Pam Lock

Aw look at those toes!

Spot on 🧵

I've seen education transform peoples lives. People this chap would gladly leave behind. People I bump into who tell me how improved their lives are since I worked with them on Access to HE courses at an FE College in Bristol.

This appalling fat cat wants to shut the door on all my mature students, many of whom left school after GCSE and give up a lot to go to university. I can tell him that they’re the hungriest for education and far from being unable to graduate, they regularly get the highest grades. Hateful man.

Pun of the day for me!

In bed. Rosa, a tortoiseshell cat sitting on my torso, next to my kindle, trying to persuade me it isn't too early for breakfast

An early caturday reading in bed with my two lovelies

We should be fighting against student loans not students who didn't or couldn't do A-levels. The civic roots of HE and alternative routes into it are key to universities' roles in improving all of our society. Study at this level is not for everyone but we should be as inclusive as possible

Vice-chancellor calls for review into student loans for those without A-levels Adam Tickell, of University of Birmingham, says money is lent to people who ‘are not really capable of graduating’

Oh this makes me cross. I've spent years teaching mature students w/o A-levels. This totally depends on the student, their background, their spark to learn & the support they get. Seeing them light up w their love of learning & changing their lives for the better.

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After so much bad news recently your presentation was a breath of fresh and fabulous air that felt inspiring and exciting. Will be picking your brains at some point ....

Brilliant news! Watched @benwt.bsky.social presentation on this project today and it looks so awesome. A great example of public centred yet academically rigorous and exciting research. A hard trio to achieve!

Thanks Martin!

Definitely not a weirdo. Everyone I speak to about this work feels the same!

Bristol academic to lead discussion on macabre Victorian phenomenon The curious phenomenon gripped the 19th-century Britain

Lovely piece on my upcoming talk in @bristol247.bsky.social by a recently graduated student from ELCE. Please share - we have seats and all proceed go to the brilliant @arnosvalecemetery.bsky.social

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: Half of UK universities face a deficit next year. Up to 50 could close.

That is a sector in crisis. Simply blaming a tuition fee freeze and nudging fees up with inflation is not a plan. Where is the long-term strategy for higher education?

#Universities #HigherEducation

Yes. I chose it as she is an early female detective but I also think he is fascinating. Problematic in some ways, powerful in others

I fear she steals the prawns off her customers orders so don't expect a big portion....

@jendeavour.bsky.social looks less professional than Rosa's noodle bar to me....

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Signed giclee prints of my Woman in Black illustrations.

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So lovely!

Reposts of my posts about the originals and prints of The Woman in Black/Signalman illustrations MASSIVELY appreciated.

Cheers! 😊👊🏻

A black pen in a crosshatch technique and black printing ink applied with a roller illustration on off white paper. A large Victorian house sits on a small island surrounded by a bleak estuary, a winding causeway trails across the muddy marshland to the island. A grey & gloomy sky, patches of dappled light on the water. Bleak and atmospheric.

It’s nice and sunny today so I highly recommend that you make your day even more enjoyable by purchasing this original artwork I made for The Woman in Black for just £100 plus P&P 👍🏻😉

Every time I see some racist **$&$*** insult the RNLI in the press, I make a donation. Turning their bullsh*t into a game which supports the amazing work the RNLI do.

@joparsons.bsky.social

Alcohol – the biology of addiction and its effect on the liver In this seminar, two experts will talk about their research into the neurobiology of addiction and alcohol’s effect on the liver.

Online seminar @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social: Alcohol – the biology of addiction and its effect on the liver - February 20 www.imperial.ac.uk/events/20538...

Yes, great advice, this always helps so much!

a bald man is smiling and saying `` you fell victim to one of the classic blunders ! `` ALT: a bald man is smiling and saying `` you fell victim to one of the classic blunders ! ``

This is my annual call for writing advice from the academic world for my dissertation students. What do you most like/dislike about writing? What is one tip you value more than anything else?

PhD students in the UK with a Victorianist bent will want to take particular note of the placement titled "Illustrated Newspapers: Beyond the Illustrated London News": cdn.sanity.io/files/v5dwki...
@rs4vp.org #Victorian

Cool truck

Big up our brilliant @ehunineteen.bsky.social postgraduate researchers who are putting on a Placing the Nineteenth Century conference in June!

We have booked the garden room of the business school and are relying on that balmy North West summer weather 😎

If you are reading this it is because I’m dead: here’s what I want to tell you about how to live | Carlos Hernández de Miguel Leaving this world in an age of lies and cruelty, my last message is simple: don’t give up on truth, says Spanish journalist Carlos Hernández de Miguel

"Objectivity is not the same as neutrality. If there is an aggressor and a victim, a liar and an honest person, a corrupt individual and an honourable one, then your task is to describe all that clearly and forcefully."

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