Sophie Harman
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Universal truth that the most exciting moments in life happen on bad hair days. Feels so good to have my book in my hands 😍😍😍
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I've not said much on what's happening
@QMUL
as frankly it's upsetting.
21 days pay deducted. That includes 3 days of booked annual leave, time spent shortlisting for School & Faculty, Director of Research work, supervising MA diss & PhDs, public engagement, & research. Awful
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Proofs! So excited to see my name by the Virago apple I may go and get a tattoo (I am far too soft to do this). Published 4th July
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Academia usually common rejection, struggling to finish writing, endless emails, reviewer 2 issues & hoping to be recognised & then a whirlwind week comes along & all your years of hard work come together at the same time... and it feels f****** fantastic! Professor Sophie :)
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SICK OF IT to be published by the incredible
@ViragoBooks
on International Women's Day 2024
This book has been 20 years in the making.
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So be a good girl, work hard, keep quiet and don't complain, absorb the humiliation, and you'll be rewarded DECADES later?
Terrible message that women and girls have had to deal with FOREVER.
They didn’t picket or ask to be included. They worked at it for years, dealt with the humiliation of being on the sidelines of the sport, of being deemed not interesting or important enough, and last night they stormed on to the pitch.
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Scholars ignoring existing work of
#globalhealth
Politics when writing about COVID-19 was meh predictable...
But starting to see how this affects student understanding & learning makes me cross - it does students a disservice.
I created the following resources - use them! 1/5
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5yrs ago I wanted to make a film that showed the gender politics of Pandemics, told by women who face such politics everyday - Pili was the result. Thrilled it’s on
@Film4
TONIGHT!! (& yeah I’m quite happy with the blurb mistake 😉)
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Is this a deliberate performance piece from S to highlight the gender struggle
@clarewenham
??
“Mummy what's his name?”
Dr Clare Wenham, we understand your struggles of working from home and looking after children 😂
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For over a decade, consultants have been the bane of global health. Unsurprised that UK spent £56m to little end. What did McKinsey/Deloitte/PWC/Boston ever do for global health? (don't even Global Fund me as I've heard more complaints about the consultancy model than praise)
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Today Israel was elected to the Executive Board of
@WHO
By the WHO's own records there have been 872 attacks on healthcare in Palestine since 7/10 .
And 2 days after MSF published this
A new low for global health & WHO.
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This is not provocative, it is poorly researched, poorly argued, and dangerous.
Can’t believe a respected group as
@CHGlobalHealth
would publish this or lead with this as a deliberate headline
Protection for medical facilities is not absolute. It can be lost if protections are abused by basing a command post or logistic base within or near a hospital, writes
@LLillywhite
(
@CHGlobalHealth
).
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What on earth am I going to wear for my lecture on Thursday?!
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So you/your student wants to write a Politics/IR dissertation on
#COVID19
? Here's 10 Questions, suggested literatures, and methods to get you started.
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Pinching myself that I get to wear this stunning
@TheVampiresWife
creation. Huge thanks to Susie Cave & team for their generosity in making the dress & capturing Pili so well. This is why I wanted to wear it to
#BAFTAs
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Very excited to be giving this year’s Fred Halliday Lecture
#LSEHalliday
#LSEIRDept
The Fred Halliday Memorial Lecture will this year will be delivered by
@drsophieharman
, Professor of International Politics. Awarded the Joni Lovenduski Prize in 2018 and nominated for a
@BAFTA
in 2019 for her feature film Pili.
#LSEHalliday
@LSEIRDept
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Don’t think anything I do next will top the rollercoaster, impact, & pride I feel towards these two research babies.
Big Thanks
#AXARF
& hello new Philip Leverhulme Prize project...
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Coming soon.... 13 years after I published the first edition, much happen? Fully updated and rewritten with the brilliant
@a_papamichail
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In any normal world a day where you get a joint publication with the UN and a paper in Nature would feel pretty major as an academic. But today I celebrate this with... Appraisal Training because universities are still universities during pandemics.
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Near enough 5pm so I’m on holiday! Clearly going nowhere but the park but if I can move house, get married, have the best puppy of all time while working like mad during a pandemic, I think I can pull off turning 40 in style.
Be a love & sort vaccine & gender equity 4 my bday
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And no-one I asked can tell me if I am currently being paid for work such as sitting on interview panels this Monday.
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You can now pre-order my book! Add 'womenshealth' to get 20% off
Super topical this week as
@melindagates
makes a power move,
#birthtrauma
report published, & shenanigans with
@womeninGH
... all connected to global fight for women's health.
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Last wk a colleague suggested I have everything worked out & all peachy. Er no. Got a big grant rejection this week after months of intense hard work. All my projects have been rejected at some point. In words of philosopher Cardi B down 9 times but I get up 10.
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Realised I talk to my dog like a UN resolution...
Recalling squirrels are allowed in the park too
Emphasizing street chicken upsets your tummy
Recognizing the progress you made loose lead walking from yesterday
Stressing the need to not bark at the post
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I don't want thanks for my contribution to the REF as one of the impact case study leads. I just want to be paid the same as an average professor at my institution, as I don't think I'm below average.
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If the
#G7
or anyone is serious about ending covid19 we must stop relying on charity models.
COVAX is & always will be underfunded. It rests on a narrow manufacturing model. Any other fund will be the same.
The ONLY solution is sharing the IP
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I was just checking the script of the 2021 BBC Reith Lectures where I asked Mark Carney a question about care and noticed he is Dr Carney, Paul Krugman is Professor Krugman, and I am Ms Harman.
What gives
@BBCRadio4
? Insidious.
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Can't wait to see everyone baking nurses cakes and bringing hot tea to the pickets when nurses vote for strike action in the upcoming ballot.
Imagine social media will be full of the 60% public support 4 nurse strikes.. no 'what about if i get sick???' backlash to see here...
Maybe, rather than moaning about train driver's pay on twitter, you should do something to ensure nurses are far better paid?
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Reminder woman leader does not mean women friendly politics or policy
#LizTruss
#PrimeMinister
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Until September last year my friend only left her flat 3 times in 577 days.
When lockdown lifted, what happened to those who stayed inside?
My essay for
@TheLancet
on her being alone, my loneliness, and all the good in people that make it on the wall.
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Nothing compares to receiving the first copies of your book!! Huge thanks
@AXAResearchFund
for funding this project &
@McGillQueensUP
for publishing it!! I am so proud (& a bit scared) of this work
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Oh hello
@guardianfilm
Film Choice! Pili - the film I produced & co-wrote is on Film4 this week!! Watch it & tell your friends to do the same
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Heartening to see Kings and Birbeck leaders and union coming together to move forward… showing other other University of London colleges what can be possible
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I've been researching the gendered impacts of outbreaks for years and it never ceases to madden me - however much I read, learn, discover - how time and again women are just expected to mop everything up and then be grateful for any crumbs of help.
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One way to improve & understand the response to COVID19 would be for all global health folk to stop dancing around political/politicised/politics. ALL health (incl science & research) & the decisions all people make in the sector is political. Better to understand it than deny it
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Come for the unicorn: stay for all the vital research
@clarewenham
is doing on
#COVID
ー19 & gender (+ her forthcoming book which is fab)
We’ve decided on a shelf for the unicorn.
Thanks to all for kind words normalising the work-parent balance that so many are juggling amid
#covid19
chaos
@BBCNews
@haynesdeborah
Today Scarlett wants to be
#superheroelsa
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Spot the difference! My 1st teaching copy & new 9th edition
Dream to write the first ever chapter on Global Health for the ICONIC IR textbook
+ handy intro to global health politics for public health courses
Let me know what your students think!
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Wow. What does a woman have to do to get on the blue line?
This figure shows how ESRC funding (completed research grants, 2006-2018) is distributed by sub-discipline and gender in politics and IR.
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Morning reminder that no-one is getting back to normal anywhere until everyone in the world has the vaccine.
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And responses I don’t want to hear to this:
- get more women to apply
- mentor more women
- get women to apply for big money
These graphs are not the fault of women so start mentoring the funders not the researchers
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I've sent my new book to my editor!! 🥳Why are such major events in life are always so anti climatic?
I am now free for all the coffee/lunch/reviewer (no, not you) requests I've ignored over the last 6 months for a short window before I go on research leave & ignore you again
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The more I think about it, it seems blindingly obvious COVAX was set up to avoid any discussion on IP and TRIPs waivers for COVID vaccines.
Is COVAX part of problem not solution to
#PeoplesVaccine
?
Anyone working on this?
Thanks
@RoisinRead
for Q that led to this thought
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Happy
#IWD2019
to all the women who are handling their shit (and everyone else’s) without being given an inspirational badge.
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Thanks for all the
#BAFTA
love (will bring you all to the party with me). Still can't believe we took a small plan to get women living with HIV to tell their story & make people pay attention. Looks like they're paying attention now.
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Couple of months ago I made my Global Politics of Health reading list freely available. Misses the 23,000 papers published on COVID19, but a good start point if you're new to pandemics,
#globalhealth
, health security. Thanks for asking
@jeremyyoude
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Turns out you can move house during a pandemic and the busiest period of your (and partner’s) professional lives. We’re in and still friends. 🏠
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Marked end of covid measures by testing positive for covid last night. Feel pretty rough but given events in the world right now happy to be under a safe duvet.
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Ahh!! Finished a
#BISA2019
panel & saw my book for the first time!! Love MQUP - is your publisher working this hard for your book??
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Your face would also look this smug if you were Section Editor of this fantastic new journal. Can't wait to work alongside
@seyeabimbola
@paimadhu
@JuliaE_Robinson
@CKyobutungi
and the team!
Continuing our introduction of the amazing section editors we've been welcoming to our team...
Introducing the Global Health Governance section editors,
@seyeabimbola
&
@DrSophieHarman
(
@JuliaE_Robinson
@CKyobutungi
@paimadhu
)
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If you are a journalist covering
#monkeypox
pause before you start talking about trends in who has it. This is not 1981 and you are better than the Four Hs: early reporting of HIV/AIDS that still STILL has significant stigmatising impacts on people to this day.
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Dear Global Health Leaders,
Stop hiding behind charity models and speak up on tech and IP NOW
@paimadhu
is spot on but it’s not just world leaders. Global healthers with real clout MUST stop virtue signaling (see today’s
@guardian
) with charity models.
Dear World Leaders
It's time to get your act together & think beyond your own country!
Please collaborate, waive IP, manufacture in more countries & share vaccines.
WE MUST VACCINE THE *WHOLE WORLD* TO END THIS PANDEMIC
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Watched the No.10 press briefing & my professional opinion of years of studying the politics & governance of health emergencies: this is bad, bad, bad.
I'm off to my online Yoga class.
You 👏 cannot 👏 end 👏 a 👏 pandemic 👏 without
- local political support, reciprocity, & proper working partnership
- clear & effective communication
- Public Trust
#manchesterlockdown
#AndyBurnham
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OMG so the 4th July is the day my book Sick of It is published AND we may see an end of Tory rule?? I am going to have the mother of all house parties
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My rapid gender reading of UK government’s
#coronovirusuk
Strategy 1/9
Notably, no mention of differential impact of outbreak or secondary effects on women
@RosemaryJMorgan
@juliaheather
@DrSophieHarman
@DaviesSaraE
@DHSCgovuk
@CCriadoPerez
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Quick take on
#CovidVaccine
- Exciting! But...
- who gets it
- trust!
- don’t take foot off pedal on the basics (test & trace, isolation, behaviour change)
- time: Xmas still cancelled
- vaccine nationalism so last year... vaccine security is 2020
#notasilverbullet
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He tried to eat a hat, was useless when the gazebo threatened to blow away but Bruce finally made his
#DogsOnPickets
debut for
@qm_ucu
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Looking for answers on
#COVID19
#coronavirus
? My Global Politics of Health reading list (built up over 12 years of teaching this) is available for you to read, share, use. Thanks
@LalehKhalili
for making this happen (esp take 2 ;))
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If you read one thing about
#COVID19
or
#GlobalHealth
this year it should be this.
Get a cuppa and get reading and then demand better accountability (beyond 'internal review') of Gates, GAVI, Wellcome, and CEPI
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This morning I gave evidence to the Lords IR and Defence Committee on the
@WHO
I stressed the importance of collective security & response to a common threat in COVID19; reflected on US-China issues; DFID-FCO, and of course compliance and the IHR.
Tomorrow (17 July) we will hold a short inquiry on the World Health Organisation. Join us for two evidence sessions:
10am: Prof.
@DrSophieHarman
, Dr. Brian McCloskey
11am: Prof.
@devisridhar
, Prof. David Heymann,
@ObSisay
More details: ⬇️
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14 yrs ago this family took me into their home when I was researching my PhD in Kenya simply off the back of their sister being my Swahili teacher. PhDs leave so many debts: feeling nostalgic & hugely grateful to all the people who have helped me
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Solidarity with everyone on
#UCUstrike
strike today. I don't know anyone who can look at how UK universities treat staff and think this is ok.
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83 cases of sexual abuse in the Ebola response in Congo. 21 employees of
#WHO
My blood boils. Senior leadership knew 2 years ago & only now we have findings.
WHO l'ship must be held to account. Fear this is tip of iceberg.
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Panic? No. Plan and pump money into local authorities, welfare, and care? Absolutely. Me for
@ConversationUK
on
#coronavirus
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This week is an absolute reminder of why the IHR recommends NOT shutting borders during a health emergency. By the time you shut them, it’s 2 late; can stop needed supplies getting in & out of the country at risk; can lead to discrimination; & encourages political tit 4 tat
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British and shocked about Roe v Wade and thinking about what you can do? 1/10
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A glimmer of good on a heavy inbox day… found out Pili has made £3723.55 royalties for the women in the film. 6yrs later & I can finally transfer some cash to Tz. Thanks to everyone for (continuously!) supporting the film 💜
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@GaskarthJamie
Reviewer rant, editors diversify who you know who does global health politics. I get multiple requests every week, try to do as many as I can but cannot do them all.
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Date for your diary!
@DaviesSaraE
&
@clarewenham
will be giving the
@cgd_leeds
@CGSCLeeds
Annual Lecture, hosted by the brilliant Emma Louise Anderson
‘Gender Fail During Global Health Emergencies: WHO Runs the World?’
– Prof Sara Davies & Dr Clare Wenham
12-2pm Wed 28th Oct.
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Researcher looking into African vaccine manufacturing or woman cos-playing politician with front bench ambitions?
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Thanks to everyone who came along & all of the organisers of my Fred Halliday Lecture
@LSEIRDept
last night. It was such an honour to do it. In the words of Shawn Carter, you could have been anywhere in the world, but you were there with me & I appreciate that
My first public lecture in years and it doesn’t disappoint. smashing it as always
@DrSophieHarman
at
@LSEIRDept
Fred Halliday lecture
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Yep. 4 books, articles galore, 1 film, + 12 yrs teaching global health politics + oral & written evidence to UK govt on COVID19 + BBC Women Expert = 3 media requests.
Get the deal, but extremely frustrating when you see half the crap commentary on COVID19.
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I'm pretty chuffed I got this under 15mins as I could genuinely listen to
@SimuChigudu
ALL DAY
The fab Dr Simukai Chigudu talking
#COVID
ー19 and Africa for
@MileEndInst
#coronavirus
#covid19africa
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In all the photos I’ve seen on
#VaccineDay
in the UK the vaccinators have been women. Unsurprising given women make up majority of healthcare workforce in world.
Essential reminder that success of
#COVID19Vaccine
roll out depends on women’s labour.
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My film Pili is out on DVD today!! You can buy from HMV, Amazon & select indies
There will also be 3 screenings this week to celebrate the DVD release at LSE (weds) LSHTM (thurs) & Sussex (fri)
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It’s been a year around here but then you get notes like this & remember what is brilliant about this place. Awesome students (who were a joy to teach)
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In the midst of all the sadness and loss in London right now, today my Age UK friend left the house for the first time since February to get the vaccine in my uni office building.
Small joys.
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Don't wait for charity: do it yourself.
Bravo to everyone involved in this.
Now to prove the manufacturing haters wrong (which they will).
#CovidVaccine
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Global vaccine equity demands reparative justice — not charity
Can't say this enough!! Will keep saying this until world gets real about vaccines.
With
@Real_Ironist
@ErfaniParsa
@jasonhickel
@michellemorse
@tisaneg
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You too? Despite the fab
@devisridhar
&
@clarewenham
I've seen hardly any female experts in the news (& I know a lot of experts on global health politics, pandemics, and security, none of whom are shy), & lots of male commentators with 0 skin in the game.
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It really makes my day when all the men on a new website are Professor X but I’m demoted to Dr Harman.
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Writing my final report for the
@LeverhulmeTrust
and I cannot stress enough that if you have the opportunity to submit an application to the Philip Leverhulme Prize DO IT. And if you are lucky enough to get it, wow... it has been a total gift.
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Received review request to return in 7 days.
I know editors are catching up before they go on leave, & for some the few days between end of term & leave is time to clear backlog.
BUT 7 days at xmas is some shithousery. Those that can need to end the COVID work pace. Hurts all
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The fab
#disorderofthings
is hosting a Symposium on my new book
#SeeingPolitics
(& hello theme of
#eisapec19
) Kicking off with everyone’s fave feminist twitter ally & WPS tour de force
@drljshepherd
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Astonishing that this is the 1st time the world’s greatest authority on militarisation come to KCL. Big up
@amandachisholm5
&
@mghacademic
for organising the Enloe event tonight - feel recharged and inspired!
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You may have soho house membership or be able to get a guaranteed friday night table at Fanelli's, but do you have an ex-student in IT support who loved your lectures and keen to sort out your problems asap?
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I’m going to put this here so I don’t weasel my way out of this.
Next week will be my last ISA until locations change so all colleagues and ace researchers working in international studies can attend.
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What I want from
#WHA74
- end to this new pandemic treaty (total distraction)
- serious talk about COVAX. The charity model does not work. Share tech, IP & knowledge, learn from successful community immunisation campaigns. Use Covax funds to facilitate in states that need help.
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Published today!
@UN_Women
Spotlight on
#COVID19
#gender
and the
#SDGs
Essential resource on gender and health emergencies + 10 recommendations as to what to do
Privilege to work with
@AntraBhatt
@AzconaGinette
@DaviesSaraE
@juliaheather
@clarewenham
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I’ve taught global politics of health since 2008 and STILL get butterflies for the 1st lecture. Will the tech work (probably not but will handle it)? Have I still got it? Will anyone show up? Exciting!
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Reminder that behind every academic is a stack of unwrapped periodicals (this LRB seized fresh from the post nemesis)
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