19 August 2025 Dear Evelyn Welch (Vice-Chancellor) cc Judith Squires (Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Provost), Tansy Jessop (Pro Vice-Chancellor for Education and Students) The School of Humanities has ...

No Country for Travellers? explores the rise and nature of British travel to Spain and Portugal between 1760 and 1820, across a region that is conventionally overlooked in studies of British travel to...

Hello everyone. Welcome back to Set Yet Speaking. It’s been a while. The last time I properly updated this website, I was still lecturing. Things have changed a bit since then. I realised an …

UCC wishes to appoint a scholar with a proven commitment to excellence in teaching and research to the role of Lecturer in Old English.

Buzz Bones - the Original Fidget Spinner: For as long as there have been children, there have been toys which make irritating noises. Originally made from the foot bones of a pig, Buzz Bones make a hu...

Buzz Bones - the Original Fidget Spinner: For as long as there have been children, there have been toys which make irritating noises. Originally made from the foot bones of a pig, Buzz Bones make a hu...

UK higher education (HE) is undergoing a profound and deeply unsettling crisis. Universities across the country including Newcastle, Cardiff, UEA, Dundee and many others (seemingly by the day) are …

UCU members are opposed to academic departments across the university having to make at least a 50% operating surplus

Research reveals UK institutions educated 50 world leaders in post in 2022, despite job cuts, course closures and a fall in foreign students Universities in the UK, many of which are in the grip of a financial crisis, “educate more national leaders than…