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John Heathershaw
@jheathershaw.bsky.social
Professor @cais-exeter.bsky.social University of Exeter, UK. Author of "Security After Christendom" (2024) and "Indulging Kleptocracy" (2025). Academic freedom by/for/of academics.
"It is important to emphasise that such groups ultimately lock in wealth, advantage and connections between their (predominantly male) class-advantaged members."

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Therapy Culture for the Business Class: Exploring How CEO Peer Groups Make and Legitimate Elite Cohesion
In the current context of extreme economic inequality and rising concentrations of income and wealth at the top, the social processes through which elites restrict the wider population's access to re...
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November 14, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Thanks Ian. Let's hope speaking louder and cogently in English about the value of foreign languages will at least make some difference. I'm doing an event for secondary students with @exetermodlangs.bsky.social in December promoting the personal & professional value of Russian and other languages.
November 12, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Instead of imagining that they can manage this market-wide problem out of existence, managers could commit to being more transparent & accountable to their own staff & students, thereby preventing disasters like what happened to Laura Murphy at Sheffield Hallam.

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Model code of conduct: protection of academic freedom and the academic community in the context of the internationalisation of the UK HE sector
Published in The International Journal of Human Rights (Vol. 26, No. 10, 2022)
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November 6, 2025 at 10:46 AM
They will.
November 6, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Their frames of reference are spreadsheets and log frames so they cannot see the unintended consequences of these so called “efficiencies”. It is a function of the increased size and centralisation of Russell group universities that they are imitating each other in their disastrous reforms.
November 6, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Well, if we mean kleptocracy as a transnational enterprise linking pol elites and prof enablers then we address the postimperial (Russia/UK) contexts of this in chapter 2 of the book. If we mean national corruption/patronage systems, there's long Pol/Econ tradition.
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November 4, 2025 at 8:00 AM
"The good faith of all actors in these relationships cannot be assumed, and therefore current protocols on internationalisation require revision. It is important for the UK HE Sector to openly acknowledge these challenges...." 2/2
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Model code of conduct: protection of academic freedom and the academic community in the context of the internationalisation of the UK HE sector
Published in The International Journal of Human Rights (Vol. 26, No. 10, 2022)
www.tandfonline.com
November 3, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Totally. I had 20+ meetings with my first years last week where I emphasised that they can be confident in their own capacity as a writer and learn to be a good one via practice and more practice.
October 27, 2025 at 8:04 AM