Nicola Kirkby

Photo of students and staff from our first Diverse CDT cohort working through a group data visualization exercise together around a table in our dedicated visualization lab.

Photo of three students from our first cohort of Diverse-CDT PhD students reading and discussing visual thinking in our dedicated visualization workspace.

Sketch of a 'skills map' design co-created by Diverse-CDT PhD students during their first 'immersion week' at the start of their PhD journey. Sketch courtesy of Ana Marques, one of the students. It comprise a series of coloured dots, each representing a skill held by one or more of the students. Dots are clustered by skill type with some labelled for context. Dots are connected with lines in a tree-like structure with 'Diverse CDT' at the centre emphasising relationship between skills and skill types.

A photo of our first cohort of Diverse CDT PhD students who embarked on their PhD journey together in October 2025. Students are located in our dedicated Visualization learning space, posing for the camera with arms folded.

Interested in a fully-funded #datavis PhD with training?

Applications for our 2nd cohort of PhD students at Diverse-CDT open! We're keen to diversify the sector, encouraging anyone with enthusiasm for using 📊 to make change, even if you've not considered PhD study before:

diverse-cdt.ac.uk

A magazine, The Nursing Clio Reader, and a booklet sit on a white bookshelf. Lying across the front is a Grammar Gavel.

When I quit grad school and left academia, I assumed I would never publish a book. So The @nursingclio.bsky.social Reader is a literal dream come true. And now it gets to sit on my shelf with other publications that I have shepherded as an editor. www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/the-nursing-...

With huge thanks to @universitypress.cambridge.org, and an absolute village of colleagues, readers, badgerers, and dear friends for keeping this book on track.

Railway Infrastructure and the Victorian Novel | Cambridge University Press & Assessment

Book news! I’m pleased to say that Railway Infrastructure and the Victoria Novel is now in circulation www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...

Disability is the one minority group that anyone could potentially join at any time. It spans all ages, classes, races, religions, genders, geography….

Disability justice intersects with every other form of oppression; ensuring disabled rights is key to ensuring human rights.

'I have a lifeline scholarship to study in Scotland - but I'm trapped in Gaza' Shaimaa Abulebda has been given the chance to reclaim some of her old life - but remains stuck in Gaza because of government red tape.

Shaimaa has a funded place at Edinburgh to study for a PhD with me, but is stuck in Gaza due to Home Office restrictions. I'm proud of her for speaking about her situation on TV and grateful to reporter Paris Gourtsoyannis for covering her story. news.stv.tv/east-central...

I'm seeing an uptick in journal editors inquiring about @openlibhums.bsky.social and scholar-led, non-profit diamond #OpenAccess as a direct result of the Trump administration's crackdown on EDI and academic freedom. If we want research integrity, we need an independent academic publishing sector.

Shaimaa’s PhD will be funded by @sgsah.bsky.social (supervised by @hannahkateboast.bsky.social Will Tattersdill & me, in partnership with @commapress.bsky.social) - but she is currently trapped in Gaza unless the UK Gov relaxes its requirement for biometric data bsky.app/profile/comm...

🚨 Datavis Job Alert! 🚨

Permanent Senior Lectureship in Data Visualization.

Exciting opportunity to join us @ giCentre, London to teach & research #datavis including our £11m Centre for Doctoral Training in Visualization.

Feel free to DM for informal chat.

www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/about/jobs/a...

Yellow banner across the top with black text reading "Looking for a funded PhD in data visualization?" and smaller text reading "EPSRC Centre of Doctoral Training in Diversity in Data Visualization". Below this is a mosaic of around 100 different data visualizations in many colours and styles. Bellow that is another yellow banner with black text reading "Change what we can see. See what we can change". At the bottom is a QR code and associated URL pointing to https://diverse-cdt.ac.uk and the text 'Scan QR to apply'. To its right are three lines of text reading "DIVERSE-CDT offers fully funded 4-year PhDs in London or Warwick. One year of training and three years of internships, lab busts and study. Work as a cohort of PhD students for a career using data visualization". In the bottom right corner are three logos representing UKRI EPSRC, City St George's University of London, and Warwick University.

Last call for October 2025 entry to a fully funded 4-year PhD in #datavis 📊 with us at diverse-cdt.ac.uk (City St George's places).

Apply via diverse-cdt.ac.uk by 4pm 28th May.

We welcome applications from anyone with enthusiasm for #datavis.

Change what we can see. See what we can change.

A map of the UK, overlaid with a heat map that displays 'cold spots' where there is a lack of provision of social sciences and humanities higher education courses.

A map of the UK overlaid with colour coded circles that show the concentration of student numbers across different regions.

A line chart showing changes in student numbers over time.

Our map of cold spots in provision of humanities and social sciences courses and student numbers across the UK has been updated with the data for the 2023/24 academic year. Explore for yourself here: buff.ly/2x7yE5K

Railway Infrastructure and the Victorian Novel Cambridge Core - English Literature 1830-1900 - Railway Infrastructure and the Victorian Novel

Proofs are in! 'Railway Infrastructure and the Victorian Novel' should find its way into circulation later this year with CUP 👀🚂
Too many folk to thank here but those acknowledgements are full!
www.cambridge.org/core/books/r...

Beyond Breakdown: Enacting Infrastructural Life with Augustin Daly’s Under the Gaslight Alternation between mundane invisibility and spectacular foregrounding is a critical touchstone of infrastructural aesthetics. Infrastructure failures, which often mediate between these states, the...

New Publication: Jo Hofer-Robinson, @nicolakirkby.bsky.social, Adam O'Brien & I ask how engaging with narrative fiction – and following characters’ encounters with infrastructures – might help scholars to navigate infrastructural (in)visibility. Available OA at: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

It was such a pleasure collaborating on this, and I'm so grateful to you, Adam, and Jo for persevering with it while I was out of action.

DIVERSE CDT are hiring! Are you...?
✅ a Research Software Engineer 👩‍💻
✅ interested in Diversifying Data Visualization 📊
✅ looking for your next career step 👀
warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/appcentre... #datavis #softwareengineer #EPSRC

Please share this opportunity widely and please do send anyone curious (you? your students?) my way.

Led by an interdisciplinary team at City St George's and Warwick

Deadline: 28th March (4pm GMT), info @ diverse-cdt.ac.uk

Cohort-based training PhD to become a future leader in #DataVis.

Yellow banner across the top with black text reading "Looking for a funded PhD in data visualization?" and smaller text reading "EPSRC Centre of Doctoral Training in Diversity in Data Visualization". Below this is a mosaic of around 100 different data visualizations in many colours and styles. Bellow that is another yellow banner with black text reading "Change what we can see. See what we can change". At the bottom is a QR code and associated URL pointing to https://diverse-cdt.ac.uk and the text 'Scan QR to apply'. To its right are three lines of text reading "DIVERSE-CDT offers fully funded 4-year PhDs in London or Warwick. One year of training and three years of internships, lab busts and study. Work as a cohort of PhD students for a career using data visualization". In the bottom right corner are three logos representing UKRI EPSRC, City St George's University of London, and Warwick University.

More places available for fully funded 4-year PhDs in #datavis 📊 with us at diverse-cdt.ac.uk in London / Warwick.

We welcome applications from anyone with enthusiasm for #datavis. We aim to diversify approaches to datavis & the people who lead it.

Change what we can see. See what we can change.

The Duke of York is quite music-free and quite crusty, but perhaps not pokey enough.

Have you checked out the latest issue of @19birkbeck.bsky.social? A fav new issue dedicated to Nineteenth-Century Infrastructures guest-edited by Joanna Hofer-Robinson and @nicolakirkby.bsky.social

Read it here: 19.bbk.ac.uk/issue/915/in...

The first article in our latest issue is ‘Net-Work: Irish Sea Crossings with and beyond Infrastructure’. Claire Connolly & James L. Smith w/ Daniella Traynor discuss what the digital humanities can bring to the study of travel &sea crossings. Read here: 19.bbk.ac.uk

So proud of this issue! Thank you to our fantastic contributors - @claireconnolly.bsky.social James Smith, Danielle Traynor, Ruth Livesey, Caroline Sumpter, Karin Koehler, Alicia Barnes, Kameron Sanzo, and Susan Zieger.

Academic development: don't be afraid of asking difficult questions
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