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Posts by Michele Underwood & @saadiagardezi.bsky.social
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Posts by Michele Underwood & @saadiagardezi.bsky.social
https://warwick.ac.uk/services/dc/pgr/
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Today I learned that in Siena, Italy, they decorate PhDs with garlands and ribbons and I think they should be adopted worldwide
September 22, 2026 at 5:04 PM
Today I learned that in Siena, Italy, they decorate PhDs with garlands and ribbons and I think they should be adopted worldwide
Learner autonomy is often mistaken for simply giving learners more freedom. In educational theory, it means something much more specific.
Henri Holec defined it as "the ability to take charge of one's own learning." 🧵
Henri Holec defined it as "the ability to take charge of one's own learning." 🧵
September 22, 2026 at 9:37 PM
Learner autonomy is often mistaken for simply giving learners more freedom. In educational theory, it means something much more specific.
Henri Holec defined it as "the ability to take charge of one's own learning." 🧵
Henri Holec defined it as "the ability to take charge of one's own learning." 🧵
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Explaining research is a skill—not just a necessity.
Whether you're talking to colleagues, family or policymakers, adapting your message matters.
Credits: errantscience.com
#ResearchCommunication #PhDLife #AcademicSky
Whether you're talking to colleagues, family or policymakers, adapting your message matters.
Credits: errantscience.com
#ResearchCommunication #PhDLife #AcademicSky
September 19, 2026 at 11:54 PM
Explaining research is a skill—not just a necessity.
Whether you're talking to colleagues, family or policymakers, adapting your message matters.
Credits: errantscience.com
#ResearchCommunication #PhDLife #AcademicSky
Whether you're talking to colleagues, family or policymakers, adapting your message matters.
Credits: errantscience.com
#ResearchCommunication #PhDLife #AcademicSky
Explaining research is a skill—not just a necessity.
Whether you're talking to colleagues, family or policymakers, adapting your message matters.
Credits: errantscience.com
#ResearchCommunication #PhDLife #AcademicSky
Whether you're talking to colleagues, family or policymakers, adapting your message matters.
Credits: errantscience.com
#ResearchCommunication #PhDLife #AcademicSky
September 19, 2026 at 11:54 PM
Explaining research is a skill—not just a necessity.
Whether you're talking to colleagues, family or policymakers, adapting your message matters.
Credits: errantscience.com
#ResearchCommunication #PhDLife #AcademicSky
Whether you're talking to colleagues, family or policymakers, adapting your message matters.
Credits: errantscience.com
#ResearchCommunication #PhDLife #AcademicSky
My colleague VickyPannossian posted that this stage of her PhD was like the 'repotting of a plant'.
I love this thought that to grow/ nurture, we need a new pot but we will be taking our earth ( life, knowledge, friends), into our new surroundings to develop further🌼 Note: water your plants #PhDSky
I love this thought that to grow/ nurture, we need a new pot but we will be taking our earth ( life, knowledge, friends), into our new surroundings to develop further🌼 Note: water your plants #PhDSky
Smiling Potted Plant Drawing
ALT: Smiling Potted Plant Drawing
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September 17, 2026 at 2:04 PM
My colleague VickyPannossian posted that this stage of her PhD was like the 'repotting of a plant'.
I love this thought that to grow/ nurture, we need a new pot but we will be taking our earth ( life, knowledge, friends), into our new surroundings to develop further🌼 Note: water your plants #PhDSky
I love this thought that to grow/ nurture, we need a new pot but we will be taking our earth ( life, knowledge, friends), into our new surroundings to develop further🌼 Note: water your plants #PhDSky
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Delighted to launch Arts Council-funded creative writing workshops for late-diagnosed neurodivergent adults. Online and in person, with pay-what-you-can places and bursaries available.
No experience needed.
More info: helenkara.com/2026/06/02/r...
#CreativeWriting #Neurodivergent #ArtsCouncil
No experience needed.
More info: helenkara.com/2026/06/02/r...
#CreativeWriting #Neurodivergent #ArtsCouncil
Reclaiming Space For Neurodivergent Creativity
I am delighted to announce that I have been awarded funding from the Arts Council to work with Kate Fox to offer (deep breath) creative writing opportunities for late-diagnosed neurodivergent adult…
helenkara.com
June 2, 2026 at 9:31 AM
Delighted to launch Arts Council-funded creative writing workshops for late-diagnosed neurodivergent adults. Online and in person, with pay-what-you-can places and bursaries available.
No experience needed.
More info: helenkara.com/2026/06/02/r...
#CreativeWriting #Neurodivergent #ArtsCouncil
No experience needed.
More info: helenkara.com/2026/06/02/r...
#CreativeWriting #Neurodivergent #ArtsCouncil
Yup- a bit of promotion of our wonderful Warwick PGRs work at the Festival of Postgraduate Research on June 15th in the Oculus. Going to be amazing 👻 Book here Warwick Colleagues your.warwick.ac.uk/form/PGRFest...
Are You Ready? Festival Ravers
ALT: Are You Ready? Festival Ravers
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May 21, 2026 at 1:20 PM
Yup- a bit of promotion of our wonderful Warwick PGRs work at the Festival of Postgraduate Research on June 15th in the Oculus. Going to be amazing 👻 Book here Warwick Colleagues your.warwick.ac.uk/form/PGRFest...
Some excellent thoughts- we need to discuss this more
I'm really looking forward to this meeting on Failure in Science at Imperial College tomorrow. It's a topic we don't talk about enough.
www.imperial.ac.uk/events/20415...
www.imperial.ac.uk/events/20415...
Failure in Science: A Conference
The Good Science Project welcomes you to its third research culture conference, themed on the issue of ‘failure in science’. The conference is a collaboration between Imperial’s Office of the Vice-Pro...
www.imperial.ac.uk
April 17, 2026 at 11:11 AM
Some excellent thoughts- we need to discuss this more
Your chance to support some valuable research whilst looking at beautiful pictures of forests - have a 5 minute visual break @biodiful.bsky.social
🌳 Do you want to contribute to research on how humans perceive forests? Take this quick, anonymous 10-min survey 🌲
👉 www.biodiful.org#/forest
This will help us explore how people experience forest biodiversity!
Please share on 🦋 & tag @biodiful.bsky.social to reach more participants 🙏💚
🌐🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁🧪
🌳 Do you want to contribute to research on how humans perceive forests? Take this quick, anonymous 10-min survey 🌲
👉 www.biodiful.org#/forest
This will help us explore how people experience forest biodiversity!
Please share on 🦋 & tag @biodiful.bsky.social to reach more participants 🙏💚
🌐🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁🧪
April 2, 2026 at 9:20 AM
Your chance to support some valuable research whilst looking at beautiful pictures of forests - have a 5 minute visual break @biodiful.bsky.social
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Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
#Pinks #ProudBlue
February 5, 2026 at 11:50 AM
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
#Pinks #ProudBlue
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slow day in the office so figured we'd start some beef with museums
December 19, 2025 at 11:30 AM
slow day in the office so figured we'd start some beef with museums
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This year, @annayahprosser.bsky.social, Tamarinde Haven, Nicki Lisa Cole, and I have tried to envision the ideal, utopian future for open qualitative research.
We've had community workshops, talks, a charter, grant apps, a special issue, all to build "Qualitopia" for 2026✨ qualitopia.my.canva.site
We've had community workshops, talks, a charter, grant apps, a special issue, all to build "Qualitopia" for 2026✨ qualitopia.my.canva.site
December 18, 2025 at 11:15 AM
This year, @annayahprosser.bsky.social, Tamarinde Haven, Nicki Lisa Cole, and I have tried to envision the ideal, utopian future for open qualitative research.
We've had community workshops, talks, a charter, grant apps, a special issue, all to build "Qualitopia" for 2026✨ qualitopia.my.canva.site
We've had community workshops, talks, a charter, grant apps, a special issue, all to build "Qualitopia" for 2026✨ qualitopia.my.canva.site
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New climate change campaign #Adapt2Win launched by elite athletes around the world in the run up to COP30 calling for climate adaptation investment.
Fantastic to see climate action from athletes including several from the UK - Beth Mead, Keira Walsh, Laura Crane, Raheem Sterling.
www.adapt2win.org
Fantastic to see climate action from athletes including several from the UK - Beth Mead, Keira Walsh, Laura Crane, Raheem Sterling.
www.adapt2win.org
October 28, 2025 at 3:51 PM
New climate change campaign #Adapt2Win launched by elite athletes around the world in the run up to COP30 calling for climate adaptation investment.
Fantastic to see climate action from athletes including several from the UK - Beth Mead, Keira Walsh, Laura Crane, Raheem Sterling.
www.adapt2win.org
Fantastic to see climate action from athletes including several from the UK - Beth Mead, Keira Walsh, Laura Crane, Raheem Sterling.
www.adapt2win.org
I keep thinking about this song : Frog Chorus #NoKings www.bing.com/videos/river...
Frog Chorus McCartney - Search VideosVideos
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October 20, 2025 at 9:54 AM
I keep thinking about this song : Frog Chorus #NoKings www.bing.com/videos/river...
Take a deserved break and enjoy the beauty of music & talent
Indie Aut. Stuart Miller📖✍️🤓 Believe in yourself & your potential
@stuartmiller1.bsky.social
· Sep 2
Video credit: itsjuliencohen
Description: "11 and 8-year-old prodigy sisters played Vivaldi Winter with me"
This is serious musical talent 🎻🎻🎹🎶🎵
#VivaldiWinter #Song #music #Piano #Violin #Instruments #Instrumental
Description: "11 and 8-year-old prodigy sisters played Vivaldi Winter with me"
This is serious musical talent 🎻🎻🎹🎶🎵
#VivaldiWinter #Song #music #Piano #Violin #Instruments #Instrumental
September 2, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Take a deserved break and enjoy the beauty of music & talent
What does the start of a new academic year feel for you? Excited -exhausted already- anticipation- sick of updating documents. teaching materials and websites? Or like me - STILL forgetting to drink my tea...#PhDSky #AcademicSky #Teaching #TeaDrinkersOfTheWorldUnite
a cartoon drawing of a tea rex in a cup of tea
Alt: a cartoon drawing of a tea rex in a cup of tea
media.tenor.com
September 2, 2025 at 2:53 PM
What does the start of a new academic year feel for you? Excited -exhausted already- anticipation- sick of updating documents. teaching materials and websites? Or like me - STILL forgetting to drink my tea...#PhDSky #AcademicSky #Teaching #TeaDrinkersOfTheWorldUnite
Will Someone PLEASE remind me to drink my tea!!
kermit the frog holds a cup of lipton tea
Alt: kermit the frog holds a cup of lipton tea
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August 19, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Will Someone PLEASE remind me to drink my tea!!
This hasn't dated
'The survival of humanities researchers is a political act in itself'
'The survival of humanities researchers is a political act in itself'
Best comment ever from CHEF Doctoral Ed Conference
'The survival of humanities researchers is a political act in itself'
(Skov.S & , Bengsten,S & Barbara Grant)
#AcademicSky #PhDSky
'The survival of humanities researchers is a political act in itself'
(Skov.S & , Bengsten,S & Barbara Grant)
#AcademicSky #PhDSky
July 29, 2025 at 11:29 AM
This hasn't dated
'The survival of humanities researchers is a political act in itself'
'The survival of humanities researchers is a political act in itself'
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Off piste from Researcher Development - but I have a Monday mystery (which I do not have a solution to - so there is not going to be a grand reveal Poirot Style).
It's the mystery of the moving stones - a thread...
On Thursday evening my partner & I went out for 90 mins, I topped up 2 water bowls...
It's the mystery of the moving stones - a thread...
On Thursday evening my partner & I went out for 90 mins, I topped up 2 water bowls...
July 21, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Off piste from Researcher Development - but I have a Monday mystery (which I do not have a solution to - so there is not going to be a grand reveal Poirot Style).
It's the mystery of the moving stones - a thread...
On Thursday evening my partner & I went out for 90 mins, I topped up 2 water bowls...
It's the mystery of the moving stones - a thread...
On Thursday evening my partner & I went out for 90 mins, I topped up 2 water bowls...
Thank you for this !!
#ResearchResources:
Lots of great free resources for researchers & research students. Thesis planners, goal setting tools, agendas, To-Do lists. Completely customisible and free. No login, no catches. Just download & use. From: buff.ly/2L0YISj #PhDchat #ECRchat #postdoc
Lots of great free resources for researchers & research students. Thesis planners, goal setting tools, agendas, To-Do lists. Completely customisible and free. No login, no catches. Just download & use. From: buff.ly/2L0YISj #PhDchat #ECRchat #postdoc
June 20, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Thank you for this !!
I'm sure I'm not the only person who has had to process hate responses in an anonymous survey - my latest 'is to justify more administrators IT MUST STOP LEAVE US ALONE WE HATE YOU'
What techniques can we suggest for managing unprovoked anonymous rage? #PhDSky #AcademicSky
What techniques can we suggest for managing unprovoked anonymous rage? #PhDSky #AcademicSky
June 20, 2025 at 10:08 AM
I'm sure I'm not the only person who has had to process hate responses in an anonymous survey - my latest 'is to justify more administrators IT MUST STOP LEAVE US ALONE WE HATE YOU'
What techniques can we suggest for managing unprovoked anonymous rage? #PhDSky #AcademicSky
What techniques can we suggest for managing unprovoked anonymous rage? #PhDSky #AcademicSky
Sharing my thoughts and experience of Meddling with Purpose -Reimagining Researcher Development
#PhDSky #Academia #REDSConference #DEAR
redsconference.co.uk/2025/05/19/m...
#PhDSky #Academia #REDSConference #DEAR
redsconference.co.uk/2025/05/19/m...
Meddling with purpose: reimagining researcher development
Michele Underwood, Researcher Development Manager, University of Warwick In 2017, I stepped into a new Researcher Developer role at a new university (new to me, at least). Unlike my previous roles,…
redsconference.co.uk
May 21, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Sharing my thoughts and experience of Meddling with Purpose -Reimagining Researcher Development
#PhDSky #Academia #REDSConference #DEAR
redsconference.co.uk/2025/05/19/m...
#PhDSky #Academia #REDSConference #DEAR
redsconference.co.uk/2025/05/19/m...
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It’s an absolute honour to be teaming up with Helen Sword for this FREE WriteSPACE event about my book Writing Creatively for Work Or Study with a lively 1hr conversation plus a hands-on writing workshop.
Join us to explore creative academic writing: www.helensword.com/register-wri...
Join us to explore creative academic writing: www.helensword.com/register-wri...
Register - Writing Creatively for Work & Study — Helen Sword
Register to join this WriteSPACE Special Event, when International writing expert Helen Sword will be joined by Helen Kara, author of (most recently) Writing Creatively for Work or Study: Easy Techniq...
www.helensword.com
May 21, 2025 at 7:00 AM
It’s an absolute honour to be teaming up with Helen Sword for this FREE WriteSPACE event about my book Writing Creatively for Work Or Study with a lively 1hr conversation plus a hands-on writing workshop.
Join us to explore creative academic writing: www.helensword.com/register-wri...
Join us to explore creative academic writing: www.helensword.com/register-wri...