Paul Kitchin
@ulstergmro.bsky.social
I’m an academic based at Ulster University exploring youth, sport, gambling, and disability.
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How the Victorians invented the gym selfie. British and Irish men in the 1890s mailed their portraits to fitness guru Eugen Sandow, who created a global business with gyms, books and training kits, writes @physcstudy.bsky.social @ulsteruni.bsky.social @researchireland.ie www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
How the Victorians invented the gym selfie
British and Irish men in the 1890s mailed their portraits to fitness guru Eugen Sandow, who created a global business with gyms, books and training kits
www.rte.ie
November 25, 2025 at 4:01 PM
How the Victorians invented the gym selfie. British and Irish men in the 1890s mailed their portraits to fitness guru Eugen Sandow, who created a global business with gyms, books and training kits, writes @physcstudy.bsky.social @ulsteruni.bsky.social @researchireland.ie www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
wonderful!
November 24, 2025 at 8:49 PM
wonderful!
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Dear @economy-ni.gov.uk, will you publish the rationale for rejecting individual PhD projects submitted by researchers at Ulster Uni and Queen's?
November 20, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Dear @economy-ni.gov.uk, will you publish the rationale for rejecting individual PhD projects submitted by researchers at Ulster Uni and Queen's?
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NEW
The letter the BBC could send back to Trump
A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim
By me. Enjoy.
emptycity.substack.com/p/the-letter...
The letter the BBC could send back to Trump
A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim
By me. Enjoy.
emptycity.substack.com/p/the-letter...
The letter the BBC could send back to Trump
A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim
emptycity.substack.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:00 PM
NEW
The letter the BBC could send back to Trump
A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim
By me. Enjoy.
emptycity.substack.com/p/the-letter...
The letter the BBC could send back to Trump
A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim
By me. Enjoy.
emptycity.substack.com/p/the-letter...
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"When public services become PR: How charities and corporations blur the line between care and self-promotion" by @stephenlongaus.bsky.social
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
When public services become PR: How charities and corporations blur the line between care and self-promotion
There are certainly cases where working with a charity lets government draw on specific expertise and enhance service delivery. But too often, that’s not the case.
thepoint.com.au
October 30, 2025 at 3:22 AM
"When public services become PR: How charities and corporations blur the line between care and self-promotion" by @stephenlongaus.bsky.social
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
Super piece by Jonathan Liew www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I hope Yazley-Lennon attends and gets his deserved treatment...
But the real villains are the spineless politicians who Jon Snow on football, yet again.
I hope Yazley-Lennon attends and gets his deserved treatment...
But the real villains are the spineless politicians who Jon Snow on football, yet again.
October 21, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Super piece by Jonathan Liew www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I hope Yazley-Lennon attends and gets his deserved treatment...
But the real villains are the spineless politicians who Jon Snow on football, yet again.
I hope Yazley-Lennon attends and gets his deserved treatment...
But the real villains are the spineless politicians who Jon Snow on football, yet again.
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UK Universities cut 12,000 jobs, more on the way.
40% of Unis in financial crisis.
Major exporter destroyed by successive govts
Obstacles for foreign students.
Low fees in England, lack of govt funding.
£267bn student debt.
Home student numbers down.
How will the UK compete with other nations?
40% of Unis in financial crisis.
Major exporter destroyed by successive govts
Obstacles for foreign students.
Low fees in England, lack of govt funding.
£267bn student debt.
Home student numbers down.
How will the UK compete with other nations?
Thousands more university jobs cut as financial crisis deepens
University workers will vote on national strike action this month over a 1.4% pay offer made in the summer.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 10, 2025 at 6:27 AM
UK Universities cut 12,000 jobs, more on the way.
40% of Unis in financial crisis.
Major exporter destroyed by successive govts
Obstacles for foreign students.
Low fees in England, lack of govt funding.
£267bn student debt.
Home student numbers down.
How will the UK compete with other nations?
40% of Unis in financial crisis.
Major exporter destroyed by successive govts
Obstacles for foreign students.
Low fees in England, lack of govt funding.
£267bn student debt.
Home student numbers down.
How will the UK compete with other nations?
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🚨 Last week, EA was sold for a massive $55bn (£41bn).
The buyers?
Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF), a private equity firm and Jared Kushner’s Affinity Partners.
The world of gaming is fast becoming a wild west for polluter advertising and sponsorship. 🧵 1/6
The buyers?
Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF), a private equity firm and Jared Kushner’s Affinity Partners.
The world of gaming is fast becoming a wild west for polluter advertising and sponsorship. 🧵 1/6
Gaming giant Electronic Arts bought in unprecedented $55bn deal
EA is known for making best-selling games such as EA FC, The Sims and Mass Effect.
www.bbc.com
October 6, 2025 at 11:09 AM
🚨 Last week, EA was sold for a massive $55bn (£41bn).
The buyers?
Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF), a private equity firm and Jared Kushner’s Affinity Partners.
The world of gaming is fast becoming a wild west for polluter advertising and sponsorship. 🧵 1/6
The buyers?
Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF), a private equity firm and Jared Kushner’s Affinity Partners.
The world of gaming is fast becoming a wild west for polluter advertising and sponsorship. 🧵 1/6
check our Erin's event at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/when-the-g...
October 6, 2025 at 11:54 AM
check our Erin's event at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/when-the-g...
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The ESRC Festival of Social Science returns from 18 Oct – 8 Nov 2025.
This year’s theme, ‘Our Working Lives’, explores how technology has shaped work over the past century and what the future may hold:
https://ow.ly/4Ho850X64zF
#WeAreUU | Queen's University Belfast | UK Research and Innovation
This year’s theme, ‘Our Working Lives’, explores how technology has shaped work over the past century and what the future may hold:
https://ow.ly/4Ho850X64zF
#WeAreUU | Queen's University Belfast | UK Research and Innovation
October 6, 2025 at 8:11 AM
The ESRC Festival of Social Science returns from 18 Oct – 8 Nov 2025.
This year’s theme, ‘Our Working Lives’, explores how technology has shaped work over the past century and what the future may hold:
https://ow.ly/4Ho850X64zF
#WeAreUU | Queen's University Belfast | UK Research and Innovation
This year’s theme, ‘Our Working Lives’, explores how technology has shaped work over the past century and what the future may hold:
https://ow.ly/4Ho850X64zF
#WeAreUU | Queen's University Belfast | UK Research and Innovation
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RECORDING: All-island public health conference addresses commercial factors that influence our health www.publichealth.ie/events/recor...
RECORDING: All-island public health conference addresses commercial factors that influence our health | Institute of Public Health
www.publichealth.ie
September 26, 2025 at 2:13 PM
RECORDING: All-island public health conference addresses commercial factors that influence our health www.publichealth.ie/events/recor...
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Thinking and Caring With Arts-Based Research: An Assemblage of Methods to Promote Public Health
Ann Dadich, Chloe Watfern, Barbara Doran, and Katherine Boydell
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
@ijqmonline.bsky.social
Ann Dadich, Chloe Watfern, Barbara Doran, and Katherine Boydell
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
@ijqmonline.bsky.social
Thinking and Caring With Arts-Based Research: An Assemblage of Methods to Promote Public Health - Ann Dadich, Chloe Watfern, Barbara Doran, Katherine Boydell, 2025
What do we learn when we invite others to make and create? How can drawing, cutting and pasting, repurposing objects, and photography enable us to explore compl...
journals.sagepub.com
September 25, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Thinking and Caring With Arts-Based Research: An Assemblage of Methods to Promote Public Health
Ann Dadich, Chloe Watfern, Barbara Doran, and Katherine Boydell
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
@ijqmonline.bsky.social
Ann Dadich, Chloe Watfern, Barbara Doran, and Katherine Boydell
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
@ijqmonline.bsky.social
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It's simple, if you throw paint on a plane then you get proscribed and any 80 year olds defending you get arrested.
If you ask people to burn down hotels, and they try, you get an interview in the Telegraph and positive coverage in the BBC.
That's sensible, proportionate policing.
If you ask people to burn down hotels, and they try, you get an interview in the Telegraph and positive coverage in the BBC.
That's sensible, proportionate policing.
August 23, 2025 at 10:23 AM
It's simple, if you throw paint on a plane then you get proscribed and any 80 year olds defending you get arrested.
If you ask people to burn down hotels, and they try, you get an interview in the Telegraph and positive coverage in the BBC.
That's sensible, proportionate policing.
If you ask people to burn down hotels, and they try, you get an interview in the Telegraph and positive coverage in the BBC.
That's sensible, proportionate policing.
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This is certainly one way of saying “pathetic turnout by the fascists, outnumbered nearly two to one by decent people, despite weeks of bloodthirsty media coverage”
Hundreds turn out for Perth protests over asylum hotels
About 150 protestors and 250 counter protestors held signs and chanted outside of the Radisson Blu hotel.
www.bbc.co.uk
August 23, 2025 at 1:03 PM
This is certainly one way of saying “pathetic turnout by the fascists, outnumbered nearly two to one by decent people, despite weeks of bloodthirsty media coverage”
The British cannot stand being told by the Irish they are wrong.
good explainer if you’re confused why some people are calling for Sally Rooney to be charged as a terrorism supporter
Sally Rooney Dares The British Government To Follow Through | Defector
There is a long history of people being weird about Sally Rooney: Her books are too Marxist or not Marxist enough; she glamorizes thinness, stigmatizes BDSM, and promotes unhealthy age-gap relations; ...
defector.com
August 23, 2025 at 8:46 AM
The British cannot stand being told by the Irish they are wrong.
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I've been thinking a lot about the Reform UK football kit launch and what it says about the place of football culture in UK politics.
This piece in @uk.theconversation.com asks if Reform can become the party of the football supporter.
Spoiler: I'm skeptical.
theconversation.com/football-fan...
This piece in @uk.theconversation.com asks if Reform can become the party of the football supporter.
Spoiler: I'm skeptical.
theconversation.com/football-fan...
Football fans will see Nigel Farage’s branded kit for the cynical move it is
The pale blue strip is unlikely to become Reform’s version of the Maga hat.
theconversation.com
August 22, 2025 at 7:36 AM
I've been thinking a lot about the Reform UK football kit launch and what it says about the place of football culture in UK politics.
This piece in @uk.theconversation.com asks if Reform can become the party of the football supporter.
Spoiler: I'm skeptical.
theconversation.com/football-fan...
This piece in @uk.theconversation.com asks if Reform can become the party of the football supporter.
Spoiler: I'm skeptical.
theconversation.com/football-fan...
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Here's a fact for you all.
Prior to 2017 there was not a single documented case of any individual travelling by small boats across the English Channel to caim asylum in the UK.
Not ONE.
This current 'boats' crisis has been largely caused by Brexit.
But for some reason NOBODY is saying that.
Prior to 2017 there was not a single documented case of any individual travelling by small boats across the English Channel to caim asylum in the UK.
Not ONE.
This current 'boats' crisis has been largely caused by Brexit.
But for some reason NOBODY is saying that.
August 19, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Here's a fact for you all.
Prior to 2017 there was not a single documented case of any individual travelling by small boats across the English Channel to caim asylum in the UK.
Not ONE.
This current 'boats' crisis has been largely caused by Brexit.
But for some reason NOBODY is saying that.
Prior to 2017 there was not a single documented case of any individual travelling by small boats across the English Channel to caim asylum in the UK.
Not ONE.
This current 'boats' crisis has been largely caused by Brexit.
But for some reason NOBODY is saying that.
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'm quoted in a Times Higher Education article today on the new system for gambling harms research funding. We need more people doing work in this area, even if it makes it more competitive for established researchers to secure funding.
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/gamblin...
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/gamblin...
Gambling research ‘at risk of going backwards’ despite new levy
UKRI handed more cash for betting-related research but campaigners claim ‘industry-friendly’ funding call stops ‘fresh start’ from old regime
www.timeshighereducation.com
August 19, 2025 at 10:04 AM
'm quoted in a Times Higher Education article today on the new system for gambling harms research funding. We need more people doing work in this area, even if it makes it more competitive for established researchers to secure funding.
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/gamblin...
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/gamblin...
Do you have a high street full of gambling shops breeding poverty and addiction? I have a way to fight back (Dawn Butler)
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Do you have a high street full of gambling shops breeding poverty and addiction? I have a way to fight back | Dawn Butler
Communities feel powerless because the law gives betting firms the upper hand. But a simple change could transfer power to the people, says MP Dawn Butler
www.theguardian.com
August 19, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Do you have a high street full of gambling shops breeding poverty and addiction? I have a way to fight back (Dawn Butler)
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Really good analysis of the "delete old emails to save water" nonsense that's been going around lately.
There are FAR better ways to save water - which people should be doing!
andymasley.substack.com/p/contra-the...
There are FAR better ways to save water - which people should be doing!
andymasley.substack.com/p/contra-the...
Contra the UK government, please don't delete your old photos and emails to save water
You'd need to delete hundreds of millions of emails to save as much water as fixing your toilet
andymasley.substack.com
August 16, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Really good analysis of the "delete old emails to save water" nonsense that's been going around lately.
There are FAR better ways to save water - which people should be doing!
andymasley.substack.com/p/contra-the...
There are FAR better ways to save water - which people should be doing!
andymasley.substack.com/p/contra-the...
The Friends' School in Hobart boycotts STEM programs sponsored by weapons manufacturers.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
World's largest Quaker school boycotts weapons-sponsored STEM programs
The Friends' School in Hobart — the world's largest Quaker school — says the weapons sponsorships do not align with the school's peaceful philosophy.
www.abc.net.au
August 15, 2025 at 8:47 AM
The Friends' School in Hobart boycotts STEM programs sponsored by weapons manufacturers.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
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Killing journalists.
My @smh cartoon.
My @smh cartoon.
August 12, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Killing journalists.
My @smh cartoon.
My @smh cartoon.
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The shortlist for this year's Lord Aberdare Prize has just been announced and features authors such as Conor Murray, Matt McDowell, Conor Heffernan, as well as Matthew Llewellyn & Toby Rider, best of luck guys...
August 12, 2025 at 3:56 PM
The shortlist for this year's Lord Aberdare Prize has just been announced and features authors such as Conor Murray, Matt McDowell, Conor Heffernan, as well as Matthew Llewellyn & Toby Rider, best of luck guys...