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Lorna Carson @lornacarson.bsky.social · Jun 10

Really powerful South African documentary screened at #ISB2025, “Free to Learn - Soze ungayibambi”, on the use of isiXhosa as well as English from Grade 4 in Basic Education. m.youtube.com/watch?v=EoGg...

Documentary Launch| FREE TO LEARN: SOZE UNGAYIBAMBI!| 26 September 2024

YouTube video by Centre for Multilingualism & Diversities Research

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Tom Hulme @tomhulme.bsky.social · 4d

New article just published from the ‘Queer Northern Ireland: Sexuality before Liberation’ project. Charlie lays out in brilliant (and often depressing) depth how the complex forces of psychiatry and religion shaped the responses to male homosexuality in the decades after WWII.

Charlie Lynch @charlielynch.bsky.social · 4d

“I knew that homosexuality was a sin - I didn’t want to be homosexual. I went to my G.P and said I had read Freud’s book on dreams, that I suffered from homosexuality, and that I would like to change.”

My new article now out in Irish Historical Studies:

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Between sickness and sin: models of male homosexuality in Northern Ireland c.1960-1990 | Irish Historical Studies | Cambridge Core

Between sickness and sin: models of male homosexuality in Northern Ireland c.1960-1990

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Leverhulme Trust @leverhulme.ac.uk · 2d

How can networks help the uncertainty of being a first-gen academic? How did the pandemic impact our attitude towards community? These are just some of the questions discussed in Ep 3 of #ConfessionsOfAnECR with Leonie Smith, @claregs.bsky.social & @devinasarwatay.bsky.social.

tinyurl.com/46cp3bjr

Leonie Smith sits down with Clare Stainthorp and Devina Sarwatay in a podcasting studio.

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Centre Language Education Research, Queen's University Belfast @cler-qub.bsky.social · Aug 13

LIFELANGS: a Living Observatory of Shared Languages and Identities on the Island of Ireland. Delighted to be working with amazing colleagues external partners &project friends🙏https://tinyurl.com/lifelangs

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Centre Language Education Research, Queen's University Belfast @cler-qub.bsky.social · Aug 13

@tcddublin.bsky.social‬ @aislingoboyle.bsky.social‬ ‪@qubelfastofficial.bsky.social‬ @lornacarson.bsky.social‬ ‪@driancollen.bsky.social‬ ‪@colinjflynn.bsky.social‬

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The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social · Aug 11

“Gender studies as a discipline…is defined by a set of debates and problematics.” In this 10-Minute Talk, Judith Butler FBA discusses gender as a field of study and its interdisciplinary contributions to research, social analysis and social movements.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEvH...

Still photograph of Judith Butler, wearing a black jacket and shirt, and looking into the camera. On the right of the image, white text is displayed saying: "10-Minute Talks / Gender as framework / with Judith Butler FBA

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Aisling O’Boyle @aislingoboyle.bsky.social · Aug 9

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Freedom Press @freedompress.bsky.social · Aug 5

Antifascism means building counter-power while we are defending our communities by creating spaces of refusal. The challenge is not just to “fight fascism”, but to confront the system that rewards it—and fears only our capacity to live ungovernable.
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/08/05/o...

One war, many battles: Surveillance, the far-right, and the new war economy - Freedom News

The same logic that obliterates Gaza also demonises migrants in Britain, criminalises dissent, and elevates white nationalist narratives ~ Blade Runner ~ Far-right mobilisation continues across the UK...

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · Aug 5

'A day of connection for history postdocs and late-stage PhDs based in Northern Ireland. The programme of social opportunities and academic and public history sessions will bring the ECR community together in Belfast.'

History Lab Plus @historylabplus.bsky.social · Aug 5

Event announcement! 📣

HL+ Network Northern Ireland 2025 🤝

Join HL+ and friends for a day of social opportunities and academic and public history sessions that will bring the ECR community together in Belfast.

Thursday 25th September - 11:15am to 9pm.

www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

HL+ Network Northern Ireland 2025

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BAAL Conference 2025 @baal2025.bsky.social · Aug 4

Hello all! The schedule for this years BAAL conference is now available to view on the website. Please note, the timetable is subject to change.
Looking forward to seeing you all in September! baal2025.wordpress.com

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Prof Dina Zoe Belluigi @dzbelluigi.bsky.social · Jun 23

Read & Share:

Report on the conference "Let's not talk about racism": Why it is hard to talk about and how this affects society in #NorthernIreland

Free to down from doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Animated slides of text from the report.

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Freedom Press @freedompress.bsky.social · Jun 25

Disabled activists argue that, given our societal context and the gross devaluing of disabled lives, the Bill as currently constructed would pressure disabled and chronically ill people to choose death for fear of being a burden on their relatives or wider society.
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/06/25/a...

Assisted Dying Bill: The neoliberal politics of death - Freedom News

The Assisted Dying Bill cleared the House of Commons in the same week the government confirmed its commitment to slashing financial support for disabled and chronically-ill people ~ punkacademic ~ The...

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Aisling O’Boyle @aislingoboyle.bsky.social · Jun 6

This was a great event with lots of experience and knowledge sharing🙏👏 thank you for the invitation 🙏

Centre Language Education Research, Queen's University Belfast @cler-qub.bsky.social · May 22

Coming up from brilliant colleagues
@ucfl-eca.bsky.social online seminar: "An introduction to policy engagement and language research" 5th June at 16.00 (UK time) All welcome, register here: tinyurl.com/32mk9jvf
@oliviaglaze.bsky.social
@ashleyscottharris.bsky.social
@llewelynhopwood.bsky.social

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Centre Language Education Research, Queen's University Belfast @cler-qub.bsky.social · May 22

Coming up from brilliant colleagues
@ucfl-eca.bsky.social online seminar: "An introduction to policy engagement and language research" 5th June at 16.00 (UK time) All welcome, register here: tinyurl.com/32mk9jvf
@oliviaglaze.bsky.social
@ashleyscottharris.bsky.social
@llewelynhopwood.bsky.social

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Centre Language Education Research, Queen's University Belfast @cler-qub.bsky.social · May 14

Read about our writing retreat thanks to the Landmark Trust Future Schemes. A unique, productive, worthwhile experience. Would thoroughly recommend to any research group. Thank you
tinyurl.com/47waat7t

CLER was delighted to be one of this year’s recipients of Landmark Trust Futures scheme

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Rhona Brown @rhonabrown.bsky.social · May 12

@scotunipress.bsky.social continues to grow and evolve, and you can now publish an #OpenAccess textbook via Scottish Universities Press, allowing your students to download and read teaching texts for free. You can find out more via our press release: www.sup.ac.uk/news/scottis...

Scottish Universities Press unveils new open access textbook programme for 2025 — Scottish Universities Press

We are proud to announce that Scottish Universities Press (SUP) is launching an open access textbook programme, commencing in May 2025. We are now open for textbook proposals from authors affiliated ...

www.sup.ac.uk

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Freedom Press @freedompress.bsky.social · May 13

Like race and class, gender reproduces power through expectation, repetition and fear. Often, conformity to a gender norm is simply the ‘least punished path’: patriarchy is not fixed, it is enforced. And like all forms of enforced domination, it can be resisted.
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/05/13/b...

Beyond binaries: Gender, law and the reproduction of power - Freedom News

As the state doubles down on binary gender, trans resistance challenges the machinery of control from below ~ Blade Runner ~ On 16 April 2025, the UK Supreme Court ruled that the term “woman” in the E...

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Centre Language Education Research, Queen's University Belfast @cler-qub.bsky.social · Apr 17

Thank you to everyone who came along to the Derry Show &Tell workshop last night! @nwmf.bsky.social @flandec.bsky.social @aislingoboyle.bsky.social @paulsceeny.bsky.social It rained, but only on the outside! Great conversations on ways of making community learning seen, transportable, and valued!

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Rebecca Loader @rmloader.bsky.social · Apr 17

How have the education system and the curriculum responded to a more ethnically and culturally diverse Northern Ireland? Our analysis just published in Irish Educational Studies
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@erikafjimenez.bsky.social @aislingoboyle.bsky.social

The educational response to ethnic and cultural diversity in transitional Northern Ireland: a critical review of policy and research

Ethnic diversity has increased substantially in Northern Ireland’s schools over the past two decades, with statistics showing that the number of minority ethnic pupils doubled between 2013 and 2023...

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Aisling O’Boyle @aislingoboyle.bsky.social · Apr 14

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Aisling O’Boyle @aislingoboyle.bsky.social · Mar 30

Places available in Dungannon
@midulsterdc.bsky.social
free workshop for those providing English classes in communities. Wed 2nd April 2025, 6-8pm. All welcome. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/showtell-d...

Show&Tell: DUNGANNON workshop for those providing community English classes

Join us for hands-on workshops to improve your community English teaching skills, incorporating plenary talks, networking, and resources.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Centre Language Education Research, Queen's University Belfast @cler-qub.bsky.social · Mar 27

GREAT evening in Newry with practitioners who provide community English classes! Lots of sharing practices &challenges, and most importantly making connections 🤝
Next one Dungannon! 2nd April 6-8pm www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/showtell-d...

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Centre Language Education Research, Queen's University Belfast @cler-qub.bsky.social · Mar 24

Some places still available for workshop this Wed 26 March at Newry. All welcome and free to attend. Come and network over a cup of tea! Share practices & learn some new ones. All welcome! eventbrite.com/cc/showtell-...

Show&Tell: Community Providers of English Classes

“Show and Tell” is a project with Queen’s University Belfast and Belfast Unemployed Resource Centre delivering 5 training workshops for groups in NI who provide non-formal English classes to migrants...

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Aisling O’Boyle @aislingoboyle.bsky.social · Mar 14

Do you help out in your local community with English classes? Free training workshops around NI. 5 stops: Newry, Dungannon, Belfast, Derry, Lurgan! Come along to share practices&learn some new ones. All welcome! Register here: eventbrite.com/cc/showtell-...

Show&Tell: Community Providers of English Classes

“Show and Tell” is a project with Queen’s University Belfast and Belfast Unemployed Resource Centre delivering 5 training workshops for groups in NI who provide non-formal English classes to migrants...

eventbrite.com

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