Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts

elliemackinroberts.net

25 June 2026 05:52

I am once again begging universities to realise that staff - academic, professional services, estates, all of them - are the product they are trying to sell. Without staff there is nothing to sell. No amount of flashy buildings will replace staff in universities. UKHE is in freefall.

Jo Wolff

jowolff.bsky.social

15 June 2026 18:37

Time for me to repeat one of my ‘sayings’. If you try to solve a problem by passing a law, but people don’t obey the law, you now have two problems where you used to have one.

Caroline Rusterholz

carorusterholz.bsky.social

12 June 2026 20:38

My copy of Dealing With Drugs. New Histories of Risk and Benefit has just arrived. Very pleased to see my chapter published in this wonderful volume!

Gav Maclean

gavmaclean.bsky.social

29 May 2026 21:52

If I hear one more university leader say they're making "tough decisions" about redundancies or worsening our employment conditions, I will scream. They are not making tough choices, they're making the easiest decisions in the world. Tough decisions would be fighting the inevitability of job losses

Pluto Press

plutopress.bsky.social

16 May 2026 11:49

“Once read, it leaves behind a lingering question, one that is as uncomfortable as it is necessary: who, exactly, is being centred—and at whose expense?” The Othered Woman by Shahed Ezaydi reviewed in CAGE International: www.cage.ngo/articles/the...