I wanted to write this blogpost because I have recently been thinking about my own visa situation and how difficult it is to remain in the UK despite having been here for five years (but having zero years towards indefinite leave to remain). I have spent four years in the…

While there has been more critique of the Body Mass Index (BMI) metric (weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared) in recent years, it is still widely used by healthcare professionals and Western media. While I am certainly not the first person to be pointing this out, the…

The topic I have chosen for this blogpost is not particularly new but is perhaps more relevant than ever with the increasing violence and discrimination directed at queer people both within in the UK and around the world. What I want to discuss is the problem of pride. As someone…

I wanted to write this blogpost to discuss how the concept of academic freedom is used by the Right to claim that any right-wing views (no matter how violent or harmful) should be given airtime while simultaneously silencing any views which are threatening to the status quo. …

This month, I wanted to write a short blogpost on the marking and assessment boycott currently taking place across many higher education institutions in the UK, particularly in terms of discussions around what the purpose of universities are. Academics participating in the boycott have posted extensively on twitter about punitive…

As I was racking my brain for topics for this month’s blogpost, I started to think about the recent decision by Labour leader Keir Starmer to prevent Jeremy Corbyn from standing for Labour in the next General Election for his constituency of Islington North in London. And this action made…

There has recently been a discussion on Academic Twitter about positionality statements spurred by research that claim positionality statements are not useful and promote bias. I thought this would be a good topic to bring up because the importance of positionality and reflexivity is something not merely important within academic…

I want to write this month’s blogpost about the creation of “cop city” nearby Atlanta. Cop city is a part of the continued militarization of police forces in the US who are then deployed against communities of colour to maintain the status quo of neoliberal capitalism and white supremacy through…

I wanted to write this short end of year blogpost about a topic not covered very well within the British mainstream press. It is perhaps unsurprising considering that the British press is largely supportive of right-wing policies and ideas. This topic is none other than the Brexit Freedoms Bill, which…