Isabel Sykes

@TECHNEDTP PhD candidate at @Bruneluni. Current research in class, domestic labour, and social media. She/Her. Find me on

[Isabel Sykes @IOJ_Sykes]

I am gradually transitioning away from this app and schlepping over to a different platform. You can find me at 'https://t.co/WuXp1BgEox'🦋

[Brunel UCU #nocompulsoryredundancies @BrunelUCU]

.@BrunelUCU joining the #StopTheCuts rally & parliamentary lobby to make the case for Brunel students and staff

[Isabel Sykes @IOJ_Sykes]

@BrunelUCU

[Isabel Sykes @IOJ_Sykes]

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.

[UCU @ucu]

Higher education is on its knees. We must #STOPtheCUTS ✂️

Sign the petition 👇
https://t.co/jb4agTB3sl

Job cuts, course cuts, real term pay cuts.

ONE in TWO universities cutting jobs or announcing redundancies.

We need urgent government intervention to #FundHENow.

[Isabel Sykes @IOJ_Sykes]

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 🤟 https://t.co/kcF2j2Jj7V

[Isabel Sykes @IOJ_Sykes]

Link to our latest Technecast episode featuring guests studying PhDs in music from different genres and perspectives - plus some cracking song recommendations https://t.co/61Ijg2TZrZ

[Isabel Sykes @IOJ_Sykes]

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 https://t.co/jYl2chEZbB

[Isabel Sykes @IOJ_Sykes]

New Technecast episode on the practice of interviewing in academic research - listen below on Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts ✨️https://t.co/AkZPJcWNSE

[Isabel Sykes @IOJ_Sykes]

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: https://t.co/53YBj6OlXk

[Isabel Sykes @IOJ_Sykes]

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: https://t.co/UPB4eD2fqK

[Guardian Universities @GdnUniversities]

Young working-class people being ‘blocked’ from creative industries, study finds https://t.co/NJQpuI2avI

[Brunel UCU #nocompulsoryredundancies @BrunelUCU]

@BrunelUCU #BrunelFightsBack Leaflet for Students + Open Letter:

https://t.co/9vpqY2Q6aP

@brunelstudents @ucu @uculondon @londonucu @hheraldnews @johnmcdonnellMP @ucu_solidarity

[Sophie Lewis @reproutopia]

Our bodies, their choice, as Dayna Tortorici said in 2022. The fights against "parental rights," compulsory cissexuality & forced birth are one fight: against the patriarchal privatization of social reproduction, the gendering of labor, within the familial household, for capital.

[European Journal of Cultural Studies (EJCS) @EJCS_Journal]

From ‘girlboss’ to #stayathomegirlfriend: @IOJ_Sykes (@bruneluni) argues that the romanticisation of domesticity on @tiktok_us ultimately serves to exacerbate the societal disavowal of social reproduction labour under neoliberal capitalism.

https://t.co/1Mv5XrfIfO #TikTok

[Isabel Sykes @IOJ_Sykes]

@JessRauchberg 100% agree! I've been thinking about these themes too and have just written about the 'stay-at-home girlfriend' TikTok trend, how it can be seen as a backlash to postfeminist 'girlboss' culture, and some of the wider ramifications of this. ✨https://t.co/koSbDQZSG4

[Brunel UCU #nocompulsoryredundancies @BrunelUCU]

@Bruneluni in the Hillingdon Herald - 130 FT academic positions at risk of redundancy @BrunelUCU

@johnmcdonnellMP @UCU @timeshighered @bbceducation @BBCLondonNews @UCULondon @LondonUCU @brunelstudents @bianhaan @hheraldnews

[Brunel UCU #nocompulsoryredundancies @BrunelUCU]

@BrunelUCU Statement on Redundancies ⚠️

https://t.co/Asoegz4AwS

@UCU @UCULondon @LondonUCU @ucu_solidarity

[Alex Niven @Alex_Niven]

Thank goodness we still have an extremely clever centrist elite dominating the cultural/political establishment & publishing, feeding us regular nuggets of wisdom, telling us which way the wind will blow

[Dr. Danielle Sands @DanielleCSands]

This is the final year of PhD recruitment for the Techne Doctoral Training Partnership. Each year, we fund 55-60 arts and humanities studentships (including home fees and maintenance grant) at universities in London and the SE. Find out how to apply here @TECHNEDTP

[John Harris @johnharris1969]

Right then. I think we've reached a watershed point in the waging of culture wars, and Conservatives ought to see it, and act on it. I wrote this today: What kind of person would drag autistic children into the culture wars? The Kemi Badenoch kind
https://t.co/HRZJP2xw8c