Isabel Sykes
@IOJ_Sykes
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@TECHNEDTP PhD candidate at @Bruneluni. Current research in class, domestic labour, and social media. She/Her. Find me on https://t.co/l1Vs0Xi8Jf
West Yorkshire
Joined May 2022
I am gradually transitioning away from this app and schlepping over to a different platform. You can find me at '🦋.
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RT @BrunelUCU: .@BrunelUCU joining the #StopTheCuts rally & parliamentary lobby to make the case for Brunel students and staff https://t.co….
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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 👇. Job cuts, course cuts, real term pay cuts. ONE in TWO universities cutting jobs or announcing redundancies. We need urgent government intervention to #FundHENow.
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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 🤟
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The Console-ing Passions 2025 conference is an international conference on television, video, audio, new media, and feminism.
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Link to our latest Technecast episode featuring guests studying PhDs in music from different genres and perspectives - plus some cracking song recommendations
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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
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New Technecast episode on the practice of interviewing in academic research - listen below on Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts ✨️
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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
The Connected Sociologies Curriculum Project provides resources to support students and teachers interested in 'decolonising' curricula.
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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:
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Dear Students, Alumni, Industry Partners, Local Businesses, Professional / Statutory / Regulatory Bodies, and all who support education, We reach out to you at a critical time. Brunel University is...
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RT @GdnUniversities: Young working-class people being ‘blocked’ from creative industries, study finds
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Sutton Trust calls for improved access to creative education and industry dominated by upper middle-class
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RT @BrunelUCU: @BrunelUCU #BrunelFightsBack Leaflet for Students + Open Letter:. @brunelstudents @ucu @uculondon @….
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RT @reproutopia: Our bodies, their choice, as Dayna Tortorici said in 2022. The fights against "parental rights," compulsory cissexuality &….
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RT @EJCS_Journal: From ‘girlboss’ to #stayathomegirlfriend: @IOJ_Sykes (@bruneluni) argues that the romanticisation of domesticity on @tikt….
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RT @BrunelUCU: @Bruneluni in the Hillingdon Herald - 130 FT academic positions at risk of redundancy @BrunelUCU. @johnmcdonnellMP @UCU @tim….
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RT @BrunelUCU: @BrunelUCU Statement on Redundancies ⚠️ . @UCU @UCULondon @LondonUCU @ucu_solidarity.
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Staff at Brunel University London received an email from the VC on the 24th of October introducing plans for a “significant academic resizing programme”, claiming that current financial pressures...
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RT @Alex_Niven: Thank goodness we still have an extremely clever centrist elite dominating the cultural/political establishment & publishin….
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RT @DanielleCSands: This is the final year of PhD recruitment for the Techne Doctoral Training Partnership. Each year, we fund 55-60 arts a….
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RT @johnharris1969: Right then. I think we've reached a watershed point in the waging of culture wars, and Conservatives ought to see it, a….
theguardian.com
The Tory leadership hopeful paints a picture of special treatment. As the father of an autistic child, I can tell you that’s a lie, says Guardian columnist John Harris
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I've also never read such a relatable portrayal of the shaming Oxbridge interview, having also sweatily read Renaissance poetry aloud in a Cambridge interview as a prospective undergrad in 2015. .
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