I'm very excited to be working with @unitefoundation.bsky.social to share my PhD research for Estranged Students Solidarity Week! Sign up to the webinar to learn more about the study & supporting estranged students!

📅 Thu 27th Nov @ 12pm GMT
✨ bit.ly/ESSW2025

#EstrangedStudents #HigherEducation

I'm very excited to be working with @unitefoundation.bsky.social to share my PhD research for Estranged Students Solidarity Week! Sign up to the webinar to learn more about the study & supporting estranged students!

📅 Thu 27th Nov @ 12pm GMT
✨ bit.ly/ESSW2025

#EstrangedStudents #HigherEducation

official email in: I have completed my PhD! 🎉

My thesis on the experiences of estranged students in UK higher education is now publicly available!! I'm beyond proud of this research project and I'm excited that I can finally share this work with everyone! #PhDone

etheses.dur.ac.uk/16183/

I took some well-needed time off after my viva and I've started working on my thesis corrections today! thankfully it's a very short list of corrections, but it's still nice to come in with a fresh perspective and make the final changes!

very excited for it to be available to the world soon 🎉

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and big love to @ecologybat.bsky.social for the badge as a present 💜💜

delighted to share that I passed my PhD viva with minor corrections today! 🎉

had a really positive viva with kind and constructive examiners @drannallewellyn.bsky.social & @drzoebaker.bsky.social!

looking forward to sharing more of my work soon, but first is celebrating & rest 💜

TW: harm to children.

My research into the effects of the UK government puberty-blocker ban has finally been published after peer-review.

It details the severe harm being caused to young trans people & children by the Starmer government's puberty-blocker ban.

Unlike Cass it is peer reviewed...

it's been a long and intense five years, but I'm so glad to have made it to the finishing line!! and on Trans Day of Visibility of all days! 🎉

big thank yous to my fantastic supervisors @rilleraaper.bsky.social and Vikki Boliver for all of their support to make it through! 💕

I submit my PhD thesis in 2 weeks (!!!!) - accepting any and all advice on how to keep level-headed and avoid (too many) tears over the next few days✨

#academicsky #PhDsky

I've been doing coworking streams throughout my PhD, but will be doing a LOT over March as I finish writing my thesis ready for my 31st deadline!!

if you would benefit from body doubling spaces, or are just curious about how livestreaming can be a productive community space, feel free to come by!

today while working on one of my PhD chapters, my cat Pepper stepped on my keyboard and pressed CTRL+A to select all, then deleted the entire document. I'm taking this as a sign that my writing needs improvements 😂

NEW on Wonkhe: Care leavers and estranged students in SLC data https://buff.ly/3Cn0ZXq

This is great! Would love to see more research in easy-read format!

My new paper has just been published! An easy-read formatted paper that encourages and asks questions about who we assume 'belongs' in #Geography (and academia more broadly)! Have you used easy-read before? I'd love to hear from others exploring inclusive research!

fennia.journal.fi/article/view...

just blurted out in class "yes, you have to cite where you got your info. in a world in which lying loudly is the only thing that seems to get rewarded, citing your sources is an act of resistance" and folks, I really believe that.

officially less than 100 days until PhD hand-in!! 👀

!! omg hi Kat!! they look SO similar 🥰😭

is #AcademicsWithCats still a thing? regardless I love to share pictures of my three tortie girls! 😻

Jodie (middle) is the mum of Pepper (left) & Moose (right) - a whole family of angry girls taking up my desk definitely helps with thesis writing!! 💕

hi! I'm Artie Waterman (they/them), a final year PhD student in Sociology of Education at Durham University researching the experiences of estranged students in UK higher education! 👋

I'm spending less time on Twitter & wanted to join #AcademicSky #PhDSky (or whatever exists here)! 🥰