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Shahnaz Akhter

@shahnaz76.bsky.social
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Senior Policy Advisor at Warwick Uni . Research focuses on Muslim women and colonialism. Come for the politics , stay for the boxing chats. Views my own.

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
If the media wants a story about academia which is of real public interest, then they should cover the resurgence of race science, which is providing legitimacy for racism and eugenic ideology in political and public discussions. Unfortunately, there seems to be little interest in this story
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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
I love that Americans are asking this about elections this year, whereas here people are going berserk over thrice weekly polls, with more than three years to go.
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
If you are still on X, you are willingly using a CSAM-friendly platform.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
'Ahead of the autumn budget on 26 November, Universities UK (UUK) has calculated that funding per student for teaching in 2025-26 is at 64 per cent of the level it was in 2015-16.' 1/3
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University teaching income ‘£6.4 billon less’ than 10 years ago
UUK says shortfall in teaching money is ‘baked in’ to higher education funding system as institutions brace for new tax in upcoming budget
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
'The University of Warwick vice-chancellor has hit out at government plans to introduce a levy on income from international student tuition fees, as he announced...a voluntary leavers scheme to address £10 million of extra costs from the national insurance hike for employers.' 1/3
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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
No more blatant example of Question Time’s bias than this. Goodwin is a Reform activist and GB News presenter - you’d have to be intentionally blind to think he’s an academic
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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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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Nigel Farage, whose party recently put a teenager with zero work experience of any kind in charge of an entire English county, accuses the government of appointing people "with no knowledge" or experience in charge of Government departments
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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Absolutely appalling. Someone is going to be killed or seriously injured very soon, and the blame for that won’t only lie with the perpetrators, or the likes of Yaxley-Lennon, but with actual MPs intent on painting members of racialised minorities as threats to women & children
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The Listening Post @ajlisteningpost.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
“This is my duty…reporting the suffering of a people that I am living amidst, suffering that I am experiencing myself.” – Reporter Anas al-Sharif in what would become his final interview with us just weeks before being killed by Israeli forces in Gaza. Full report ⤵️ youtu.be/YeQD6spHyEU
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Shahnaz Akhter @shahnaz76.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Gen Z, this is a step too far.
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Department of Politics and International Studies (PAIS) @warwickpais.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Big news from PAIS! We’ve been ranked #2 in the Russell Group in the 2025 NSS – making it 10 years in a row in the top 2, with 7 years at #1! 🏆 Find out more here buff.ly/57RtxDl
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Shahnaz Akhter @shahnaz76.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
A Fran paper! Gets ready to read !
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Nigel Farage's new non-dom policy "would provide a very large and expensive tax windfall to a small number of very wealthy people who are already here... [that] would amount to £34bn of lost Government revenue over five years" taxpolicy.org.uk/2025/06/23/b...
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The £34bn cost of Reform UK’s “Britannia card” proposal
Reform UK’s Britannia Card would let wealthy foreigners pay £250,000 to avoid UK tax — but would likely cost £34bn and reduce skilled migration.
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Shahnaz Akhter @shahnaz76.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Thanks so much Catherine- your research sounds super interesting!
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Shahnaz Akhter @shahnaz76.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Also posting this by Samira Shackle : www.theguardian.com/news/2025/fe...
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The Coventry experiment: why were Indian women in Britain given radioactive food without their consent?
When details about a scientific study in the 1960s became public, there was shock, outrage and anxiety. But exactly what happened?
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
We are pleased to be part of this joint National Academies letter in the Times today ahead of the Spending Review making the case for investment in R&D @royalsociety.org @britishacademy.bsky.social @raeng.org.uk @acmedsci.bsky.social
Sir, Any country pushing for growth must invest in its strengths, and Britain is no different. The UK is a global scientific powerhouse but investment in it lags behind that of our competitors. The government is facing a difficult spending review but that is exactly when a clear vision is necessary. Investment in research and innovation is investment in improved productivity, future growth and improved lives.
From the development of life-saving vaccines to world-leading research in Al, clean energy and quantum technologies, this country continues to push the frontiers of global discovery and innovation. If we want UK and overseas businesses to continue to back the UK, and for our research institutions to attract and retain the best talent, the government must send a strong signal about increased long-term funding for the people and ideas that will continue to shape the world.Dame Kate Bingham, managing partner,
SV Health Investors
Professor Julia Black, president, British
Academy
Professor Andrew Haldane, CEO, Royal Society of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce
Dr Hermann Hauser, co-founder,
Amadeus Capital Partners and founder of
Acorn
Sir John Kingman, chair, Legal & General
Group plc
Sir John Lazar, president, Royal Academy of Engineering
Professor Andrew Morris, president,
Academy of Medical Sciences Henri Murison, CEO, Northern
Powerhouse Partnership
Professor Sir Paul Nurse, CEO, Francis
Crick Institute
Professor Sir Adrian Smith, president,
Royal Society
Sir Jonathan Symonds, chair, GSK
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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
The term “burka ban” needs to be dropped because they are not talking about banning the burka, but a whole range of head coverings associated with Muslim women.
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Terry Weldon @terryweldon.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
The excellent Ben Ansell explains why Farage is unlikely to be PM in 2029. "Don't Make Plans for Nigel" open.substack.com/pub/benansel...
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Don't Make Plans for Nigel
At least just yet...
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Department of Politics and International Studies (PAIS) @warwickpais.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Raymond Hyma’s new working paper explores how participatory action research in Southeast Asia became a tool for connection—shifting identities and building empathy in divided communities. What if the research is the intervention? buff.ly/9hJhNs8
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LabourList @labourlist.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
"Callaghan lost the support of his own base while losing the 1979 election to Thatcher. Any Labour government that tries to follow the Blue Labour formula is likely to end the same way." Jeremy Gilbert on why Blue Labour is the wrong answer to the Reform surge 🔽
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'Progressivism or bust: Why Blue Labour is the wrong answer to Reform surge' - LabourList
Callaghan lost the support of his own base while losing the 1979 election to Thatcher. Any Labour government that tries to follow the Blue Labour formula is likely to end the same way.
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Charlie Price @charlieprice.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
My paper has an issue number now, so please read it! Especially if you're that guy who emailed me about my apparent lack of critical thinking skills after I critiqued some conspiracy theories in a different paper...
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Briony Jones @justpolitics-blog.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
A concerning colonial attitude by the UK government, implying that expertise is only located in the 'aid givers'. Collaboration, solidarity, responsibility, and most of all humility are key @wicidwarwick.bsky.social @mouzkhalil.bsky.social @shahnaz76.bsky.social @devcomms.bsky.social
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BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
“It’s the worst I’ve ever seen it in Gaza.” British surgeon Dr Victoria Rose tells @vicderbyshire.bsky.social about the current situation at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza, adding: “there are more patients coming through the door than I have ever witnessed before.” #Newsnight
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Briony Jones @justpolitics-blog.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Universities as a Public Good - a response to the UK Immigration White Paper. Check out this post I co-authored with my amazing colleagues at @wicidwarwick.bsky.social to hear what we have to say about it.....and tell us what you think! warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/pais...
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Protecting Universities as a Public Good: A Response to the Immigration White Paper
Blog Written by Professor Briony Jones, Dr Shahnaz Akhter and Dr Mouzayian Khalil,Warwick Interdisciplinary Research Centre for International Development (WICID)Link opens in a new window, University ...
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WICID Warwick @wicidwarwick.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
New WICID #ThinkDevelopment blog 📣 We just published a new blog 'Protecting Universities as a Public Good: A Response to the Immigration White Paper' addressing the recent white paper by the UK Government. Please check it out here and share: warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/pais...
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Protecting Universities as a Public Good: A Response to the Immigration White Paper
Blog Written by Professor Briony Jones, Dr Shahnaz Akhter and Dr Mouzayian Khalil,Warwick Interdisciplinary Research Centre for International Development (WICID)Link opens in a new window, University ...
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Shahnaz Akhter @shahnaz76.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Protecting Universities as a Public Good. A Response to the Immigration White Paper. A new @wicidwarwick.bswarwick.ac blog by Professor Briony Jones, Dr Mouzayian Khalil and me. warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/pais...
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Protecting Universities as a Public Good: A Response to the Immigration White Paper
Blog Written by Professor Briony Jones, Dr Shahnaz Akhter and Dr Mouzayian Khalil, University of Warwick.
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Shahnaz Akhter @shahnaz76.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
This is a must-read for anyone interested in the state of the higher education sector.
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Shahnaz Akhter @shahnaz76.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Growing older in academia is realising very few students get the What is this behaviour Pooja reference.
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a woman in a black dress is walking in a room with pink cabinets .
ALT: a woman in a black dress is walking in a room with pink cabinets .
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Sarah Owen MP @sarahowen.org.uk · 17/05/2025
The UK must recognise the state of Palestine. A ceasefire, release of hostages, unrestricted aid, diplomatic negotiation + accountability can bring an end to this conflict, and recognition is a crucial first part of that. I spoke on Radio 4 about @lfpme.bsky.social 76 MPs/Peers urging govt to act
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Shahnaz Akhter @shahnaz76.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Consequence of world politics at the moment - there really hasn't been enough publicity about how fabulous Diljit Dosanjh looked at the Met Ball.
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Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
International student levy branded ‘self-imposed tariff on UK exports’. Government plan would deepen “financial precarity” for universities and risk deterring students, experts warn. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-p...
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Intriguing report of the thinking of the Universities Minister www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05...
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Universities have ‘lost sight of responsibility over public money’
Baroness Smith says institutions failing to rein in spending despite demanding financial support from government
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
This is an esp bad example of the BBC coverage of immigration leaving out the central fact for public understanding It omits the current evidence on what the level of immigration is (while reporting political claims that make no sense without the fact too) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Care worker recruitment from abroad to end, Home Secretary Yvette Cooper says
Up to 50,000 fewer lower-skilled workers will come to the UK under new measures aimed at tackling net migration, the home secretary says.
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Shahnaz Akhter @shahnaz76.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
PMQS club is back after a long recess. Today's session took stock of last week's elections and its usual engagement with how questions are asked and answered. This week all leaders came in for criticism and a call for more detail in answers.
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Rachel Sylvester @rachelsylvester.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
International students are worth £20 billion a year to Britain - will this be the cost of Reform’s success at local elections as Gov tries to look tough on immigration? observer.co.uk/news/politic...
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Labour plots immigration blitz after Reform success at polls
No 10 and Home Office expected to ramp up curbs on foreign university students
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Fran Amery @franamery.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
If you are a feminist academic, you should sign this letter. forms.gle/oDYgnobrMiSc...
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Not In Our Name: Feminist Academics and Educators Speak Out Against Transphobia
We call on all trans-inclusive feminist academics and educators to sign this statement: ‘Not In Our Name’ We are non-trans feminist academics and educators. We write in support of trans rights, tran...
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Shahnaz Akhter @shahnaz76.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Trading falling markets, for the ability to trade insults.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Beyond. Parody.
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Khadijah Elshayyal @drkelshayyal.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
We at Network of Sisters in Academia (NeSA) are deeply alarmed and outraged at the abduction of our sister and fellow academic Rumeysa Öztürk and demand that authorities declare her location and secure her liberty so she can return safely to her studies
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
British comic book creator Becky Burke is still being held in a USA detention camp, without news of release or repatriation bleedingcool.com/comics/briti...
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British Comics Artist R.E. Burke Still Being Held In US Detention Camp
British comic book creator R.E. Burke, or Becky Burke, is still being held in a USA detention camp, without news of release or repatriation
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Charlie Price @charlieprice.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Have your parents accidentally gone on holiday with conspiracy theorists? Mine have and they let me write about it in Critical Studies on Security! Help! My parents are normies: family friends, GPS, and the World Economic Forum www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Help! My parents are normies: family friends, GPS, and the World Economic Forum
Many of us know we can never understand everything, but for some this is unacceptable and solutions must be found; for two of my parents’ friends, the world makes sense, but the globalists try to h...
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Zoë Crowther @zoecrowther.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
ICYMI last weekend: Chair of the Women and Equalities Select Committee @sarahowen.org.uk told me she is concerned that DEI schemes in the UK could be impacted by attacks from Donald Trump
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Equalities Committee Chair Warns UK Not 'Immune' To US Anti-Diversity Drive
The chair of the Women and Equalities Select Committee has said she is concerned that diversity and inclusion (DEI) schemes in the UK could be impa...
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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 07/03/2025
They're going to try to make an example of a few universities in order to block free speech at all of them out of fear.
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Shahnaz Akhter @shahnaz76.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Thoughtful #PMQSclub session today , with students commenting on Ukraine and the very real impact that this has on us all. Insightful analysis on LOTO and @eddavey.libdems.org.uk questions to the PM as students continue to learn about politics @warwickpais.bsky.social
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Nanjala @nanjala.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Bringing colour charts to a gunfight.
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Charlie Price @charlieprice.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Reposting because my paper 'Delimiting Resistance and Resisting the Border: The Case for Strategic Essentialism in Critical Border Studies' one @geopoliticsjournal.bsky.social now has an issue number! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @warwickpais.bsky.social
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Delimiting Resistance and Resisting the Border: The Case for Strategic Essentialism in Critical Border Studies
There has been a plethora of insightful critical approaches to studying borders, but many still produce versions of borders that replicate essentialist readings of the border. In this paper, I draw...
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Shahnaz Akhter @shahnaz76.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Such a privilege to have my research be a small part of this work by @samirashackle.bsky.social . This really centres the voices at the heart of the Coventry Experiment and is an astonishing read.
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John Hogan Morris @johnhoganmorris.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
I've got a new paper out with the brilliant @savannahcox.bsky.social & Emma Colven! We took a social studies of finance lens to explore the practices of 'framing, standardization & classification' that 'center' private finance at the core of urban climate action. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Centering work: toward more ‘social’ accounts of urban climate finance
In recent years, high-profile financial actors have developed a dizzying array of services and devices that promise to help cities devise ‘solutions’ to climate change. But what must happen for pri...
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