A UK network for PGRs & ECAs working across languages 💬🌏
This account is managed by the SIG co-chairs:
@oliviaglaze.bsky.social
@llewelynhopwood.bsky.social
Learn more about the SIG here: https://shorturl.at/QJlxU
UCFL Early Career Academics Special Interest Group
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The UCFL ECA SIG is looking for new reps! We have openings in German, Italian, Linguistics, Portuguese, and Middle Eastern Studies. Details below, and the application deadline is 15 December. Get in touch with the SIG co-chairs @oliviaglaze.bsky.social & @llewelynhopwood.bsky.social with questions 🥳
Happy to share that my piece - 'Languages, Medical Humanities and Policy: Intersections in Research and Practice’ - is out today on @the-polyphony.bsky.social as part of this week's @readingbodies.bsky.social takeover! thepolyphony.org/2025/10/21/l...
In Part 2 of the Reading Bodies takeover, Olivia Glaze considers the policy and impact potential of research on languages, identity and culture within the medical humanities.
thepolyphony.org
UCFL Early Career Academics Special Interest Group
Olivia Glaze
📣 VACANCY (language learning, Celtic Studies)
Research fellowship investigating language learning in Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and Ireland
A post that is part of the exciting £1.5Million AHRC-funded Translating Cultures of Language Learning (TransCoLL) project.
tinyurl.com/3xc9eb54
The project is based at the universities of Stirling, Cardiff, Dublin City and Queen’s Belfast.
The current role is only advertised for @stir.ac.uk, with three further roles at Cardiff, @dublincityuni.bsky.social and @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social to follow soon.
@ysgolygymraegpc.bsky.social
UCFL Early Career Academics Special Interest Group
UCFL Early Career Academics Special Interest Group
The University Council for Languages (UCFL) welcomes the publication of the Curriculum and Assessment Review and the Government’s response.
Read our reflection here: university-council-for-languages.org/2025/11/07/a...
UCFL Early Career Academics Special Interest Group
Please do sign up to join in our online conversation event on 21st November, 12 noon, about the recent report on language education in the UK from the @hepi-news.bsky.social by @meganlbowler.bsky.social, sponsored by #Duolingo Thanks to @ilcs.bsky.social
for hosting ilcs.sas.ac.uk/research-pol...
You might have heard that the University of Nottingham plans to suspend all languages courses. This is very disappointing and heartbreaking.
Here you can find their petition aimed at protecting Modern Languages at Nottingham. You can show your support by signing it.
www.change.org/p/stop-the-r...
Our new podcast by ECRs, for ECRs is here. Tune in as researchers share their academia survival tips.
The first episodes of Confessions of an Early Career Researcher are available now. Subscribe for our final episodes, going live 15 October. https://bit.ly/47PXZQH
UCFL - University Council For Languages
UCFL - University Council For Languages
Emma Cayley 谷曦
Every university should renovate the disciplinary framework of its courses and ask whether it is responding to its global responsibilities. But no university should recognise any merit in withdrawing from the study of other languages, cultures & societies
www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/late...
Emma Cayley 谷曦
The British Academy
Stop the removal of Modern Languages courses at the University of Nottingham!
Bringing together researchers to discuss issues of major concern and to ensure joined-up action for the future development of the study of languages and cultures.
