
📢 Share your insights in the Project survey
👉 tinyurl.com/greatlawteac...
#AcademicSky #LegalEducation #ALTConference
📢 Share your insights in the Project survey
👉 tinyurl.com/greatlawteac...
#AcademicSky #LegalEducation #ALTConference
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December 1, 2025 at 3:57 PM
The Great Law Teachers Project by Dr Louise Loder and Prof. Greta Bosch will explore the qualities, practices & innovative pedagogies that define outstanding law teaching.
📢 Share your insights in the Project survey
👉 tinyurl.com/greatlawteac...
#AcademicSky #LegalEducation #ALTConference
📢 Share your insights in the Project survey
👉 tinyurl.com/greatlawteac...
#AcademicSky #LegalEducation #ALTConference
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We were delighted to welcome Harriet Richards to the #museum last week. As a child Harriet had an important role in Bill Douglas' 'Comrades', playing Charity Stansfield. Harriet brought her family in & it was great to hear her very warm memories of the film & working with Bill. #museumsky #cinemasky
December 1, 2025 at 2:54 PM
We were delighted to welcome Harriet Richards to the #museum last week. As a child Harriet had an important role in Bill Douglas' 'Comrades', playing Charity Stansfield. Harriet brought her family in & it was great to hear her very warm memories of the film & working with Bill. #museumsky #cinemasky
You are warmly invited to the CRPR Seminar with speaker Prof Michael Winter, celebrating his 70th year!
Date: 17 Dec
Time: 10:45
Venue: Queen's Building, LT1 (& online)
Please register to attend here: shorturl.at/ygX9j
@crpr-exeter.bsky.social
Date: 17 Dec
Time: 10:45
Venue: Queen's Building, LT1 (& online)
Please register to attend here: shorturl.at/ygX9j
@crpr-exeter.bsky.social
December 1, 2025 at 3:32 PM
You are warmly invited to the CRPR Seminar with speaker Prof Michael Winter, celebrating his 70th year!
Date: 17 Dec
Time: 10:45
Venue: Queen's Building, LT1 (& online)
Please register to attend here: shorturl.at/ygX9j
@crpr-exeter.bsky.social
Date: 17 Dec
Time: 10:45
Venue: Queen's Building, LT1 (& online)
Please register to attend here: shorturl.at/ygX9j
@crpr-exeter.bsky.social
Experts hail Cornwall as the ‘Engine Room’ of PM’s new Critical Minerals Strategy https://ow.ly/EQ5A50Xz7t3
Experts hail Cornwall as the ‘Engine Room’ of PM’s new Critical Minerals Strategy
The UK’s new Critical Minerals Strategy must make domestic extraction, refining, and recycling pillars of sovereign capability, experts have urged. The plan should define critical minerals as key to a broader political-economic reset that can
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December 1, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Experts hail Cornwall as the ‘Engine Room’ of PM’s new Critical Minerals Strategy https://ow.ly/EQ5A50Xz7t3
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Read Maeve Leith, @crpr-exeter.bsky.social PhD student's account of her guided walk in Dartmoor's Wistman's Wood with Tim Ferry of Moor Trees, which reflects on this important temperate rainforest's management, access, history and future www.linkedin.com/posts/maeve-...
Want to know more about the potential expansion of Wistman's Wood?
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The Dartmoor Society's latest publication includes my write-up of a fascinating walk and talk wit...
Want to know more about the potential expansion of Wistman's Wood?
https://lnkd.in/eKVFnNn6
The Dartmoor Society's latest publication includes my write-up of a fascinating walk and talk with Moor T...
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December 1, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Read Maeve Leith, @crpr-exeter.bsky.social PhD student's account of her guided walk in Dartmoor's Wistman's Wood with Tim Ferry of Moor Trees, which reflects on this important temperate rainforest's management, access, history and future www.linkedin.com/posts/maeve-...
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Listen to the new podcast about the amazing wartime life of Winston Churchill by @richardtoye.bsky.social from @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social @uoearchhist.bsky.social and Dr Warren Dockter. "Churchill: The Finest Half Hour" begins with the momentous events of 1939
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Winston Is Back - Episode 1: The Battle Begins
YouTube video by Churchill: The Finest Half Hour
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November 27, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Listen to the new podcast about the amazing wartime life of Winston Churchill by @richardtoye.bsky.social from @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social @uoearchhist.bsky.social and Dr Warren Dockter. "Churchill: The Finest Half Hour" begins with the momentous events of 1939
www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4-j...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4-j...
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Looking forward to next week's discussion of @jheathershaw.bsky.social's excellent and important book, Indulging Kleptocracy, co-authored with Tena Prelec and Tom Mayne, at @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social!
November 27, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Looking forward to next week's discussion of @jheathershaw.bsky.social's excellent and important book, Indulging Kleptocracy, co-authored with Tena Prelec and Tom Mayne, at @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social!
Small changes in turnout could substantially alter election results in the future, study warns https://ow.ly/Uay950XvTVg
Small changes in turnout could substantially alter election results in the future, study warns
Small changes in turnout could substantially alter election results in the future because the UK now has a multiparty system with majoritarian voting rules, a new study warns. Last year’s General Election, which saw a
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December 1, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Small changes in turnout could substantially alter election results in the future, study warns https://ow.ly/Uay950XvTVg
University experts feature on BBC podcast exploring the life and legacy of an ocean giant https://ow.ly/j5cv50XvT9G
University experts feature on BBC podcast exploring the life and legacy of an ocean giant
The story of a giant whale that died after becoming stranded on a Cornish beach, before being ‘inherited’ by the University of Exeter, has been told in a new BBC podcast. The Whale, Secrets of
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November 30, 2025 at 5:25 PM
University experts feature on BBC podcast exploring the life and legacy of an ocean giant https://ow.ly/j5cv50XvT9G
New study to show how diverse multicultural views about the body, mind and soul have influenced hospital design https://ow.ly/mgn350XvSF6
New study to show how diverse multicultural views about the body, mind and soul have influenced hospital design
A new study will show how diverse multicultural views about the body, mind and soul have influenced hospital design. Those behind the research hope the new insight into the history of medical buildings will help
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November 30, 2025 at 11:45 AM
New study to show how diverse multicultural views about the body, mind and soul have influenced hospital design https://ow.ly/mgn350XvSF6
Extensive dog diversity millennia before modern breeding practices https://ow.ly/Yx2E50XvT5Q
Extensive dog diversity millennia before modern breeding practices
A groundbreaking archaeological study has revealed when domestic dogs first began to show the remarkable diversity that characterises them today. By applying cutting-edge shape analysis to hundreds of archaeological specimens spanning tens of thousands of
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November 29, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Extensive dog diversity millennia before modern breeding practices https://ow.ly/Yx2E50XvT5Q
The law turns a “blind eye” to the severe financial consequences of being in an abusive relationship, study warns https://ow.ly/Fhzs50XvSAv
The law turns a “blind eye” to the severe financial consequences of being in an abusive relationship, study warns.
The law is failing victims and survivors because it is turning a “blind eye” to the long-lasting and severe financial consequences of being in an abusive relationship, a new study warns. The law should be
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November 29, 2025 at 11:00 AM
The law turns a “blind eye” to the severe financial consequences of being in an abusive relationship, study warns https://ow.ly/Fhzs50XvSAv
Dignitaries gather for the premiere of Normandy documentary at the University of Exeter https://ow.ly/NeOU50Xz7Iz
November 28, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Dignitaries gather for the premiere of Normandy documentary at the University of Exeter https://ow.ly/NeOU50Xz7Iz
Devon’s elite attempts to “police” patriotism during World War One had limited success, research shows https://ow.ly/S38B50XvSvT
Devon’s elite attempts to “police” patriotism during World War One had limited success, research shows
Rich and powerful Devonians attempted to “police” patriotism during World War One because they were dismayed by an indifferent response to the European crisis by some in the county, research shows. These ‘provincial patriots’ were
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November 28, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Devon’s elite attempts to “police” patriotism during World War One had limited success, research shows https://ow.ly/S38B50XvSvT
Theatre and Performance scholar wins international awards for experimental new film https://ow.ly/MX8K50XvSpa
November 27, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Theatre and Performance scholar wins international awards for experimental new film https://ow.ly/MX8K50XvSpa
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Click this link to explore some of the DH Lab's 3D models on Sketchfab:
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November 25, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Click this link to explore some of the DH Lab's 3D models on Sketchfab:
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#Digital #Humanities #DigitalHumanities #HASS #Photogrammetry #3DModelling #3DImaging #DHLab @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social @exeter.ac.uk #Exeter #Arts #Culture #Heritage #DigitalResearch #DH #3D
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Award-winning producer Gub Neal returns to the University of Exeter https://ow.ly/z1BN50XvT1Y
Award-winning producer Gub Neal returns to the University of Exeter
An Emmy-award-winning television producer has paid a special visit to the University of Exeter to meet students seeking to follow in his footsteps into the creative industries. Gub Neal, creator of the acclaimed television drama
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November 26, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Award-winning producer Gub Neal returns to the University of Exeter https://ow.ly/z1BN50XvT1Y
Myths about rapid spread of the Black Death influenced by single “literary tale”, experts show https://ow.ly/tk7u50XvSgz
Myths about rapid spread of the Black Death influenced by single “literary tale”, experts show
Myths about how the Black Death travelled quickly across Asia, ravaging Silk Route communities, date back to a single fourteenth-century source, experts have found. Modern portrayals of the plague quickly moving across the continent, following
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November 26, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Myths about rapid spread of the Black Death influenced by single “literary tale”, experts show https://ow.ly/tk7u50XvSgz
New historical prize launched in memory of Second World War veteran https://ow.ly/moOs50XvSee
New historical prize launched in memory of Second World War veteran
The relationship between 20th-century conflict and the challenges facing the world today is to be the focus of a new history prize launched for secondary school pupils in Cornwall. The Tony Hibbert Prize, established in
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November 25, 2025 at 2:01 PM
New historical prize launched in memory of Second World War veteran https://ow.ly/moOs50XvSee
Post Office cases cast doubt on the “golden thread” of British justice, study says https://ow.ly/FoRT50XvU66
Post Office cases cast doubt on the “golden thread” of British justice, study says
The “golden thread” of British justice – the principle that people are innocent until proven guilty – has been exposed by the Post Office Scandal as more deeply tarnished than previously thought, a new study
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November 25, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Post Office cases cast doubt on the “golden thread” of British justice, study says https://ow.ly/FoRT50XvU66