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‚You’re our last hope!‘ – Some thoughts on the culture of self-exploitation
This article was posted originally on Criminologia.de in July 2013. You can read the original here. How I came to…
Introducing the Social Mindfulness Voices project
The excerpt below is taken from the introduction to the Social Mindfulness Toolbox, a project I was involved in between…
We must confront the culture of overwork to tackle academia’s mental health crisis
This article was originally published on the Times Higher Education Blog on the 4. June 2018. You can read the…
Why is marking so shit?
Why is marking so shit? This article was originally developed as two threads on Twitter. You can find them (and…
Three things I want you all to stop saying to casualised workers
This article was originally developed as a thread on Twitter. Read the original thread here. Here’s three things I want…
We need to talk about the relationship between casualisation, workload and bullying
We need to talk about the relationship between casualisation, workload and bullying and why those who need unions most can be the hardest to organise
I got told what to call this poem by my male colleague
This poem is for all the men Who have sacrificed their time To explain my research to me. In train…
Resilience or Fuck You Neoliberalism – a strike poem
I should do a squat every day My yoga teacher tells me While I am perched awkwardly on my mat…
Impostor Syndrome and the Paradox of Agency
Rather, we need to understand impostor syndrome as a form of social sufferingg, as a symptom, not of something wrong with us, but with the world we live and work in. In this short article I will explore impostor syndrome in terms of how it reflects on our sense of belonging and the conflicting values we are faced as academics and how it shows us the paradoxical nature of neoliberal agency.
Thinking in the Open 