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The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

UK-based postdoctoral – or equivalent – researchers in the humanities and social sciences can still apply for the British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants. The deadline is 4 Nov for institutional applicants and 28 Oct for independent scholars. Find out more: bit.ly/4iwQQtI

British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants, deadline of 4 November 2026. Independent scholars deadline 28 October 2026

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Rita Hordósy @rhordosy.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

We've been travelling through Europe on night trains since S. was 1 - tried different routes & operators (Paris-RIP, Brussels, Amsterdam, and Stuttgart to Wien, using Eurostar / Hull ferry) with some hiccups (and delay repay), but overall great experiences... (Utrecht city break photos below)

Utrecht streets with bicycles. Man and child on a bakfiets.

Child on the streets of Utrecht with a yellow frisbee in front of his face

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Rita Hordósy @rhordosy.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Having chatted to my MP at a local community festival just yesterday, I'd reiterate this: raise your concerns, explain the scale of the problem, point out universities are important local employers *and* give a lot in non-economic terms too - the more support we start to gain, the better

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Carolina: ‘I think the most common route of getting anything is to have a friend in the company.’ Yaseen: ‘So much of it is about who you know.’ Larissa: ‘I don’t know anybody who has got a job lined up, except for your classic nepo babies.’ So we are back to this www.ft.com/content/16e2...

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Five university leavers on what it really takes to land a graduate job

In a brutal entry-level market, the FT is following final-year students as they make the transition into work

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Independent Social Research Foundation @isrfoundation.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Issues at British universities are often met with the same answer - restructure & centralise. This push towards 'efficiency' has led universities into further crisis. How do we fight back? More from this contribution to our Dispatches series isrf.org/blog/dispatch-from-a-middl… #UKHE

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Dispatch From a Middle Manager

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Rita Hordósy @rhordosy.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

A love letter to the sky above Valencia 🍊

Palm trees in Valencia's botanical gardens

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Rita Hordósy @rhordosy.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Local & independent journalism matters! Support your news outlets!

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Rob Johnson @rjson.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Oof. Missed this the other day. By our measure Nottingham is the UK big city most reliant on the universities for local 'knowledge' jobs. One in four of all of these high skilled jobs in the city are academic and non academic staff in higher education. Could be a big blow

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Rita Hordósy @rhordosy.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

📝 Exciting new paper from my fellowship at @uonsoe.bsky.social "The research/teaching nexus in sociology: Perspectives from Norway, Hungary and England" Jointly with Betul, Asad and Tom we wrote about the transformative experiences that help to shape students’ possible sociological futures

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Tibor M. Kalman @kalmantibs.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Easily the most heartwarming moment at Péter Magyar’s inauguration today: the Romani boys ensemble from the small town of Sükösd performing live in the Hungarian Parliament. Just as he promised them during his campaign stop last November. All the feels. 🙏🏼💝🕊️ 📹 Tamás Jónás

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JVET @jvetjournal.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

The 250th edition celebration of the Journal of Vocational Education and Training offers a timely return to one of the most debated frameworks in VET research: the capabilities approach. Find out more here: jvet.co.uk #JVET250 #VETResearch #CapabilitiesApproach #FurtherEducation #SocialJustice

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Rita Hordósy @rhordosy.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

"The Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC), a nominally private institution offering ‘supplementary education’ to students in order to create the next Fidesz elite, received more government funding than the rest of the higher education sector combined"

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Rita Hordósy @rhordosy.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

📒 Jointly with my brother Ádám we wrote a "thing" reflecting on Tisza's win in the HU elections. Neither of us are political scientists, so focusing on the "feels" and the hopes. There certainly are some of the latter, for once... open.substack.com/pub/guliverk...

Reflections on Tisza's win in 2026 - views from Veszprém and Sheffield - substack link in post. Photo of Erzsébet Bridge over the Danube

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Palma Polyak @palmapolyak.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

It’s a great moment to remember that in the leadup to this popular uprising, the first major gut-punch was delivered by Budapest Pride. Poetic justice. 🇭🇺🏳️‍🌈

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Rita Hordósy @rhordosy.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

I spent the evening in a bar in Veszprém, where most people (apart from me 👵🏼) never voted in an election that wasn't then won by Fidesz. Tonight the mood was electric, proud and excited for a different country tomorrow

Sticker on a post saying "16 years was enough"

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Rita Hordósy @rhordosy.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

I'm proud to report that my child sings "tülülü, tülülü, lüüü" when referring to trains stopping in train stations

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Rita Hordósy @rhordosy.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Can I just add the moment MP calls out a Russian propaganda outlet at his rally and references this song from 1990? youtu.be/-3pIN-FGho8?...

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PA-DÖ-DŐ - Bye-bye Szása (Offisöl Video)

YouTube video by PA-DÖ-DŐ (Offisöl csenöl)

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Rita Hordósy @rhordosy.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Good thread on where we are in a campaign finish that feels more bonkers by the day. An important issue to note is that Tisza is perhaps the first party in a long while that managed to cut through in the countryside (i.e. not just Budapest and cities) www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

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‘Feels like history is being made’: will young Hungarian voters oust Orbán?

The rightwing populist has been in power for 16 years but a new generation of voters are preparing to vote for his opponent, polls suggest

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Rita Hordósy @rhordosy.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Superb commentary on the Hungarian elections in a few weeks "...the usual language of democracy becomes misleading. This is not a democracy with flaws. It’s an autocracy with elections."

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Rita Hordósy @rhordosy.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

🚨 Call for Papers 🚨 Special Issue on Longitudinal and Lifecourse Approaches in Higher Education Research We invite contributions that use longitudinal or lifecourse research designs to deepen understanding of how change unfolds within higher education. Call: www.slls.org.uk/pages/llcs-j...

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LLCS Journal - Call for Papers | Society for Longitudinal and Lifecourse Studies (SLLS)

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Rita Hordósy @rhordosy.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

The *anger* I feel at the sector // HE policy after talking to some incredible ECRs/recent PhDs over the state of the academic labour market and short/medium term prospects... Just employ these enthusiastic, amazing scholars!! (Or don't turn my research funding apps down, so I can!)

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Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Nottingham cuts ‘threaten status as research-intensive university’. Move to reduce academics’ protected research time to 25 per cent brings union warning. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

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Nottingham cuts ‘threaten status as research-intensive university’ - Research Professional News

Move to reduce academics’ protected research time to 25 per cent brings union warning

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Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Job losses at UK research-intensive universities double in two years. Exclusive: Scale of redundancies branded a “disaster”. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

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Job losses at research-intensive universities double in two years - Research Professional News

Exclusive: Scale of redundancies revealed branded a “disaster” for UK research capacity

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Rita Hordósy @rhordosy.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Where are we with widening participation and student experience? ✍ SIGN UP: srhe.ac.uk/civicrm/?civ... 🗓️ WHEN: June 23rd 2026 11:00-15:45 🗺️ WHERE: in person at the SRHE offices in London (maps.app.goo.gl/9mR4pEyYo1yE...) @mannymadriaga.bsky.social @ddubdrahcir.bsky.social @soniailie.bsky.social

EVENT DETAILS
WHEN: June 23rd 2026 11:00-15:45
WHERE: in person at SRHE offices (8 Regents Wharf, All Saints St, London, N1 9RL)

From Social Justice to Risk Management? Re-conceptualising Widening Participation Across Policy, University Culture and Personal Identities - Rhiannon Jones - PhD researcher at University of Cambridge and an Access and Outreach Officer at Jesus College Cambridge

Starting Earlier, Working Systemically: NTU’s Early Years, Collective Impact, and Community Responsive Approaches to Social Mobility - Kimberley B Simms - Head of Widening Access and Community Engagement at Nottingham Trent University

Re-shaping the meritocracy: access policy in England from Blair to Starmer - Chris Millward - Professor of Practice in Education Policy at University of Birmingham and Interim Director of Fair Access and Participation at OfS

How do young people make decisions about their future? - Neil Harrison - Professor of Education and Social Justice at University of Exeter

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Rita Hordósy @rhordosy.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

📃Superb paper by Dr Zihao Liu using the possible selves framework to explore post-college transitions: How Chinese Higher Vocational Education and Training (HVET) Students Determine Their Post-College Pathway in the Post-Covid 19 Era journals.suub.uni-bremen.de/index.php/ij...

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Rita Hordósy @rhordosy.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Share a photo of a mountain you have taken

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Rita Hordósy @rhordosy.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

We all needed a break - and had some lovely time visiting family and seeing friends over the holidays in HU ❄️

Reflections of sailing boats moored on the icey Lake Balaton

View of the Danube in Budapest from the Szabadság Híd, looking towards the Budai Vár

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Rita Hordósy @rhordosy.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

...whilst celebrating Anto getting her thesis finalised and Biz's graduation, we got a notification that our paper out earlier this year has been assigned to an issue: “How ‘International’ Are Sociology Journals? Analysis of Stated Aims and Editorial Board Networks” - lnkd.in/eiF2pSG5

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This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn

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Rita Hordósy @rhordosy.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

My lovely colleague Charlie Davis @uonsoe.bsky.social talking about his experience of getting a Newer Researchers Award from @srhe.bsky.social, and the immense changes this prompted in his research career, networks and thinking. Awards are now open, deadline March 2026: srhe.ac.uk/research/pri...

Dr Davis talking about his project "Academics of working-class heritage talking project"

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Rita Hordósy @rhordosy.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Looking forward to the @srhe.bsky.social conference from today and catching up with colleagues I rarely get to see. Come and say hi to @soniailie.bsky.social & @mannymadriaga.bsky.social, the Student Access and Experience network always looks for new ideas! (We'll miss @ddubdrahcir.bsky.social)

Two conference talks on a slide, along with a wintery photo of the Trent Building, UON

Conceptualising research skills: How do students develop them in university and graduates use them at work?
Daria Luchinskaya,Rita Hordósy, Siyu Yuan

Parallel Session 2:7
15:30-17:00
Tuesday, 2 December 2025

Making of a field: higher education journal networks, aims and editorial boards

Rita Hordósy, Elizabeth Brown, Anto Vega Castillo, Martin Myers

Parallel Session 4:5
13:30-15:00
Wednesday, 3 December 2025

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Educational Review @edreview.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Register for the online Educational Review Article of the Year seminar! 🎉 Featuring our latest winners, expert discussants, and audience Q&A! Plus #FreeAccess to the winning article via the events page 👇 www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/educa...

Educational Review Article of the Year Award announcement. Monday 15th December, 5-6pm GMT. Winner: "Thin places of resistance: a caring response to refugees in rural American schools" by Kerry Ann McKeon, Betty Merchant, Christopher Flanagan-Gonzales & Saleha Sultan. Discussants: Reza Gholami, University of Birmingham; Laurence Lessard-Phillips, University of Birmingham. Chair: Jane Martin, University of Birmingham, Executive Editor, Educational Review. Sponsored by Routledge. Event webpage and registration: https:bit.ly/AotY2025

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Read 'em and weep. (www.nber.org/system/files...)

This paper examines the impact of the UK's decision to leave the European Union (Brexit) in 2016. Using almost a decade of data since the referendum, we combine simulations based on macro data with estimates derived from micro data collected through our Decision Maker Panel survey. These estimates suggest that by 2025, Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6% to 8%, with the impact accumulating gradually over time. We estimate that investment was reduced by between 12% and 18%, employment by 3% to 4% and productivity by 3% to 4%. These large negative impacts reflect a combination of elevated uncertainty, reduced demand, diverted management time, and increased misallocation of resources from a protracted Brexit process. Comparing these with contemporary forecasts – providing a rare macro example to complement the burgeoning microliterature of social science predictions – shows that these forecasts were accurate over a 5-year horizon, but they underestimated the impact over a decade.

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Rita Hordósy @rhordosy.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

A great discussion with amazing colleagues; catching up with @pallavibanerjee.bsky.social was the icing on the cake. We have superb seminars planned for @srhe.bsky.social #SAEN for 2026, watch this space! Say hi at the SRHE conference in Nottingham next month! srhe.ac.uk/internationa...

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UoN Education @uonsoe.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

@mannymadriaga.bsky.social is leading a #ESRC funded project drawing on Black, mad and disability studies to explore and enhance the mental health of Black students in four English universities. Project details: bit.ly/3KZOBk4

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Amplifying the mental health of Black university students: A Black, Mad and Disability Studies Intersectional Inquiry - The University of Nottingham

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Rita Hordósy @rhordosy.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Are you a graduate who started their university journey in the first years of the 9K fees? If so, please consider contributing to this important research project lead by my colleague Farhana Ghaffar

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

🧵🚨 The UK’s independent scientific bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation - over the past 5 months I've been working with @martinmckee.bsky.social to map out their vulnerabilities and it's not good news. Today our report is published! www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n... 1/11

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UK’s arm’s length public bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation

Seven in ten Britons say it is important for top scientific institutions to be independent in exclusive new polling.

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Academic authors, here's a peek into the black box of journal publishing from an journal editor if you can bear it:

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Ooh we've opened our call for small research grants. £10k for any humanities or social sciences research. Open to independent scholars. We use partial randomisation to allocate the funding: random allocation between all that meet the quality threshold www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/ba-l...

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British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants

The BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grants are available to support primary research in the humanities and social sciences. These awards, up to £10,000 in value and tenable for up to 24 months, are provi...

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Rita Hordósy @rhordosy.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

I can't quite believe that @seatsixtyone.bsky.social was on the same Eurostar and sat next to us in the bar in Brussels before boarding different night trains.

Sleeper carriage on a nightjet set up as seats, with a soft toy. The berth number is 11, including beds 65, 63 and 61

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Rita Hordósy @rhordosy.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Going to work after a lovely weekend. Glad S. doesn't know this was left in my coat pocket by accident...

Toy car held out a palm above the canals of Nottingham

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Tom Stafford @tomstafford.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 03/07/2025

JOB : Join RoRI as a Research Fellow/Senior Research Fellow in Metascience researchonresearch.org/join-rori-as… Closing 9th of July, based in London/hybrid. Full time, fixed term until 31/12/2027 (apologies for late notice, full […]

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University of Nottingham UCU branch @uonucu.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Our ballot results are in! -63% of members voted -84% of voting members said YES to action short of strike -72% of voting members said YES to strike action Which means our call for industrial action has passed and we have a mandate to fight back!

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Rita Hordósy @rhordosy.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Thanks to Fidesz banning Pride, the 30th seems to have become the biggest celebration to date 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ 444.hu/kepek/2025/0...

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Így nézett ki a Budapest Pride-os tömeg az Erzsébet hídon

Itt és így ment át Budára a százezres tömeg a Szabadság híd helyett.

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