Thank you, Michele, it was great to meet you too. Thanks for your encouragement. I hope your talk in London went well and best of luck with your onward journey too x

Thanks, Rob! I can definitely see the (grimly) funny side of it. About ten years ago I started writing a comic novel set on a university campus. I reckon this might be the time to return to it.

That’s one of the reasons I didn’t use it in my post. It’s a label that obfuscates the true horrors…

I might return to my novel but reframe it in the light of my experience in the neoliberal university…!

The book comes out of our collaborative research on the long afterlives of Britain's Victorian prison estate. The project is lead by Dominique Moran with @yvonnejewkes.bsky.social and Jennifer Turner and funded by the ESRC. It's been such a privilege to work with all of them.

Omg Tracy these are all GENIUS!!!