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Phil Hubbard

@gypjh2000.bsky.social
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Professor of Urban Studies, King's College London; Editor Urban Studies. Part-time psychogeographer, landscape punk and walker.

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Phil Hubbard @gypjh2000.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Moving house soon so selling the last copies of this i have lying round house for £5. Royalty goes to Kent Refugee Action Network. Psychogeography, coastal perambulation and the end of Europe discussed, still sadly relevant 5 years after i wrote it www.ebay.co.uk/itm/19856609...
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Phil Hubbard @gypjh2000.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Lovely review of Listening to Landscape from Andrea Povoni here: antipodeonline.org/2026/04/28/l...
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Listening to Landscape: Hauntology and the Echoes of Albion - Antipode Online
Andrea Pavoni (Instituto Universitário de Lisboa) on Phil Hubbard’s Listening to Landscape: Hauntology and the Echoes of Albion Read Review
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Phil Hubbard @gypjh2000.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
As I have predicted elsewhere, UK’s biggest student housing provider hit by fall in international enrolment | Students | The Guardian share.google/393azuGQN8rX...
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UK’s biggest student housing provider hit by fall in international enrolment
Unite Group cuts rents at some universities and raises cash by selling London site to joint venture for £186m
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Phil Hubbard @gypjh2000.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Housing sector leaders call for action to fill empty homes - BBC News share.google/ln63uCL3hliR...
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Housing sector leaders call for action to fill empty homes
Estimates suggest more than a million homes in England are currently unoccupied.
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Phil Hubbard @gypjh2000.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Next Urban Salon event, open to all, 6th March @ucl.ac.uk www.eventbrite.be/e/book-launc...
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Book Launch: The Chaos Precinct: Johannesburg as a Port City (Tanya Zack)
Join us for Tanya Zack’s book launch, exploring the cross-continental trade flows that have shaped central Johannesburg’s Ethiopian Quarter.
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Phil Hubbard @gypjh2000.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/uk-u...
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The UK universities cutting geography have lost their bearings
From climate change to geopolitics, the knowledge, skills and insights of geographers have never been more relevant, say five professors
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Phil Hubbard @gypjh2000.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Coming in March as part of theurbansalon.com series, book discussion about Cinema and the City in an era of Planetary Urbanisation with Nitin Bathia and responses from @hyunshin.bsky.social Myra Geogiou and Monica Degan. 10 March @lselondon.bsky.social
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Phil Hubbard @gypjh2000.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
New paper on student housing and governmentality: planning and licensing law treating students as a population apart!
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Phil Hubbard @gypjh2000.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Are we really surprised student accommodation is so ridiculously expensive given student debt de facto supports an asset class which reaps profit for investors? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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'High accommodation costs pushing out York students'
Students' union claims rents have almost doubled in six years and student loans have not kept pace.
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Phil Hubbard @gypjh2000.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
The British honours system is corrupt and disgusting and any educated person who accepts one goes down in my estimation - especially if it's a VC who is closing a geography department, and who was born in a country subjugated by the British empire. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/new-yea...
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New Year Honours 2026: knighthood for Leicester vice-chancellor
Professors from UCL and Plymouth Marjon University receive damehoods, while four vice-chancellors commended
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Phil Hubbard @gypjh2000.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Our research on small homes looking at student housing too - especially as some Purpose Built Student Accommodation will end up being let to post-students! But is living in a small self-contained unit good for mental health? Are shared houses or HMO better? www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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‘Lonely, terrifying and scary’: 70% of students in UK university halls feel isolated, poll shows
Students blame reliance on phones plus pressure of accommodation costs for lack of social life
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Phil Hubbard @gypjh2000.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
We are doing an online webinar on space standards and small homes in England for the Chartered Institute of Housing Jan 14th 1300. Register here >>> www.cih.org/events/small...
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Small Homes in England: Panacea or Problem?
Urban densification is mooted as a solution to the housing crisis. But are smaller homes part of the problem?
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Phil Hubbard @gypjh2000.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
This highlights some of the obvious implications of densification and living small - no living room/lounge, no room for socialising, the end of the house party etc etc. @nospacelikehome.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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The death of the living room: ‘It’s hard to invite people over – not everyone wants to sit on a bed’
The number of rental properties without a lounge is surging, and people are having to eat and socialise in kitchens, bedrooms and stairwells. How can you relax and build community without a communal a...
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Phil Hubbard @gypjh2000.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Today I am remembering my former colleague Jo Bullard who has died at just 56. A very supportive, encouraging, assiduous geographer, it is impossible to imagine @lborogeog.bsky.social without her. I know her passing has affected many very deeply, my thoughts with them on day of her funeral. RIP.
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Phil Hubbard @gypjh2000.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Am hearing terrible news about closure of Leics Human Geography degree @ucu.org.uk a proud dept with strong research tradition! www.leicester.news/university-o...
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University of Leicester moves forward with plans to cut 150 jobs
A 'large number of staff' across several schools could be impacted
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Phil Hubbard @gypjh2000.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Im speaking about our small homes research in an UGRG webinar about housing, gentrification and financialisation of property 31 October 1300-1400. cuhk.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #Housing #Inequality #Gentrification #planning @rgsibg.bsky.social
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Phil Hubbard @gypjh2000.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
It's now a real thing. Hardback and expensive but hopefully in time floppy and cheap. Join us at the launch on 21st Nov in London - see Eventbrite for free tickets www.eventbrite.com/e/listening-... @oldweirdalbion.bsky.social @claypipemusic.bsky.social @ghostboxrecords.bsky.social
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Phil Hubbard @gypjh2000.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
New open access paper on housing densification and the regulation of the 'shrinking' home in an increasingly neoliberal regulatory environment @kbrickell.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social @jreades.bsky.social
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Phil Hubbard @gypjh2000.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
New piece here: Making Sense of Multispecies Cities journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.... @dialogueshg.bsky.social
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Phil Hubbard @gypjh2000.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
I'm cited in here about the role of upscale student accommodation in the crisis of housing affordability in our major cities www.timeshighereducation.com/news/ultra-v... #housing #gentrification www.nospacelikehome.study
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‘Ultra-volatile’ enrolments cause ‘turbulence’ in student housing
Developers fear ‘glory days’ of non-stop building over as some areas face over-supply problems while city centre overcrowding intensifies
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Phil Hubbard @gypjh2000.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Just realised 20 years since this was published: Hubbard, P. (2005). Accommodating otherness: anti‐asylum centre protest and the maintenance of white privilege. Transactions of the institute of British Geographers, 30(1), 52-65. rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers | RGS Journal | Wiley Online Library
Geographers have recently progressed the debate on NIMBYism by demonstrating that opposition to new development is frequently motivated by white residents’ desire to exclude non-white groups. In this...
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Phil Hubbard @gypjh2000.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
In a nation full of bigotry, why should we engage with the work of musicians who are inspired by the English landscape? Is it possible to be critically nostalgic? kingsglobalaffairs.substack.com/p/listening-...
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Listening to Landscape: Tuning-in to the Ghosts of England
Contemporary electronic and experimental musicians are using sound to summon landscapes, memories, and ghosts of a disappearing England.
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Phil Hubbard @gypjh2000.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Book Launch for Listening to Landscape, King's College 21 Nov 1900. Hauntology/psychogeography/music: free event with music from The Hardy Tree @claypipemusic.bsky.social & Stonecirclesampler with @oldweirdalbion.bsky.social plus Jim Jupp & Oliver Cherer. Grab tickets from Eventbrite, going fast!
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Phil Hubbard @gypjh2000.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Nice piece from Tim White on the housing crisis. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Across Europe, the financial sector has pushed up house prices. It's a political timebomb | Tim White
We’ve been living in a great experiment: can finance provide basic human rights such as housing? The answer is increasingly no, says researcher and writer Tim White
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Phil Hubbard @gypjh2000.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
The border spectacle. For our education? Amusement? Outrage? Whatever, I'm depressed this is being played out for cameras. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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French police slash inflatable migrant boat heading to UK
Watch BBC footage of French police destroying a boat in the English Channel, a move the UK describes as
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Phil Hubbard @gypjh2000.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Some more stuff on fishing, Englishness and identity at the Kent coast here: kingsglobalaffairs.substack.com/p/oysters-ow...
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Oysters, Ownership, and Outrage: The Battle for Whitstable’s Shoreline
Once a symbol of Kentish pride and prosperity, oysters are now at the heart of a heated debate along the North Kent coast - igniting cultural, environmental and political tensions.
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Phil Hubbard @gypjh2000.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
The risk of unrepresentative REF returns hasn’t gone away wonkhe.com/blogs/the-ri...
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The risk of unrepresentative REF returns hasn’t gone away
Anton Muscatelli, Maria Delgado and Miles Padgett consider the latest REF guidance, and warn of possible unintended consequences in how removing restrictions on output numbers will play out Anton Musc...
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Phil Hubbard @gypjh2000.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
New paper by Fraser Curry @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social @urbanfutures.bsky.social from his masters' dissertation - amazing stuff on property guardianship in urban Senegal journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Phil Hubbard @gypjh2000.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Thu: i'm speaking about hauntology, gentrification and Englishness at this lovely little thing in Plymouth. Previewing some of stuff in my new book on hauntronica and music for @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social "Listening to Landscape" (out Nov?) www.legalscholars.ac.uk/event/confer....
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Annual University of Plymouth Criminology Conference
What's on at the University of Plymouth: Annual University of Plymouth Criminology Conference. Ghosts of futures, pasts and presents: The hauntology of...
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Phil Hubbard @gypjh2000.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Great to be part of a @legalgeolsa.bsky.social meet up yesterday where we organised, discussed and debated. Lots of great future plans for conferences, workshops and perhaps even a journal for Legal Geography. Watch this space! www.clg.place
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CLG Place
The site is a place for the sharing of scholarship in the field of critical legal geography. Through a directory of scholars and information about publications, events and research networks, the site ...
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Phil Hubbard @gypjh2000.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Personal stress is not work related says theorist of neoliberal governmentality nation.cymru/news/most-st...
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Most stress felt by academics after huge job cuts proposal was personal and not work-related, says Cardiff University Vice Chancellor
Martin Shipton Cardiff University’s embattled Vice Chancellor Wendy Larner has told a Senedd committee that most of the stress endured by the university’s academic staff since the announcement of a ma...
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Phil Hubbard @gypjh2000.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
@REF2029 shameful. Will @ucu.org.uk act on news that we can sack people and still use their publications in the next REF? At a time of redundancies this is tone deaf at best! www.researchprofessional.com/0/rr/news/uk...
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Phil Hubbard @gypjh2000.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Im speaking today at the London Boundary conference @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social and to celebrate you can buy my book 30% off - all my royalty to Kent Refugee Action Network @_KRAN_
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Phil Hubbard @gypjh2000.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
I'm keynote at 7th London International Boundary Conference, 12/13 June, talking about Borderlands: Identity and Belonging at Edge of England @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social @kings-sga.bsky.social student tx £15 including food/coffee www.londoninternationalboundaryconference.com
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Phil Hubbard @gypjh2000.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Urban Salon event upcoming with @lorettaclees.bsky.social 20 June at LSE with @hyunshin.bsky.social - a must for those interested in gentrification and its displacements!
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Phil Hubbard @gypjh2000.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
We teach a mix of UK, EU and International students on this masters - why not join us @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social @kings-sga.bsky.social in the dept of geography for this programme which offers critical perspectives on sustainable urbanism? www.youtube.com/watch?v=-b4b...
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Introducing: MSc Sustainable Cities, King's College London
YouTube video by Global Affairs, King's College London
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Phil Hubbard @gypjh2000.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
I'll be talkiing to @laurieparsons.bsky.social about his new book Carbon Colonialism in Brighton next month. A great book, as the white admiral that landed on it yesterday can testify! ropetacklecentre.co.uk/events/city-...
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Phil Hubbard @gypjh2000.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
One for legal geographers: I flew over the A69 Castres - Toulouse motorway, 45% finished, at w/e. They stopped work on it in Feb when courts ruled the environmental costs outweigh the public interest. Goes to Senate tomorrow. MPs likely to override judicial authority: test case for environmental law
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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
We've written an open letter to RGS/IBG re: Supreme Court ruling + EHRC update. If you're an academic geographer (broadly conceived) at any career stage anywhere in the world, please read, consider signing, and share (closes 1700 GMT 30 April) docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Open letter to RGS on Supreme Court and EHRC events April 2025
If you are an academic geographer (broadly conceived) of any career stage, To sign the open letter please fill in this form: https://forms.gle/AmjaJh37xLt4CMwx5. Your signature will be added manually....
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Ann Memmott @annmemmott.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
The British Medical Association describe the Supreme Court Ruling on Transgender ppl as "scientifically illiterate", "made without consultation with relevant experts & stakeholders", & will "cause real-world harm to the trans, non-binary, & intersex communities". www.thepinknews.com/2025/04/28/b...
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BMA condemns Supreme Court's 'scientifically illiterate' trans ruling
The British Medical Association (BMA) has condemned the Supreme Court's recent trans ruling as “scientifically illiterate”.
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Phil Hubbard @gypjh2000.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
"Cities and multiple nationalism" Urban Salon event at Northeastern University’s new London campus at Tower Bridge, 24 April, followed at 1930 by drinks Speakers: Liza Weinstein, Michael Gentile and Oren Yiftachel www.eventbrite.com/e/urban-salo...
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Phil Hubbard @gypjh2000.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Job at KCL geography - join us! - Lecturer in Geopolitics (permanent post) www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/112649-...
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Phil Hubbard @gypjh2000.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Nice to meet former Lboro student - and now Reader in Economic Geography - Allan Watson, in Southampton today. Walked the city in the unseasonal heat, justifying drinks stop.
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Phil Hubbard @gypjh2000.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
"Cities and multiple nationalism" Urban Salon event at Northeastern University’s new London campus at Tower Bridge, 24 April, followed at 1930 by drinks Speakers: Liza Weinstein, Michael Gentile and Oren Yiftachel www.eventbrite.com/e/urban-salo...
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Phil Hubbard @gypjh2000.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Nice Regional Studies @regstud.bsky.social webinar yesterday on legal geographies where i spoke alongside Luke Bennett, Athena Michalakea, and Jenny Kanellopoulou www.youtube.com/watch?v=YM5b...
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Legal Geography for Regions and Cities: A Place-first Approach
YouTube video by Regional Studies Association
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Phil Hubbard @gypjh2000.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Solidarity with my former colleagues at university of Kent, currently a complete mess and haemorrhaging staff www.kentonline.co.uk/canterbury/n...
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Lectures cancelled as uni staff strike over threat of job losses
Students have seen lectures cancelled as university staff strike this week over the threat of future redundancies.
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Phil Hubbard @gypjh2000.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
A difficult day for King's College as we remember student Aalia Mahomed who was tragically killed this time last week when a van driver entered the pedestrian precinct outside the College. Another two students were injured. A shocking event that has impacted a lot of students here.
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Phil Hubbard @gypjh2000.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
£1.2bn in taxpayers' money have been spent on planning the lower Thames crossing. I reckon a couple of KCL masters students could have done a better job coming up with a scheme that reduces traffic at Dartford by more than 20% Just what is the point of this? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Lower Thames Crossing plan for Essex and Kent is approved
The 14-mile (22.5km) road will link the A2 and M2 in Kent with the A13 and M25 in Essex.
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Phil Hubbard @gypjh2000.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
AAG week. I went regularly 1994 fort worth to 2019 Washington. Good times, critical scholarship. No more though, the process of applying for ESTAs was bad enough before Mr trump's transphobic border reforms came into effect. No more aag for me I guess.
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Phil Hubbard @gypjh2000.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Interesting article on what happens when universities start seeking savings and lose sight of what a university is www.bristol247.com/opinion/your...
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'The University of Bristol has embarked on a path like a death spiral'
UCU members are opposed to academic departments across the university having to make at least a 50% operating surplus
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