@TECHNEDTP PhD candidate at @Bruneluni. Current research in class, domestic labour, and social media. She/Her. Find me on isabel-sykes.bsky.social
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15 Nov 2024
I am gradually transitioning away from this app and schlepping over to a different platform. You can find me at 'isabel-sykes.bsky.social'🦋
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18 Mar 2025
.@BrunelUCU joining the #StopTheCuts rally & parliamentary lobby to make the case for Brunel students and staff
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14 Mar 2025
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.
Higher education is on its knees. We must #STOPtheCUTS ✂️
Sign the petition 👇
stopthecutspetition.org.uk/
Job cuts, course cuts, real term pay cuts.
ONE in TWO universities cutting jobs or announcing redundancies.
We need urgent government intervention to #FundHENow.
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12 Mar 2025
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 🤟 fmt.gsu.edu/console-ing-pass…
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7 Mar 2025
Link to our latest Technecast episode featuring guests studying PhDs in music from different genres and perspectives - plus some cracking song recommendations open.spotify.com/episode/3jQ…
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5 Jan 2025
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 open.spotify.com/episode/6xv…
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17 Dec 2024
New Technecast episode on the practice of interviewing in academic research - listen below on Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts ✨️open.spotify.com/episode/7m4…
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28 Nov 2024
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: thesociologicalreview.org/pr…
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20 Nov 2024
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: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
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13 Nov 2024
Young working-class people being ‘blocked’ from creative industries, study finds dlvr.it/TG8LLJ
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11 Nov 2024
@BrunelUCU #BrunelFightsBack Leaflet for Students Open Letter:
brunel.web.ucu.org.uk/brunel…
@brunelstudents @ucu @uculondon @londonucu @hheraldnews @johnmcdonnellMP @ucu_solidarity
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Isabel Sykes retweeted
9 Nov 2024
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.
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The slogan of Roe was, “My body, my choice.” The subtext of Dobbs is, “Your body, my choice.”
nplusonemag.com/issue-43/the…
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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.
doi.org/10.1177/136754942412… #TikTok
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@Bruneluni in the Hillingdon Herald - 130 FT academic positions at risk of redundancy @BrunelUCU
@johnmcdonnellMP @UCU @timeshighered @bbceducation @BBCLondonNews @UCULondon @LondonUCU @brunelstudents @bianhaan @hheraldnews
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25 Oct 2024
@BrunelUCU Statement on Redundancies ⚠️
brunel.web.ucu.org.uk/brunel…
@UCU @UCULondon @LondonUCU @ucu_solidarity
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Isabel Sykes retweeted
6 Nov 2024
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
4 Nov 2024
Kamala Harris will win comfortably, because:
• Biden’s admin has been solid
• Trump’s lost ground since 2016
• The young Black male votes which Trump needs didn’t turn out in 16, 18, 20, or 22
• Young women like Kamala vote
✴️Ignore polls—they’re herding, after past misses
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29 Oct 2024
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
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14 Oct 2024
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
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18 Oct 2024
Just read @littler_jo 's brilliant autosociobiographical piece on care and the university. Her reflections on being from a 'mixed class' background really resonated with me and I'm sure will with others used to feeling uncomfy in academic spaces: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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18 Oct 2024
I've also never read such a relatable portrayal of the shaming Oxbridge interview, having also sweatily read Renaissance poetry aloud in a Cambridge interview as a prospective undergrad in 2015...
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