Mike Ward

Recovering Academic

[Mike Ward @mrmwardphd]

What a year it has been, the CoronaDiaries online digital collection is now live! More of the 750 submissions will be added over the coming weeks! A physical archive will also be created at the Richard Burton Archives
@SwanseaUni @SwanUniArchives https://t.co/lKNDgflCj5

[Mike Ward @mrmwardphd]

Four years have flown by, the book is almost done...almost ;)

[Sophie 🏠 #BringBackNeighbours @WelshNeighbours]

Seriously, is Colton’s clown trousers and shoes combo considered fashion nowadays?

#Neighbours
#SaveNeighbours

[UCU @ucu]

🚨A MUST WATCH🚨

“Incompetence at the very top of Dundee University”

@dundeeuni principal Shane O’Neill gets grilled for trying make over 600 staff pay the price for his mismanagement👇

[Cardiff UCU✊🌱 @CardiffUCU]

Apparently humanities and social sciences are "crucial" in New Zealand but ready for the scrap heap here in Wales 🤔

[Nick Knudsen 🇺🇸 @NickKnudsenUS]

Hey Trump voters.

Hate to break it to you - but here’s what actually happened on Tuesday.

Watch. Bernie explained it 20 years ago.

[Spring-Nuts @SpringNuts_]

Belfast…You’re Next!! 🎸🎷🙌🏻

@springsteen #SpringsteenTour2024 #Springsteen #estreetband

[Lisa Mckenzie @redrumlisa]

I worked in a factory for 12 years I clocked in & when I clocked out there was such a sense of freedom knowing work has done, Fridays were brilliant. Since working in Higher Education I have never felt that freedom on leaving work. Because you never leave work.

[Mike Ward @mrmwardphd]

@gsoh31 Nice piece, more-or-less says it all about why I left academia!

[Dr Anna Krzywoszynska @Anna_K_speaking]

This fact about UK academia may surprise you!
I wonder if others feel the same way: UK academia is weirdly ani-intellectual. I had a good academic career in UK, and left 2 years ago, ended up, happily, in Finland . I did all my degrees in the UK, and got to SL. And yet....

[Mike Ward @mrmwardphd]

Seems people aged faster back in the day on Ramsey St, another classic episode of @neighbours with Jim advising Helen on her love triangle [she's in love with her daughter's fiance] & comforting Lucy over her drowned dog Basil, how is he only aged 40?!Looks at least 50!

[Mike Ward @mrmwardphd]

@neighbours Number 28

[Mike Ward @mrmwardphd]

Another observation on classic vs new @neighbours, no more secretaries! Helen predicts to Madge [who was her secretary at one time for Home James!] that a computer might one day take her job, even Paul Robinson does his own admin these days!

[Mike Ward @mrmwardphd]

@davidabbottbris This is some of the reasons why I gave it up and left H.E :-)

[Dr Finn Mackay at least cats 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @Finn_Mackay]

Ooh look, there's my book on the shelf in Waterstones #Bristol @Waterstones262 now signed if anyone wants a signed copy for yourself or to gift a friend!

[Mike Ward @mrmwardphd]

@thesociologyguy @neighbours No chance! Although, I bet if Max Ramsey had held onto the house [although did he/Maria ever sell it to Madge?] he could sell up at a huge profit and move into the new combined retirement complex/high school[!],another sign of changing demographics in the area

[Mike Ward @mrmwardphd]

Been watching classic and new episodes of @neighbours ,struck by how gentrified Ramsey Street has become since the 80s,now we have lawyers, doctors [two], headteachers [two] living there, where are the mechanics,plumbers,ground workers? Shows high cost of living in Erinsborough?