Matthew Fluck

Senior Lecturer in International Relations, @PIRWestminster @CSDWestminster. IR theory, Critical Theory, transparency. Own views.

[Matthew Fluck @MattFluck]

Interested in utopia and IR? Join me and @DRMcCarthy1 in July for our workshop at @europeanisa #EWIS2023 in Amsterdam. We’re interested in papers on utopias reactionary, radical, theoretical, fictional, historical and more. Give us a shout, or see CfP here https://t.co/OzpmqrncpF

[WestminsterPolitics&InternationalRelations @PIRWestminster]

🚨Event @CSDWestminster: Democracy's Tryst with Indigenous Rights: Factionalism or Self Determination?

Speakers: Crispin Bates, Ruby Hembrom, Ipshita Basu and Radha D'Souza.

📅21st October 2024
⏰5-7pm
📍 Fyvie Hall, University of Westminster

Sign up: https://t.co/khN7fpkAzI

[Jan Eijking @Jan_Eijking]

I build on work in the history of internationalism and int'l orgs, including @EmilSeidenfaden's recent book on the League's Information Section. Thanks to the journal, anonymous reviewers, & @MattFluck @DRMcCarthy1 who convened an EISA workshop where I first presented this. 5/5

[Matthew Fluck @MattFluck]

@Jan_Eijking @EmilSeidenfaden @DRMcCarthy1 Great to see this published. Congrats Jan!

[Daniel R. McCarthy @DRMcCarthy1]

Article on nuclear infrastructure, ANT, Gramsci, and state formation out now open access with @RISjnl
https://t.co/OEB8mW0ayU

#IRtheory #infrastructure

[Taj Ali @Taj_Ali1]

Edinburgh students chanting "pay your workers" at their graduation in solidarity with @ucu staff engaged in industrial action.

[Queen Mary UCU @qm_ucu]

Hey @Keir_Starmer! Is this week really the week that you want to side with the Vice Chancellors against staff who have had no other choice but to take very difficult industrial action?

[UCU @ucu]

We’re at @UniWestminster today to call on employers to end the pay deductions

Stop attacking staff. Save graduations. Settle the dispute

#ucuRISING @ucuwestminster

[Simon Rushton @SimonRushton8]

As of today, for the next three weeks, I am ‘locked out’ by my employer, on zero pay, for participating in @UCU’s Marking and Assessment Boycott.
A short thread on why I am participating. 1/6

[UCU @ucu]

"We have staff now at the University of Leeds, this world-class institution, using food banks"

Our members at @leedsucu told ITV News why they've been forced to strike

Leeds management refused to even give an interview

#ucuRISING

[Matthew Fluck @MattFluck]

👇Yep. I get why we worry about relevance, but am baffled by how often discussions completely ignore our teaching. This goes for all the agonising over the supposed abstractness of critical theory too.

[Daniel R. McCarthy @DRMcCarthy1]

@APhillipsIntRel Does teaching literally thousands of students International Relations count as being engaged beyond the ivory tower??

[UCU Westminster @UCUwestminster]

#studentvoices
#ucuRISING

[UCU Westminster @UCUwestminster]

The voices of our students at @UniWestminster on how our management are treating both students and staff in our dispute
#studentvoices
#ucuRISING

[UCU @ucu]

🗣CALLING ALL STUDENTS🗣

You can use our online template to write to your VC telling them to urge @UCEA1 to re-negotiate and end the disruptions

✍️ https://t.co/AdIPMcTdCo

#ucuRISING | #SettleTheDispute

[Alen @cisn_t]

Solidarity with our striking teachers 🤝🏽

Ironic that this university 'promotes' equality, diversity and inclusion, yet our hardworking profs are constantly undervalued + threatened.

Their working conditions matter just as much as our grades do.

#educationoverprofit

[UCU Westminster @UCUwestminster]

A marking and assessment boycott explainer for our students @WestminsterSU (with grateful thanks and solidarity to @ucuatqub for the original!)
#ucuRISING

[Professor Rhiannon Turner @rhiannon_turner]

Staff @QUBPsych protesting at being silenced, by being refused entry to the exam board that they co-constitute @ucuatqub Apparently differences of opinion constitutes ‘conflict of interest’ and will not be tolerated. Very disappointing, @QUBelfast

[Lisa Tilley @Tilley101]

Why are some UK universities leaving their staff with £0 at the end of the month in a cost of living crisis? And what does this mean for other sectors? A quick recap 🧵 1/

[Priyamvada Gopal © @PriyamvadaGopal]

Students across the country should know that academics are on full alert and standby, ready to mark exams & get the marks in so you can graduate. Only UCEA's short-sighted ideological obstinacy stands in the way. Nothing else.