Fletch Williams

Development Specialist Officer working on humanitarian issues @IrelandForeign
Ex @irishmissionun Advisor
Feminist
Dyslexic Irish learner
All views mine🏳️‍🌈

[Fletch Williams @FFletchWilliams]

It's finally ready to share - an essay prep sheet I've drafted to help dyslexic students structure and write university level essays.

Please do take a look, and let me know your thoughts!

(DM me if you'd like to be able to comment on the doc.)
https://t.co/GFxw02kq4R

[Irish Aid @Irish_Aid]

Today at #COP28, Minister @CarrollJennifer pledged €5 million from Ireland to the Central Emergency Response Fund Climate Action Account in 2024. The climate crisis is a humanitarian crisis, and Ireland fully supports CERF in responding to this reality @OCHA

[Fletch Williams @FFletchWilliams]

Huge congratulations to @earlymodernjohn for his achievement! Extremely proud partner over here, unfortunately a little difficult to get our toddler to pronounce though.

[The Leverhulme Trust @LeverhulmeTrust]

Congratulations to the 2023 Philip Leverhulme Prize Winners! Thirty extraordinary researchers from Biological Sciences, History, Law, Mathematics and Statistics, Philosophy and Theology, and Sociology and Social Policy: https://t.co/RgajmUpUhS

[Irish Aid @Irish_Aid]

Just over one week left to apply to work as a Development Specialist Officer with Irish Aid.

More details here 👉https://t.co/WRd5hL28yV

#jobfairy

[Fletch Williams @FFletchWilliams]

Obviously my love for @BirkbeckUoL has grown all the more. If you even get the chance to study there, do - especially if they don’t make their excellent staff redundant.

[Fletch Williams @FFletchWilliams]

Absolutely despicable decision by @durham_uni - already with a rep as being a uni for posh students they’ve clearly abandoned any notion that mobility within academia is a good thing. The arts & humanities in Durham were the lead depts as well. I’m ashamed to be an alum.

[Palatinate @PalatinateUK]

Starting in the next academic year, the Durham Doctoral Scheme, a funding scheme for Doctoral students, will only be available for candidates in the Science faculty. https://t.co/rfim0dtaPY

[Martin Clark @m_clark5]

I'm also on the lookout for PhD/Research students working on international law, public law, legal theory and legal history :) - lots of great colleagues and RHD students to work with @latrobelaw

[Fletch Williams @FFletchWilliams]

For a bunch of (in fairness good!) reasons I have just no idea when the next opportunity we will have to go away together will be. Highly unlikely it will be this year. It’s been some year and I think it’s just hit us both how much we needed this.

[David Kenny @dkennytcd]

Come work @TCDLawSchool! 3 posts to start September—one permanent in Public International Law, and two term posts in International Human Rights & Intellectual Property. RTs appreciated! If anyone applying would like to chat informally, please reach out! https://t.co/J5xGRiKjLs

[Fletch Williams @FFletchWilliams]

@earlymodernjohn Always available for work required photos of all kinds / doing the lord’s work

[Fletch Williams @FFletchWilliams]

@earlymodernjohn 🎃🎃🎃

[Fletch Williams @FFletchWilliams]

So proud of @earlymodernjohn for his piece in the LRB. With a strong spooky streak, this lead to some very fun dinner conversations. Perhaps a little someone’s first words will be “werewolf trials”….

[London Review of Books @LRB]

Thiess depicted Hell as a place not far from his own parish, on land owned by the elite, where the Devil hoarded produce stolen from the peasantry: this is Satan as a landlord.

@earlymodernjohn on what a 17th-century werewolf tells us about microhistory:

https://t.co/Z11Hf86kTz

[Fletch Williams @FFletchWilliams]

First week back from parental leave and it’s been a real honour to draft this statement calling for an end to the war in Ukraine for @SoroptiTweet - 46 other organisations have endorsed already!
https://t.co/umzjQzBH0s

[Fletch Williams @FFletchWilliams]

@Katherine_McDon Totally agree, this annoys me a lot particularly having dyslexia as spelling indicating sounds is notoriously nonsense in English. But even if it was a transparent language people need to just learn to be polite when they’re not familiar with a name.

[Fletch Williams @FFletchWilliams]

The number of people who hear our baby’s name and cannot disguise the “these sounds do not compute” look on their faces is pretty terrible.

[Fletch Williams @FFletchWilliams]

@lrbobrien I shit you not….
But she also said “imagine he’ll grow up to see William and Kate on the throne” so I think she may have some other issues. 🤷🏻‍♀️

[Fletch Williams @FFletchWilliams]

One lady literally said “well it’s not as bad as calling your baby apple or lion or some of these other names you get these days” and I honestly do not think she realised how incredibly rude she was being, along with a lot of other things.