Jim Scown
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🧐 all things soil 💩🪱🦠✨ Lecturer in Environmental Humanities @HaSSCornwall Advisor @FFC_Commission 🌾 New Generation Thinker @BBCFreeThinking 📻
Joined November 2017
A real pleasure to talk with @vronsta and Lara Choksey about all these earthy, imperial matters for the Sarah Parker Remond Centre Podcast. Listen below 👇
🎧New podcast alert!🎧 Dr Lara Choksey in conversation with @vronsta Ware & @JimScown A conversation about the histories that connect soil to colonialism and imperialism, and why these connections matter for agricultural production now and in the future. https://t.co/mbM0C4lGmM
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Great to see @RuthHeholt's and @JoanPassey's books on this list! Congratulations! Cornwall appears to be very well represented here--a sentence I don't think I've ever uttered in any other context!
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How we grow, make & eat food isn’t working for everyday people anymore. We hear five expert perspectives on why food is so important for climate, nature & health, now and for the next generation📽️ @RosieBoycott @Rob_Percival_ @DoctorChrisVT @timgbenton #TheFoodConversation
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My latest opinion piece in @cpm_magazine Nature Natters: No Nature, No Farmers, No Food.
cpm-magazine.co.uk
During the past few weeks I've spent a lot of time on trains travelling to different parts of the country for meetings and conferences...
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Job alert! 2 positions @UniOulu: Post-doc, and PhD student (both 3y) in our @KoneenSaatio funded project "In the shadow of carbon", on #regenag regenerative farming & #carbonfarming knowledge politics and practice. Deadline 4th April, see https://t.co/EOEcCUID08 , please rtweet
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📢This Week! 🫠 webinar with me & @AriannaGi Weds 13th March, 5pm. How identities shape UK politics, and how can we engage today’s students more effectively.🇬🇧 Join Us! @SAGEPublishers 🤩 @HaSSCornwall ⬇️ https://t.co/XmKqQFcVhI
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Our department manager @MarkRossPlummer talks about how working at the @UniExeCornwall Penryn Campus has impacted his life, career, and relationship with his home. Read the article here: https://t.co/4mJV2fwIlp
@UniofExeterESI @UniOfExeterHASS @ICornishStudies
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Developing and running the MA in Environmental Humanities @UoBrisCEH has been such a rewarding experience. Watch the students explain why this course matters below @UoBArtsMatter @BristolUni #envhum
https://t.co/xLPzQ39qkH
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HaSS Cornwall’s @JoanieWillett, co-director of @ICornishStudies, talks about her academic journey and Cornish research as part of the Penryn Perspectives project, celebrating @UniExeCornwall’s 20th anniversary. @UniOfExeterHASS @UniofExeterESI
'People like me so rarely get a chance to build a career like this. But having the University here in Cornwall ... I feel I have been incredibly lucky,' read about Dr Joanie Willett's academic journey and Cornish research: https://t.co/we4RuSneyy
@JoanieWillett @ICornishStudies
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Keslowena to Dr @kensabroadhurst on passing her viva today. Wonderful news and richly deserved @UniOfExeterHASS @UniExeCornwall @ExeterDoctoral
Keslowena to our newest Cornish Studies Dr!! @kensabroadhurst passed her viva today with minor corrections. Kensa's PhD was funded by the @Heritage_Trust is a story of power and class in the language revival and is of interest to minority language survival globally @HaSSCornwall
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HaSS Cornwall's @fhpitts shares his perspectives on the importance of the Penryn Campus as part of the celebrations of University of Exeter being based in Cornwall for 20 years. https://t.co/hZNDGmH1Xw
@UniExeCornwall @UniOfExeterHASS @exeterpolitics
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“I can honestly say that without this campus, my life would be very different, and I would not be doing what I am doing now.” Dr Harry Pitts Dr Harry Pitts is a Senior Lecturer
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In the Climate Emergency module, Cornwall-based #History and Environmental #Humanities students explore the cultures, histories, and politics of environmental and climate change, drawing on fieldtrips in the unique Cornish landscape. Find out more here: https://t.co/yxKUa7oPky
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History in Cornwall brings historical focus to a range of challenges facing societies today to give students understanding of the power the past has in shaping the present and how we think about the future. https://t.co/yxKUa7oPky
@UniExeCornwall @UniOfExeterHASS
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👏🙌✍️📜Best of luck to the @Riverford team, who have their #GetFairAboutFarming petition debated today in parliament after over 100k people signed it. Our CEO Helen Browning said "This debate has the potential to be a real turning point for the future of British farmers and
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Delighted today to co-facilitate the Cumbria Land and Nature Skills Service (LANSS) Steering Group #skills #nature #farming #woodland #careers We are recruiting our Service manager - do join the team @SteveTrotter1 @lakesauctioneer @ruslandvalley @CumbriaUni @ernestcooktrust
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Reams of secret poetry by pioneering British scientist finally come to light - article published! @Ri_Science @davynotebooks @lancaster_words
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Sir Humphry Davy’s unpublished verse – including one published below for the first time – was found in notebooks alongside details of his groundbreaking experiments
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Absolutely kicking myself that the VPFA first monograph prize deadline is the 30th Dec! I thought it was January! If anyone by any chance has read or reviewed Cornish Gothic and would be willing to write down less than 300 words about it please let me know!
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