The UCL Language, Inequality and Politics Society (LIPS) strives to bring people together to foster conversations about language, inequality and politics.
London, England
Joined November 2019
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Here is the cover of my new book! Out in ppbk in April and published by @RoutledgeLing routledge.com/Global-English… @UCLAppliedLing @IOE_London @UCL_Global @UCL – at Ealing, London
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Student survey but - hear me out - ask them to rate senior managements handling of semester one and Covid.
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New book! ‘Education and the Discourse of Global Neoliberalism’, edited by John Gray, John O’Regan and Catherine Wallace uclappliedlinguistics.wordpr…
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At the beginning of every grad seminar, I suggest a few reading strategies for the social sciences:
Before picking up a text, learn something about the author & where this piece fits into their broader body of work to get a sense of key stakes, themes, & trajectories [1/9]
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Brilliant event today - thanks once again to the inspiring speakers and to those who helped organise! This is just the beginning. Looking forward to the next one ;)
Buzzed after the @LipsUcl Research and Activism workshop. Some really powerful interventions and an important bringing together of meaningful conversations - excited to see what will come of this coming together @esolgirl @KatyHighet @b_yilmaz04 @MingdanW @LigaliOrg
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SS23 goes online. Many of you will have received our letter with this information by now. We are disappointed but we feel we all need certainty to plan our work. Brief message on our website ss23hk.com/. More news to follow in due course.
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Now that aspiring anti-racist academics are learning they should cite BIPOC scholars, especially women, please note it’s not just WHO you cite but HOW you cite—are BIPOC authors regarded as theorists or just case studies demonstrating the validity of white theorists’ concepts? – at Los Angeles, CA
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If your proposed response to “systemic” or “institutional” discrimination focuses on modifying individual behaviors, then you do not understand the meaning of systemic or institutional – at Los Angeles, CA
Language is part of the machinery of oppression – just look at how black deaths are described | Patricia Williams theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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I want to take some time to make use of my professional training as a linguistic anthropologist and explain WHY this is such a good headline. 1/
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This is astonishing. Hot on heels of Newsnight comes this. The government is now literally using our money to *pay* the Daily Mail to publish pro-government propaganda pieces about how well it is handling COVID-19.
‘Sponsored by The UK Government’
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Hello Twitter! We are the Manchester Anti-Precarity Network, campaigning against precarious employment at the University of Manchester and in Higher Education everywhere. Please follow, join, and support us in any way you can. A better university is possible. #WeAreTheUniversity
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Since it's Linguistic Opinion Week™: What commonly held misconception about language most needs to be quashed?
Possibly different question: Is there any misconception about language you can't resist correcting whenever you encounter it (at the expense of social awkwardness)? – at Philadelphia, PA
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Trying to get proper thinking work done while the future of your sector shifts like quicksand, your friends are losing their jobs, and the design of your workload and position expectations are uncertain... hard.
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Linguists - I'm trying to track down any current work on MLE/MUBE/UBE (whatever people are choosing to call it) in UK areas outside London. If you know of anything in progress (including PhD/MA and undergrad student work) please can you let me know? Thanks very much 👍🏽😊🙏🏽
