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Prof. Catriona Pennell

@teachlearnwar.bsky.social
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Prof. of Modern History & Memory Studies & Associate Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Research & Impact HASS, University of Exeter | RHS Councillor 2025-29 | all views my own

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Prof. Catriona Pennell @teachlearnwar.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A misty morning in Cornwall as I catch the early train to London to join my @royalhistsoc.org colleagues for our latest Council meeting and guest lecture, courtesy of the brilliant @gsoh31.bsky.social. Looking forward to being in the Big Smoke amongst friends and fellow historians.
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Prof. Catriona Pennell @teachlearnwar.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
A silly byline but fun to be interviewed today for the BBC’s coverage of the Second World War bomb discovered in Falmouth Docks @hass-cornwall.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Prof. Catriona Pennell @teachlearnwar.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Just finished at ‘Doing Impact With Care: Reparative Pedagogies, Futures, & Research Encounters’ - an AHRC/IAA funded workshop in Cardiff reflecting on our GCRF-funded EdJAM project (edjam.network). Many threads continue to run from this work: including two fantastic new books, almost published!
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Prof. Catriona Pennell @teachlearnwar.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Enjoying the weather at Streatham Court before @exeter.ac.uk Prof. John Wedgwood Clarke’s inaugural lecture ‘Bright Containers: On bottles, Jars & Poetry’. Have brought Jago along for some creative inspiration in midst of half-term. Persuasion c/o promise of posh meal out afterwards #academicmum…
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Prof. Catriona Pennell @teachlearnwar.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Day 2 of @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social ‘Science is Culture: Practicing Interdisciplinarity for Real-World Challenges’ starts with a gentle warm up & recap, incl. a reflection on positionality, imagination, & the potential constraints of background knowledge prompted by a 1967 photo of the Beatles 🥁🎸🎤
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Prof. Catriona Pennell @teachlearnwar.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
We bring day 1/2 of @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social ‘Science is Culture’ event to an end with our Vice-Chancellor, Prof Lisa Roberts reminding us of how new knowledge will not emerge from a single discipline & that HASS is at the centre of the uni’s mission for a cleaner, fairer & healthier world.
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Prof. Catriona Pennell @teachlearnwar.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
And we’re off: our second - and biggest - interdisciplinary event, Science is Culture, has begun! Over two days @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social have brought colleagues together from across @exeter.ac.uk to explore cross-faculty responses to some of the biggest challenges we face in the world today.
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Prof. Catriona Pennell @teachlearnwar.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
A great day of meetings today @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social as part of @royalhistsoc.org Council concluding with a talk from @sashahandley.bsky.social on ghost stories and women’s lives in early modern England. And yes, followers, I got lunch with the legendary @purseigle.bsky.social
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Prof. Catriona Pennell @teachlearnwar.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Off to @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social for my first in-person @royalhistsoc.org meeting since being elected to Council. Along with the usual agenda, we’re hosting a meeting of Independent Historians to understand how to better represent their interests. Looking forward to seeing old colleagues and new!
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Prof. Catriona Pennell @teachlearnwar.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Another week, another R&I interdisciplinary networking event! This time bringing together our expertise across @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social in AI & Data Science. Working with industry experts from IBM, Hertzian AI, & South West AI to consider @ukri.org priorities in AI & contribution of HASS.
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Prof. Catriona Pennell @teachlearnwar.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Bombs are terrifying no matter where they fall. While many UK newspapers focus on British residents in Dubai, this footage is from my friend in Saida, southern Lebanon this morning.
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Prof. Catriona Pennell @teachlearnwar.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
📣 Delighted to announce that @hass-cornwall.bsky.social, with Trebah Garden, have launched the Tony Hibbert Prize: aimed at secondary school students in Cornwall with an interest in the legacies of 20th conflict and the challenges the world faces today. hass-cornwall.exeter.ac.uk/tony-hibbert...
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Prof. Catriona Pennell @teachlearnwar.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Yesterday members of @hass-cornwall.bsky.social represented our faculty to visiting members of @exeter.ac.uk Council. They showcased world-leading research that engages with the Critical Minerals agenda from the perspectives of History, Archaeology, Law & Political Science. They did us proud.
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Prof. Catriona Pennell @teachlearnwar.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Mousehole remains as unfazed as always.
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Prof. Catriona Pennell @teachlearnwar.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
And so it begins…first day today as APVC Research & Impact for the Faculty of HASS. Looking forward to working with colleagues across all our ten departments to support their research and impact work. Here’s to a curious, supportive, and kind research culture.
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Prof. Catriona Pennell @teachlearnwar.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
A fantastic Human Futures research showcase today between @hass-cornwall.bsky.social & @uniofexeteresi.bsky.social. Exciting to learn more about our themed research clusters: Environmental Justice; Power, Violence & (De)Colonialism; Memory, Identity & Heritage; & Voice, Participation & Governance.
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Prof. Catriona Pennell @teachlearnwar.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Historian of war, empire, and memory at @uniofexeter.bsky.social with a particular interest in education, social justice & human security. New to Bluesky. Here because of global dark skies overhead. Pango, age ten weeks, also new (since Thursday) & helping to keep us smiling.
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