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F Myers @drf1.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Hello Amal! Is there a ‘book titles for review list’ possible? I like to get my students to do one but its a matter of luck to spot a live list with oh yes please titles in the wild 😀

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F Myers @drf1.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Nice to see you both 😃

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F Myers @drf1.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Please do! They were all amazing and so much help as a PhD student 😃

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F Myers @drf1.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Librarians are the best! I remember asking a @uomlibrary.bsky.social librarian for help on a Max Weber reference I couldn’t find for a journal years ago (after losing hope!). Within 2 mins they realised I had a US edition and reviewer was referring to a UK one. Without the actual reference! Bravo!

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F Myers @drf1.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

And a similar dishonourable mention to Sky who put me through a similar ordeal and would only communicate via text message on their app. Took hours and I lost count of the ‘this is your last chance’. If you’d let me go painlessly, then I might have used you again - but now I never, never will.

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F Myers @drf1.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I’ve just finished it, and it’s well worth a (horrifying) read. She’s very brave.

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F Myers @drf1.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

‘Any problems use IT self-serve’. (Only available to actual members of staff). Alternatively here is a group email (‘this mailbox is no longer monitored). Try previous contacts (‘I’m leaving the university on VS from …any problem pls contact group email’) Ag.

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F Myers @drf1.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

I agree. I found the analogy with the banking sector prior to 2008 to be really instructive. Wd like to see more analysis of managing financial impact from information reporting (touched on). + sections on rebalancing teaching activity spend vs marketing and fostering cooperation not competition.

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F Myers @drf1.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

RIP Jürgen Habermas. To me, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere is one of the most meaningful books I ever read.

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F Myers @drf1.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Thank you 🙏🏼 for all of these lovely lists! Much appreciated

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F Myers @drf1.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Hi are these only open to UoM folks? Would love to attend online on 5 Mar if that’s possible as an alum? Thanks if you can let me know

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F Myers @drf1.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

I’d love something new from Sarah Waters. (This is next best 😀) The Paying Guests is brilliant - although The Night Watch is my very favourite!

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F Myers @drf1.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... Call for papers: work-based learning conference for doctoral and early career researchers - OU Milton Keynes 30 April 2026.

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Work-based learning: Call for papers | Dr. Fran Myers

Work-based learning: Call for papers

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F Myers @drf1.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

This looks terrific. I know hauntology is a minority interest in academia, but great fan of Justine Pors work in this area. Look forward to reading in due course!

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F Myers @drf1.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Me too! Uncomfortable being on the other side of the fence as well this time ….

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F Myers @drf1.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

I think your thread worked just as well for the anxious parents 😀 thank you!

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F Myers @drf1.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

If you are the line manager or workplace mentor of a UK apprentice, we would love to hear from you about your experiences for a research study.

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F Myers @drf1.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

doi.org/10.1108/HESW... Been interesting to work on this via Higher Educaton Skills and Workbased Learning Journal with @emeraldpublishing.bsky.social with a more explicit policy agenda. Paper looks at degree apprenticeships and how there should be more benefits for line managers who support them.

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Problematising the unseen role of the line manager in degree apprenticeships: where do we go from here?

Purpose. The paper examines the key – yet often unseen, under-appreciated and under-studied role in learning played by the line manager on degree apprenticeship programmes.Design/methodology/approach....

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Wonkhe @wonkhe.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

This week on Wonkhe: Research by a team at The Open University suggests that, when it comes to degree apprenticeship independence and success, prior experience in the workplace makes a difference

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Refocusing apprenticeships towards younger learners will require a renewed focus on student support

Research by a team at The Open University suggests that, when it comes to degree apprenticeship independence and success, prior experience in the workplace makes a difference

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F Myers @drf1.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Thanks for sharing our early findings, @wonkhe.bsky.social - any government moves to shift apprenticeships more heavily towards younger learners will have implications for how we support and retain them - including greater investment in workplace mentorship structures.

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F Myers @drf1.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

We will order! See you soon Fran 😀x

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F Myers @drf1.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

This was my first submission to @managementlearning.bsky.social - on disruptive emotions in pandemic working. If you are thinking of submitting here - wld highlight engaged and supportive process from reviewers and editor that made such positive improvements to paper. Thank you 🙏🏼

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F Myers @drf1.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

It's been five years since that strange and silent spring of lockdown. The pandemic affected so many of us in so many ways. Article has been written both with sadness and a sense of privilege in tracing otherwise lost voices. Thanks to Management Learning for publishing. doi.org/10.1177/1350...

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‘Lost futures’ and undermined pasts of the pandemic: Digital lecturers’ ghostly reflections of time, self and the university - Fran Myers, Hilary Collins, Hayley Glover, 2025

This article seeks to bear witness to the spectres of uncertainty and anxiety experienced through workplace isolations as university teaching occupied solely di...

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F Myers @drf1.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Some great advice here. Good luck to anyone at risk or dealing with ‘next’ right now. Useful advice I was given last time - if you are part way through a paper or two, and want to use some time to write - make sure you get everything you need before you lose library access …

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F Myers @drf1.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Wow thanks so much all. So interesting (and fascinating displacement activity from my usual organisation studies stuff!) Thank you, will certainly have a read of your thesis, Will.

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F Myers @drf1.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Yes, it’s that word ‘perilous’ that underscores the connector for me. I think there is also an earlier quote on Galadriel being fair and perilous (will have to look that one up!)

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F Myers @drf1.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Lovely! I always find myself thinking of Keats ‘To a nightingale’ when I read the Lorien scenes… ‘do I wake or sleep?’ I am no Tolkien scholar though - does he ever talk about Keats or is it one of those random connections you make as a reader?

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F Myers @drf1.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Yes this. Original request arrived mid-marking on Tuesday afternoon. Reminder on Sunday, with the hurt ‘shame you didn’t want to review’ coming 45 minutes after the reminder…. Soz but get paid to mark assignments first ….

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F Myers @drf1.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

A terrific article. Depressing, but beautifully and evocatively written on a subject that’s worrying us in higher education daily.

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F Myers @drf1.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Seconded! It’s not my field but would be amazing to occasionally get such seminars online.

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F Myers @drf1.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Would like to thank editorial team and anonymous but no less appreciated reviewers at @berj-2025.bsky.social - delighted to get this one in bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... Now hoping to extend to further study on governmentality impacts on professionals coming into teaching ….

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<em>British Educational Research Journal</em> | BERA Journal | Wiley Online Library

In this paper, we entwine sympathetic concepts of liminality and workplace identity to capture processual, agential and emotional elements of transition for established professionals from other secto...

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F Myers @drf1.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

I’ve picked up ‘reverse editing’ following someone else’s tip recently. Start with your concluding paragraph and work upwards - does your argument still work? Really good for spotting if your conclusion is a bit …fadey…

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F Myers @drf1.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Saw your LinkedIn post, just joining here myself ….(slowly!)

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