@TECHNEDTP PhD candidate at @Bruneluni. Current research in class, domestic labour, and social media. She/Her. Find me on https://xitter.cf/t.co/l1Vs0Xi8Jf
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Joined May 2022
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I am gradually transitioning away from this app and schlepping over to a different platform. You can find me at 'isabel-sykes.bsky.social'🦋
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.@BrunelUCU joining the #StopTheCuts rally & parliamentary lobby to make the case for Brunel students and staff
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.
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-pass…
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/3jQ… – at Todmorden, England
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/6xv… – at Todmorden, England
New Technecast episode on the practice of interviewing in academic research - listen below on Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts ✨️open.spotify.com/episode/7m4… – at Todmorden, England
It's been a pleasure to work on the @TheSocReview Connected Sociologies Curriculum Project as the Lesson Plan Coordinator this year. These are free, open access resources for students and teachers interested in decolonising curricula: thesociologicalreview.org/pr…
My university has announced plans to make significant cuts to academic and professional services staff. Please consider supporting #BrunelFightsBack by signing @BrunelUCU's open letter opposing these redundancies: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
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Young working-class people being ‘blocked’ from creative industries, study finds dlvr.it/TG8LLJ
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@BrunelUCU #BrunelFightsBack Leaflet for Students + Open Letter:
brunel.web.ucu.org.uk/brunel…
@brunelstudents @ucu @uculondon @londonucu @hheraldnews @johnmcdonnellMP @ucu_solidarity
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Our bodies, their choice, as Dayna Tortorici said in 2022. The fights against "parental rights," compulsory cissexuality & forced birth are one fight: against the patriarchal privatization of social reproduction, the gendering of labor, within the familial household, for capital.
The slogan of Roe was, “My body, my choice.” The subtext of Dobbs is, “Your body, my choice.”
nplusonemag.com/issue-43/the…
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From ‘girlboss’ to #stayathomegirlfriend: @IOJ_Sykes (@bruneluni) argues that the romanticisation of domesticity on @tiktok_us ultimately serves to exacerbate the societal disavowal of social reproduction labour under neoliberal capitalism.
doi.org/10.1177/136754942412… #TikTok
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@Bruneluni in the Hillingdon Herald - 130 FT academic positions at risk of redundancy @BrunelUCU
@johnmcdonnellMP @UCU @timeshighered @bbceducation @BBCLondonNews @UCULondon @LondonUCU @brunelstudents @bianhaan @hheraldnews
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@BrunelUCU Statement on Redundancies ⚠️
brunel.web.ucu.org.uk/brunel…
@UCU @UCULondon @LondonUCU @ucu_solidarity
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Thank goodness we still have an extremely clever centrist elite dominating the cultural/political establishment & publishing, feeding us regular nuggets of wisdom, telling us which way the wind will blow
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This is the final year of PhD recruitment for the Techne Doctoral Training Partnership. Each year, we fund 55-60 arts and humanities studentships (including home fees and maintenance grant) at universities in London and the SE. Find out how to apply here @TECHNEDTP
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Right then. I think we've reached a watershed point in the waging of culture wars, and Conservatives ought to see it, and act on it. I wrote this today: What kind of person would drag autistic children into the culture wars? The Kemi Badenoch kind
theguardian.com/commentisfre…
Just read @littler_jo 's brilliant autosociobiographical piece on care and the university. Her reflections on being from a 'mixed class' background really resonated with me and I'm sure will with others used to feeling uncomfy in academic spaces: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…