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Isabel Sykes
@IOJ_Sykes
@TECHNEDTP PhD candidate at @Bruneluni. Current research in class, domestic labour, and social media. She/Her. Find me on isabel-sykes.bsky.social
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Signed in opposition the horrific cuts to academic and professional services jobs as well as student funds and resources going on at Brunel currently. As a PhD student about to enter the HE job market it's hard not to feel completely despondent. #STOPtheCUTS.
Higher education is on its knees. We must #STOPtheCUTS ✂️
Sign the petition 👇
stopthecutspetition.org.uk
Job cuts, course cuts, real term pay cuts.
ONE in TWO universities cutting jobs or announcing redundancies.
We need urgent government intervention to #FundHENow.View quoted post on X
So excited that my paper 'Clean girls, tradwives, and stay-at-home girlfriends: the romanticisation of domestic labour on TikTok' has been accepted for the Console-ing Passions Conference 2025! See you in June Atlanta 🤟 fmt.gsu.edu/console-ing-pa…
fmt.gsu.edu Console-ing Passions Conference 2025 | School of Film, Media & Theatre | Georgia State University The Console-ing Passions 2025 conference is an international conference on television, video, audio, new media, and feminism. Link to our latest Technecast episode featuring guests studying PhDs in music from different genres and perspectives - plus some cracking song recommendations open.spotify.com/episode/3jQ1wK…
For our latest episode of Technecast we put together a roundtable discussion on the theme of 'care' in academia - I share some thoughts on care as gendered labour and the role of universities within this open.spotify.com/episode/6xvDt7…