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vaniev.bsky.social @vaniev.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

I had my "generous" 2 weeks of paid paternity leave in my 1st year as an intl PhD student without extended family around to help. SO LONG OVERDUE to increase this period to anything above 2 months!😡 This time is critically important for any young dad & mum, so what the UK has now is simply SHAMEFUL!

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The Herald @heraldscotland.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

'Evidently, Reform and the Tories have no interest in telling the truth about immigration. 'The Greens and parties like the SNP are simply not listened to when they offer a take more in accordance with reality.' www.heraldscotland.com/poli... @neilmackay.bsky.social

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Get Glasgow Moving @getglasgowmoving.org · 11/03/2026

Have you responded to Transport Scotland's consultation yet? 🛣️ We have a 𝗼𝗻𝗲-𝗶𝗻-𝗮-𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆 to Remove the M8 Woodside Viaducts & invest £500m in sustainable transport connections instead 🚶🚴🚌🚎🚃 Find out more at: RemovetheM8.org.uk Deadline: 𝗪𝗲𝗱𝘀 𝟮𝟱 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲

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Stefanie Haustein @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca · 20/11/2025

We summarized the Drain paper in an LSE Impact blog post this week. Please share in your networks, ideally with those we are calling to action: research funders and university leadership blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci... #AcademicSky #AcademicPublishing #OpenAccess #ScholComm

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UofGARC @uofgarc.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

We asked ARC residents and users if they'd like to take part in a photography project to help us capture life in the ARC. We gave participants a single use film camera for a day, with the task to take photos of whatever they liked in the building. Here are the results...

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vaniev.bsky.social @vaniev.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Today at #ISATT2025, I presented an ideation project that connected my lived experiences as a youth trainer in European #NonFormalEducation with my current PhD study on teaching development of UK #HE lecturers. Thanks for the chance to think out loud! @isatt2025.bsky.social @uofglasgow.bsky.social

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vaniev.bsky.social @vaniev.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Well, that's just shooting at all limbs at once. Curious if such attack will redirect international students to the UK, as it was already seen in the recent enrolling undergrad student numbers 🤔

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vaniev.bsky.social @vaniev.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Exactly. Such meaningless new immigration rules aimed at reducing legal migration from the recent white paper can only do harm to the drowning HE sector and stagnating UK economy, not even speaking about losing thousands of skilled potential researchers aspiring to continue their careers in the UK.

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vaniev.bsky.social @vaniev.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Speaking about power outages in Spain 🇪🇸 and Portugal 🇵🇹 and the role of the “material” in our lives… Sociomaterialism reminds us about a tangible material world we face every day, and how it not simply mediates but literally shapes our existence and the social reality we live in. 🔋

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UCU University of Glasgow @ucuglasgow.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

🚨 Support our Graduate Teaching Assistants! This year has seen a spate of cuts in real terms to GTA pay and conditions across many departments that left an already underpaid and overworked workforce at breaking point. Sign our petition to support crucial staff: speakout.web.ucu.org.uk/gta-glasgow/

UCU Campaign for GTAs
Calling for Fair Pay, Equal Pay, Secure Pay

Fair pay: To eliminate the endemic overworking of GTAs expected to perform tasks not within those stipulated as their responsibility in their employment contracts – particularly, but not limited to, extra administrative work and contributions to the creation of course content.

Equal pay: To raise allocated preparation time to a reasonable level which truly represents the work that GTAs must devote to delivering pedagogically sound teaching. There should be transparency of workload models for GTAs, e.g. preparation time, marking time and end discrepancies in pay rates and time allocations for different tasks across colleges.

Secure pay: To ensure all GTAs are issued initially with two-year contracts, as per the University’s policy.

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UCU University of Glasgow @ucuglasgow.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Our members have been making the trip to join and support @ducuuo.bsky.social members on the picket lines Extra important given the recent announcement of 632 jobs losses #StopTheCuts #savejobs #dogsonpicketlines

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Kay Guccione @kayguccione.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

The REDS Conference website is now live! redsconference.co.uk Subscribe to receive, by email: 💥 Calls for papers 💥 Conference details 💥 All new posts in the 2024 proceedings collection, and all future conference proceedings. 💥 Call for Advisory Group members. Latest call now live!

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Researcher Education and Development Scholarship Conference

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Richard Budd @ddubdrahcir.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Mmm, 'democratic collapse and persecution of marginalised groups could lead to more international students for the UK' is quite the good news story. Every cloud... ☁️ 😫 www.theguardian.com/education/20...

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Trump’s re-election to boost UK universities as fewer students choose US

During Trump’s first term, the number of international enrolments in the US declined every year

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Evidence Based Education @evidencebased.education · 03/02/2025

A Model for Great Teaching 👀 Today we focus on Dimension 3: Maximising opportunity to learn Did you know that you can try a student survey to generate insights into your classroom environment, aligned to the Model for Great Teaching? Sign up for a Starter Account here 👇 buff.ly/4jBproF

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vaniev.bsky.social @vaniev.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

No way, UKRI-funded PhD students are now eligible for a stipend that matches the national minimum-wage level - an unseen generosity! 🤑 I mean, having more money than less money is always good news (not for me already though), but I can't think how this can be celebrated at all.

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vaniev.bsky.social @vaniev.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

It's funny how @uofglasgow.bsky.social School of Education PGR community is always more than you think! 😅 @laviniahirsu.bsky.social Thank you @conicarde.bsky.social and Diana for the opportunity to gather and talk through the issues of SoE PGRs as well as source suggestions together 🕊️ #PhDLife

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vaniev.bsky.social @vaniev.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

⚠️ 2 out of 3 doctoral researchers do NOT find opportunities to teach at their HEIs. Honestly, it is very worrisome to find such a trend among HEIs, which would rather overload salaried staff with extra teaching rather than employ GTAs and put efforts into developing a new generation of faculty. 😡

Postgraduate Research Experience Survey 2024
Opportunity to teach or demonstrate fell from 45% in 2020 to 37% in 2024 spiking shortly in 2023 (46%).

The largest decline is in terms of teaching opportunities, which are now at their lowest level since before the pandemic. It is well documented that students are facing a squeeze on affordability of higher education, but HEIs are also under significant pressure financially.
While it may be relatively cost effective to deploy PGRs to teach on modules rather than bring in temporary staff, we can also speculate that HEIs may be taking decisions to distribute teaching load more widely among salaried staff as an even more cost-effective
solution. Whatever is driving this, it appears that there are fewer PGRs being afforded this key developmental (and financial) opportunity than in recent years.

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European Educational Research Association - EERA @ecer-eera.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

#ECER2025 Belgrade. "Charting the Way Forward: Education, Research, Potentials and Perspectives". Read the Call and Network Special Calls for ECER 2025, 8 - 12 September. #EdResearch #AcademicChatter #EduSci #ERG SUBMISSION DEADLINE 31 January 2025 buff.ly/4gfOHhA

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vaniev.bsky.social @vaniev.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

📄 First time presenting a method paper at SERA conference with @mmaltcullen.bsky.social – hopefully, more co-authorings and cupcakes to come! 🤞 #PhDLife #seraconf24 #SERA50 @sera-ecr.bsky.social @prithadahal.bsky.social @laviniahirsu.bsky.social

Mapping the sociomaterial: Towards new research possibilities through the lens of Actor-Network Theory (ANT) and Social Network Analysis (SNA)

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