Rebecca Hewer
@beckshewer.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer (Chancellor’s Fellow). Author 'Sex-Work, Prostitution & Policy' (Palgrave); Gender & Sexuality Studies: socio-legal regulation & feminist utopias.
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The senior leadership team at @edinburghuniversity plan to cut staff expenditure by £90m, which is more than 10%.
This would mean about 1 in 8 members of staff losing their jobs. With hundreds of jobs already lost, a further 1,000+ jobs are on the line.
www.instagram.com/p/DQuFjwBjHB5/
This would mean about 1 in 8 members of staff losing their jobs. With hundreds of jobs already lost, a further 1,000+ jobs are on the line.
www.instagram.com/p/DQuFjwBjHB5/
November 12, 2025 at 3:49 PM
The senior leadership team at @edinburghuniversity plan to cut staff expenditure by £90m, which is more than 10%.
This would mean about 1 in 8 members of staff losing their jobs. With hundreds of jobs already lost, a further 1,000+ jobs are on the line.
www.instagram.com/p/DQuFjwBjHB5/
This would mean about 1 in 8 members of staff losing their jobs. With hundreds of jobs already lost, a further 1,000+ jobs are on the line.
www.instagram.com/p/DQuFjwBjHB5/
does anyone else ever feel personally victimised by their eyesight?
November 12, 2025 at 10:25 AM
does anyone else ever feel personally victimised by their eyesight?
I was born almost 40 years ago, very close to this view.
October 27, 2025 at 12:03 PM
I was born almost 40 years ago, very close to this view.
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London Skyline developed somewhat, in 40 years.
October 27, 2025 at 7:05 AM
London Skyline developed somewhat, in 40 years.
It would be so helpful if - every so often - we could just sent out a general communication saying "I think I have caught up on email, if you are still waiting for me to respond I have forgotten, please get in touch."
That would make my life measurably better.
That would make my life measurably better.
October 15, 2025 at 2:53 PM
It would be so helpful if - every so often - we could just sent out a general communication saying "I think I have caught up on email, if you are still waiting for me to respond I have forgotten, please get in touch."
That would make my life measurably better.
That would make my life measurably better.
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University leaders: [terminate programs, close campuses, cave in to political pressure from demagogues]
Faculty, students, staff: you’re killing the university
Management consultants: looks like you got a real comms challenge here
Faculty, students, staff: you’re killing the university
Management consultants: looks like you got a real comms challenge here
October 13, 2025 at 11:51 AM
University leaders: [terminate programs, close campuses, cave in to political pressure from demagogues]
Faculty, students, staff: you’re killing the university
Management consultants: looks like you got a real comms challenge here
Faculty, students, staff: you’re killing the university
Management consultants: looks like you got a real comms challenge here
Hi @theguardian.com - unclear why this article is written as if domestic abuse and domestic homicide is a gender neutral phenomenon. The Women’s Aid article clearly identifies those guilty of child murder as fathers. Questionable journalism.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Majority of family court cases in England and Wales feature domestic abuse, watchdog says
Commissioner’s review found 87% of cases uncovered physical, psychological or sexual abuse of a family member
www.theguardian.com
October 9, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Hi @theguardian.com - unclear why this article is written as if domestic abuse and domestic homicide is a gender neutral phenomenon. The Women’s Aid article clearly identifies those guilty of child murder as fathers. Questionable journalism.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Relative child poverty has remained stubbornly high over the last twenty years and has risen over the past decade.
Without action, levels will soon break records.
Scrapping the two-child limit in full would be the most targeted and cost-effective way of reducing child poverty.
Without action, levels will soon break records.
Scrapping the two-child limit in full would be the most targeted and cost-effective way of reducing child poverty.
October 1, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Relative child poverty has remained stubbornly high over the last twenty years and has risen over the past decade.
Without action, levels will soon break records.
Scrapping the two-child limit in full would be the most targeted and cost-effective way of reducing child poverty.
Without action, levels will soon break records.
Scrapping the two-child limit in full would be the most targeted and cost-effective way of reducing child poverty.
How many times a day do we have to ask of Wes Streeting, "is he an idiot or is he evil"?
102,000 hairdressers in England with 40,000 salons
27,000 GPs with 6200 Surgeries
31 million people visit GPs every month a similar number have haircuts
You can see the problem @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social judging by Wes’s trim he is going to the hair salon a lot more than his GP unlike many
27,000 GPs with 6200 Surgeries
31 million people visit GPs every month a similar number have haircuts
You can see the problem @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social judging by Wes’s trim he is going to the hair salon a lot more than his GP unlike many
October 1, 2025 at 12:31 PM
How many times a day do we have to ask of Wes Streeting, "is he an idiot or is he evil"?
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“I don’t think the government can afford to bury our heads in the sand about the fact that trans people in our country today feel less safe than they did 10 years ago.”
Do you think he practiced that in the mirror?
Do you think he practiced that in the mirror?
Wes Streeting has called it “laughable” that rising racism and homophobia is a sign of free speech in a strongly worded intervention suggesting Labour needed to step up its defence of minorities
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
We must tackle rising tide of racism and homophobia claiming to be free speech, says Streeting
Exclusive: Health secretary says Labour cannot afford to ignore far-right protests as Starmer under pressure
www.theguardian.com
September 17, 2025 at 8:30 AM
“I don’t think the government can afford to bury our heads in the sand about the fact that trans people in our country today feel less safe than they did 10 years ago.”
Do you think he practiced that in the mirror?
Do you think he practiced that in the mirror?
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This week is a 5 day strike at University of Edinburgh in response to management decisions and practices around £120m cuts & UCU’s concerns around workloads, teaching, and research quality.
September 9, 2025 at 12:57 PM
This week is a 5 day strike at University of Edinburgh in response to management decisions and practices around £120m cuts & UCU’s concerns around workloads, teaching, and research quality.
The things we refuse to learn are always reflections of power settlements. Take for example the 'great man' fallacy, repeatedly undermined by so-called great men, and yet just relentless in its persistence.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
‘A class act’: Tim Allan, the former Blair ‘smoother’ recalled to Downing Street
Described as inscrutable and smart, the PR man has a job on his hands to turn around No 10’s communications effort
www.theguardian.com
September 3, 2025 at 1:38 PM
The things we refuse to learn are always reflections of power settlements. Take for example the 'great man' fallacy, repeatedly undermined by so-called great men, and yet just relentless in its persistence.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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I'm very excited to share that the next SSAHE webinar will be a celebration of my new book - Borders, Citizenship, and Pregnancy - and of Bordering Social Reproduction by Rachel Rosen and Eve Dickson. Please register and join us online, 9 October, at 5pm #AcademicSky
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Next webinar: Bordering/Mothering, 9 October
Register on EventBrite to receive a Zoom link. In this event, we will celebrate two new books by SSAHE members: Bordering social reproduction: Migrant mothers and children making lives in the …
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September 3, 2025 at 1:27 PM
I'm very excited to share that the next SSAHE webinar will be a celebration of my new book - Borders, Citizenship, and Pregnancy - and of Bordering Social Reproduction by Rachel Rosen and Eve Dickson. Please register and join us online, 9 October, at 5pm #AcademicSky
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Alongside Dr. Ganguli-Mitra, the postholder will develop a project related to epistemic and structural injustice in abortion care, informed by intersectional and transnational feminist approaches, as well as relevant data from practice, governance and activism in relation to care in abortion.
Postdoctoral Fellow working on Abortion Care, based in Law and working with Dr Agomoni Ganguli-Mitra. @agomoni.bsky.social
Apply here: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Apply here: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
The Law School within The University of Edinburgh is looking for a Postdoctoral Fellow to work on the Wellcome funded Discovery Award Medicine without Doctors.
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September 3, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Alongside Dr. Ganguli-Mitra, the postholder will develop a project related to epistemic and structural injustice in abortion care, informed by intersectional and transnational feminist approaches, as well as relevant data from practice, governance and activism in relation to care in abortion.
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A university's most precious long-term asset (faculty) is the same population of workers that most universities do everything they can to render precarious, anxious, and isolated. I'm a consultant now, give me a million dollars
September 1, 2025 at 4:23 PM
A university's most precious long-term asset (faculty) is the same population of workers that most universities do everything they can to render precarious, anxious, and isolated. I'm a consultant now, give me a million dollars
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My dad died last week, and he was - by any objective measure - the very best. You can read about him here: obituaries.startribune.com/obituary/wil...
Will Kenny Obituary | Minnesota Star Tribune
View Will Kenny's complete obituary, share memories, and explore 2 tribute posts from the community.
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August 26, 2025 at 1:25 PM
My dad died last week, and he was - by any objective measure - the very best. You can read about him here: obituaries.startribune.com/obituary/wil...
I wrote a haiku about returning from my sabbatical
My diary was empty
But now it is full
I yearn for the in-between
My diary was empty
But now it is full
I yearn for the in-between
August 21, 2025 at 11:52 AM
I wrote a haiku about returning from my sabbatical
My diary was empty
But now it is full
I yearn for the in-between
My diary was empty
But now it is full
I yearn for the in-between
This is your annual reminder that industrial action is more than a protest, it is a withdrawal of labour with the intention of leveraging that withdrawal for improved working conditions.
August 19, 2025 at 4:24 PM
This is your annual reminder that industrial action is more than a protest, it is a withdrawal of labour with the intention of leveraging that withdrawal for improved working conditions.
This is being retweeted by numerous academics on my feed shocked that the figure is so low. This is unsurprising as the majority of hardworking academics I know (including me) are driven by spite.
August 14, 2025 at 9:51 AM
This is being retweeted by numerous academics on my feed shocked that the figure is so low. This is unsurprising as the majority of hardworking academics I know (including me) are driven by spite.
Today I became a Senior Lecturer!
August 1, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Today I became a Senior Lecturer!
This year my child's nursery fees rose by 14% and my pay rose by 1.4%.... that seems a bit on the nose
July 22, 2025 at 1:40 PM
This year my child's nursery fees rose by 14% and my pay rose by 1.4%.... that seems a bit on the nose
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hey does anyone need a 12ft by 11ft woolen map of Ireland
Women seek home for 12ft by 11ft woollen map of Ireland
https://www.thejournal.ie/woollen-map-of-ireland-6763400-Jul2025/?jrnl_lg=1
https://www.thejournal.ie/woollen-map-of-ireland-6763400-Jul2025/?jrnl_lg=1
Women seek home for 12ft by 11ft woollen map of Ireland
A group of up to 18 women in Co Wicklow, made up of skilled knitters, sewers and crocheters, started the project in 2019.
www.thejournal.ie
July 17, 2025 at 2:09 AM
hey does anyone need a 12ft by 11ft woolen map of Ireland
This week the Department for Work and Pensions explicitly ignored my research findings, instead of implicitly doing so (or being totally unaware of them). REF Impact Case Study?! I think so.
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Written questions and answers - Written questions, answers and statements - UK Parliament
Information from UK Parliament on written questions & answers, written statements and daily reports.
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July 17, 2025 at 10:40 AM
This week the Department for Work and Pensions explicitly ignored my research findings, instead of implicitly doing so (or being totally unaware of them). REF Impact Case Study?! I think so.
questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-ques...
questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-ques...
The release of the 2025 two-child limit statistics statement makes for interesting reading, not least because (unlike in previous years) it includes demographic data. Most notable is that 98% of impacted households included at least one female claimant, whilst only 47% contained at least one male.
July 16, 2025 at 8:34 AM
The release of the 2025 two-child limit statistics statement makes for interesting reading, not least because (unlike in previous years) it includes demographic data. Most notable is that 98% of impacted households included at least one female claimant, whilst only 47% contained at least one male.
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You have to laugh, really.
July 2, 2025 at 4:55 PM
You have to laugh, really.