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(Dr) Heather Moreno Sutherland

@heathermsutherland.bsky.social
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Lecturer in UKHE (North East). Interdisciplinary. Qualitative. Lost my brother to suicide and that matters in all I do. Research: Mental Health in HigherEd settings; Sibling Suicide Loss. Lived(ing) Experience. Mum 👧🏻👼🏻 🐶. 🇬🇧 🇲🇽 sibsas.blogspot.com

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(Dr) Heather Moreno Sutherland @heathermsutherland.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Disappointed-seen advert for an unpaid, ‘volunteer researcher’ to help a charity’s ’1-week scoping review project’. As a task ECRs would seek, especially in the current pressured HE climate, not recognising the time+experience the (skilled) activity requires seems inappropriate to me #AcademicSky
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(Dr) Heather Moreno Sutherland @heathermsutherland.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
1/2. 2 years ago was my 2nd PhD graduation, for the thesis I did in memory of my brother...1 year ago (2 days earlier), I spoke about my reflections on ‘lived experience’, unexpectedly unable to contain a blub at the end of the presentation…It may be an effect of…
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(Dr) Heather Moreno Sutherland @heathermsutherland.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
“The most striking message from the [Pre‑arrival Academic Questionnaire] PAQ is not a demand for innovation, flexibility, or cutting-edge digital tools. It is far simpler: students are used to and want human teaching, human feedback, and human connection” #AcademicSky
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(Dr) Heather Moreno Sutherland @heathermsutherland.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
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Splurgey Shards and Random Fragments
Reclaiming (Writing as Thinking) After An Academic Year
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(Dr) Heather Moreno Sutherland @heathermsutherland.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Yup, this mash up TOTALLY works…And is also definitely making the playlist as a little conduit for kicking off the opening context discussion for the adolescent development and behaviour module next academic year…! #CurrentAdolescenceSameAsItEverWasOrCompletelyDifferent 🤣 youtu.be/r2bJQI71C24?...
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Ariana Grande, Britney Spears - hate that i made you love me one more time (Adamusic Mashup)
YouTube video by Adamusic
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(Dr) Heather Moreno Sutherland @heathermsutherland.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Just for weekend fun, as the end of marking finally is in sight, our perrito Chachito, as a core member of this Mexi-Brit household, had his groom this morning and his groomer forwarded us this ❤️ 🤣🇲🇽 Viva México!! #MomentaryBreather
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(Dr) Heather Moreno Sutherland @heathermsutherland.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Taking time out today to mark a big day in our house! I may feel pride in my work sometimes, but I am unfailingly proud of my daughter (and of being her mum) always!
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(Dr) Heather Moreno Sutherland @heathermsutherland.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Lush to’ve been with York St John University Centre for Language+Social Justice Research staff for today’s Festival of Ideas session. LGV bumper stickers,The Simpsons, Sycamore Gap, Eastenders+Moana all in with Merleau-Ponty, the PTMF, Living Experience, Closure, Survivor and Wayfinding in 12mins! 🎉
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(Dr) Heather Moreno Sutherland @heathermsutherland.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Marking on a Saturday morning. Envious of el perrito, can’t lie!
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(Dr) Heather Moreno Sutherland @heathermsutherland.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Excited+also *a little* nervous to be talking words+suicide loss next week-pondering on my (derived over time) learning/thinking about language as a person bereaved by suicide. Words that are lost; taken away; imposed; discovered; physically felt and require navigation/redefinition…Wish me 🍀 pls!
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
“Westminster needs to wake up to this need for joined-up thinking if we are to limit the number of...Essexes, Hertfordshires & Nottinghams...UK universities are a precious commodity. Ten years of dropping this commodity to see where the pieces land is not an education policy worthy of the name.” 1/2
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(Dr) Heather Moreno Sutherland @heathermsutherland.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Close of Academic Year 2025/6 doth appear on the horizon…. ❤️🎓#AcademicSky
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(Dr) Heather Moreno Sutherland @heathermsutherland.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Campus looking hermosísimo this morning!!!
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(Dr) Heather Moreno Sutherland @heathermsutherland.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Taking 5 mins in the YSJ peace garden before next teaching session ☀️🌳❤️
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(Dr) Heather Moreno Sutherland @heathermsutherland.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
A YSJ Writing Retreat morning, during which I set aside all screens in favour of handwriting and thinking. I scribble-reflected for 10 pages, and it was nothing short of blissful. I’ve now a structure for my autoethnography on ‘survivor’ in the context of sibling suicide loss #AcademicSky 🎉 😀☀️📝✒️
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(Dr) Heather Moreno Sutherland @heathermsutherland.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Love that the train driver this morning has asked the entire passenger load for name suggestions for the Dachshund puppy he’s bring home at the weekend! 🐶
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(Dr) Heather Moreno Sutherland @heathermsutherland.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
As part of discussions pertaining to language use, function and effect (and the need for their inclusion on teaching materials, for example), I present my local takeaway’s social media use of ‘trigger warning’ for consideration….
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(Dr) Heather Moreno Sutherland @heathermsutherland.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
1/3. Went to see Alex Warren last night, as part of his current world tour. Seriously good sounds! But more significant/impressive (to me) was seeing the space he provided for grief. He’s already known for being open and talking publicly about the loss of both parents as well as other difficult ...
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(Dr) Heather Moreno Sutherland @heathermsutherland.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Ain’t nothing like a beautiful and energy-filled day in Edinburgh to rejuvenate!
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(Dr) Heather Moreno Sutherland @heathermsutherland.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
“One book in three weeks? At some universities that would be a triumph” www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/one-...
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One book in three weeks? At some universities that would be a triumph
With undergraduates viewing education as a transaction and AI offering helpful summaries, reading is dying out on UK campuses, says Agnieszka Piotrowska
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(Dr) Heather Moreno Sutherland @heathermsutherland.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
There was no such thing as ‘National Siblings Day’ when my brother died 14.5 years ago, no outlet in which the loss could be really expressed, this is a major acknowledgement…still a long way to go in recognising sibling grief but it’s nice to see a start appearing! www.cruse.org.uk/understandin...
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Losing a Sibling | Cruse Bereavement Care
Our siblings hold an important place in our lives. Their death can be very painful. We're here to help you make sense of how you're feeling.
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(Dr) Heather Moreno Sutherland @heathermsutherland.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
“Mourning on Schedule: How Grieving Became a ‘Mental Illness’” www.madintheuk.com/2026/03/mour...
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Mourning on Schedule: How Grieving Became a ‘Mental Illness’ - Mad in the UK
Or am I just a person who misses someone they loved very much, and has to deal with the sadness of moving on alone?
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(Dr) Heather Moreno Sutherland @heathermsutherland.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
April in the North West of the UK….🤦🏼‍♀️ #StormDave
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(Dr) Heather Moreno Sutherland @heathermsutherland.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Over the last 7 working days, I’ve marked 26 assessments amounting to approx. 82,000 words (alongside other admin task completions). Head is FRIED; heart disappointed to have not been able to meet pre-hol research/writing target too…. Roll on the coming moment for ‘out of office’ 🎉💤 #AcademicSky
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(Dr) Heather Moreno Sutherland @heathermsutherland.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Going to be talking to current PGRs about “attending conferences”. Having done many, I have thoughts…but am also curious as to what others (across disciplines) would have a) liked to know whilst doing your PhD? And b) what have you learned about attending conferences since?! #AcademicSky
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(Dr) Heather Moreno Sutherland @heathermsutherland.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
In the depths marking and too much time on Moodle/in Turnitin, how lovely to have this motivation at the bottom of the screen. ❤️❤️ #AcademicSky
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(Dr) Heather Moreno Sutherland @heathermsutherland.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Supervisors claiming co-authorship of PhD papers ‘form of fraud’ www.timeshighereducation.com/news/supervi...
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Supervisors claiming co-authorship of PhD papers ‘form of fraud’
Pushing doctoral students to credit more senior academics on early publications has contributed to ‘ethical scandal hiding in plain sight’, says education professor
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LTHEchat @lthechat.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Q6 What resources or institutional support would help with the productive uses of humour in education? Reply with A6 #LTHEchat and your response
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LTHEchat @lthechat.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
This week’s #LTHEchat will be starting in 10 minutes. We will be discussing 'Exploring Academics’ Use of Humour Styles in Higher Education Teaching’ with @hankumna.bsky.social Still time to read through the blogpost
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#LTHEchat
The weekly Learning and Teaching in HE chat created by the community for the community - Wednesday 8-9pm
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(Dr) Heather Moreno Sutherland @heathermsutherland.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
A whole morning at a YSJ retreat in a cosy room in an old York pub reading, developing and drafting a proposal on ‘Everything I Do (I Do It for You)’: siblings, musical memories and suicide loss. This I liked LOTS. 🎼✒️ #AcademicSky
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
'Teaching-only staff at Sheffield Hallam University are set to be moved into a subsidiary firm, leaving research intensive scholars the only academics still being employed directly by the institution.' Utterly inequitable & betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of the teaching/research nexus. 1/3
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Sheffield Hallam restricts TPS access to REF academics only
Teaching staff at post-92 institution to be employed by subsidiary firm and lose right to access expensive pensions scheme
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(Dr) Heather Moreno Sutherland @heathermsutherland.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Fascinating tbh. “What about the people who choose not to share online? …This article seeks to explore this under-researched phenomenon. Much like ‘non-use’, unshareability and non-sharing are crucial parts of contemporary digital culture.” journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #AcademicSky #Grief
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Unshareable: Non-Sharing Grief and Grievabilities on Social Media - Tamara Borovica, Katrin Gerber, Larissa Hjorth, 2026
For death-online scholars, online rituals of loss and death help to challenge and reinforce social and moral order. The digital mediates, remediates and ‘mediat...
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(Dr) Heather Moreno Sutherland @heathermsutherland.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
“Stop letting students avoid the microphone” wonkhe.com/blogs/stop-l...
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Stop letting students avoid the microphone
Andrew Routledge explores why universities still let students opt out of speaking, and what a better model looks like Andrew Routledge explores why universities still let students opt out of speaking,...
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Liz Morrish @lizmorrish.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
A few years late to the party by THE..... UK university staff: complete our survey about redundancies share.google/bBpNQ2FrWsNe...
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(Dr) Heather Moreno Sutherland @heathermsutherland.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Today my Dad is 70. He is most awesome.
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(Dr) Heather Moreno Sutherland @heathermsutherland.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
How do you know semester 2 commuting and teaching is due to commence the following day in our house? This be how #FuelMade #AcademicSky
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 30/01/2026
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(Dr) Heather Moreno Sutherland @heathermsutherland.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
1/5.I find myself in a reflective mood. This weekend sees the second anniversary of my joining York St John University in my first lectureship … it also marks the start of the final month of 22 years of ‘experiencing’ Higher Education contexts (since starting my first PhD). I have… #AcademicSky
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(Dr) Heather Moreno Sutherland @heathermsutherland.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Today’s been a really difficult (awful) day, and I wish my brother was here. That’s it.
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(Dr) Heather Moreno Sutherland @heathermsutherland.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Not even 7.30am and statements from near-teen of the house include: “Why do you old people write such long paragraphs?” (Comment on my writing of a WhatsApp message…) And: “Shhhh I can’t spell while you’re speaking!” Fun day ahead for teachers then!
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Dr Lucy Foulkes @lucyfoulkes.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
🌟 CALLING UK UNDERGRAD STUDENTS 🌟 We are recruiting uni students for an interview study about self-diagnosis and peer-diagnosis It will be an online interview lasting around 45 minutes and you will receive a voucher as a thank you To find out more or express your interest: tinyurl.com/492d4h92
Do you talk to your friends about mental health? Take part in our interview study! For more info contact matilda.lambert@bnc.ox.ac.uk or lucy.foulkes@psych.ox.ac.uk
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(Dr) Heather Moreno Sutherland @heathermsutherland.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
First dance class of 2026 felt gooood!!
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(Dr) Heather Moreno Sutherland @heathermsutherland.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
New Year’s Eve 2025 - Happy New Year 2026! (Lines from) ‘The Peace of Wild Things’ By Wendell Berry “When despair for the world grows in me … I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. … For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.”
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(Dr) Heather Moreno Sutherland @heathermsutherland.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
“Bow-wow down all for I am now the age of 4” 👑🎂🐶❤️
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(Dr) Heather Moreno Sutherland @heathermsutherland.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
It’s quite a belated present to learn a personally-significant piece was published on Christmas Day! Sutherland, H. A. (2025). “And this is where my mind is”: space, place, and “student mental health and wellbeing” (SMHWB) in the UK. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 1–39. doi.org/10.1080/1478...
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(Dr) Heather Moreno Sutherland @heathermsutherland.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
It’s quite a belated present to learn a personally-significant piece was published on Christmas Day! Sutherland, H. A. (2025). “And this is where my mind is”: space, place, and “student mental health and wellbeing” (SMHWB) in the UK. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 1–39. doi.org/10.1080/1478...
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(Dr) Heather Moreno Sutherland @heathermsutherland.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
And Christmas doth commence, with a little visit to the Twice Brewed Inn (#SycamoreGap) ❤️🌳
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(Dr) Heather Moreno Sutherland @heathermsutherland.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Article proof returned to publisher; teaching and term’s end; lovely student feedback and gifts of handmade earrings; Christmas atmosphere and smells; lush food and company…. Hasta 2026, York! Out of office is well and truly ON! 🎉🎄🍾 #AcademicSky
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(Dr) Heather Moreno Sutherland @heathermsutherland.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Oh but it is early… Final 9am of 2025 ahead… #AcademicSky
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(Dr) Heather Moreno Sutherland @heathermsutherland.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
My brother has been gone 14 years today. It’s unreal to me that he’s been gone for just over half as long as he lived. I’m going to be spending some time reflecting on how I think and feel about that.… Yesterday I marked the day by getting a sycamore friend for my gheko ❤️ #StoriesOnSkin #SuicideLoss
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