Professor Katy Shaw
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Director @ahrcpress Creative Communities. Prof @northumbriauni . Ted Talker. FRSA. Devolution & Culture. AB @BritishArts Chair Med Hums @wellcometrust Views:own
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Amazing day doing my Ted Talk at
@TedxSoho
watching inspirational speakers &
@michaelsheen
talk about our
#WritingChance
programme & creative diversity in my new
@ahrcpress
Creative Communities programme ❤️
@TEDTalks
@tedxlondon
#tedxsoho
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For the ‘juniors’ losing 4 days pay & the consultants losing leave & swapping roles to cover patient safety ❤️
@TheBMA
strike is a fight faced by all key workers who power this country
It’s a battle for what we really value as a society & our vision for a future nation 🇬🇧
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@TracyBrabin
If I had a quid for every time someone had commented on what I wore rather than what I said... 🙄 This rarely happens to men - calling it out is the only way to educate 👊🏻
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You don’t: but having the *choice* of where to go and what to study should not be a preserve of the privileged 🗳️
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He campaigns all week, has the lowest expenses of any MP, & takes the night bus home:
@CorbynForLeader
#JezWeCan
http://t.co/cRXomSKeUT
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A new dawn 🏃♀️☀️ ⚽️
#Newcastle
waits, looking up to the cathedral on the hill, with hope ❤️
#NUFC
#NUFCTakeover
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He campaigns all week, has the lowest expenses of any MP, and takes the night bus home:
@jeremycorbyn
@Corbyn4Leader
http://t.co/QJlGHihTjQ
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I have 2 tickets for NYE with
@michaelsheen
at
@theCentre
Monday night and I can’t go - can anyone use them? 🏴
Happy to email on …
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ALL postgrad teaching bursaries have just been WIPED by this government for Arts, English & Humanities subjects - without consultation 🤔
@EnglishAssoc
@EngMediaCentre
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London: 9.30am meetings are exclusionary for anyone traveling from the North 💩 even a 4am start for the first train (& most expensive) gets you in for 8.40am now. If it turns up. Until infrastructure improves we need to stop assuming everyone will keep coming to the capital 🤷🏼♀️
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DUP: 'our friends'
* anti-abortion
* anti-climate-change
* anti-Lgtbq rights
No one voted for that!
#GE2017
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Here's an idea: if you already have a GP shortage, maybe don't go pissing off all current and prospective GPs?
#NHSCrisis
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#CelebrityBigBrother
is ‘celebrating the anniversary of women’s suffrage and political emancipation’...by locking eight women in a house.
Despair.
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NEWS!
Delighted to be joining
@ahrcpress
as Director of Creative Communities 👍🏻
Professor Katy Shaw has been appointed as Programme Director for Creative Communities. Learn more about Katy -
@profkatyshaw
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Reading this in Gateshead where the average life expectancy is 74… 😬
UK state pension age will soon need to rise to 71, say experts
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SO PROUD
#AWritingChance
❤️ 🏴
The biggest thanks to
@michaelsheen
@NewWritingNorth
@NorthumbriaUni
@jrf_uk
@DailyMirror
@NewStatesman
for making this Programme happen!
If you’re a company who wants to support future work - get in touch! 👍🏻
Tonight I got to meet all of the wonderful
#AWritingChance
writers and our champion
@michaelsheen
and see their work read and recorded by an amazing cast of actors at a special event with
@BBCWales
. We've waited a long time to meet & it was a very special night ❤️🏴🏴🏴
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MUST WATCH TODAY:
this is THE poem about lockdown that we’ll be teaching in ten years time ❤️
Covid-19 has divided us – whether stuck indoors, working day & night, furloughed, sick or caring. Our experiences are as diverse as we are.
In ‘The Sum of Us’, Tony Walsh
@LongfellaPoet
launches a call for radical unity. Watch here
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The Power of a Humanities Degree:
5yrs on English grads ‘are making equivalent money to people from a STEM discipline. The things humanities & arts develop are things that corporations want in their employees.’
#Clearing2023
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Green Party candidate in
#StocktonSouth
tells electorate to vote
#Labour
- progressive alliance in action to
#blockatory
#GE2017
@paulwms
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@richardosman
Bigger q is why they have never introduced a dark chocolate Bounty, the best of all the bounties… 🤔
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The next time someone asks me about the value of culture and heritage I’m going to point them to the nationwide emotional fall out from this image: our past, present & future felled in a week of net zero rollbacks & short term tactics.
The North is in mourning 😢
Iconic tree at 'Sycamore Gap' comes down overnight - clear cut could suggest act of vandalism on major heritage site
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NEWSFLASH: we’ve been open the entire time & will be open in sept 👍🏻
@BBCNews
correct your headlines, they’re misleading to students & the general public who we’ve continued to serve through teaching, research & PPE production since March 🤷🏼♀️
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A Writing Chance is profiling some brilliant authors, issues of access & representation at the first ever
@ClassFestival
today 💪🏻
Good morning
#Bristol
! We’re here 👋🏻
@NewWritingNorth
@michaelsheen
@jrf_uk
@NewStatesman
@NorthumbriaUni
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ACADEMICS: mobilise the student vote this Thursday. Email, social media and campus encouragement to get to the polling station
#GE2017
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Reluctant to put clocks back Sunday: who needs an extra hour of 2020 🤷🏼♀️
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The
#Conservatives
showing up in the North East is like someone defecating on your driveway then inviting themselves in for dinner
#GE2017
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Detectorists: Why a metal-detecting show became a global hit - simply the best slow culture & the ideal Boxing Day watch - a new feature length episode ❤️ 📺
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ESSENTIAL VIEWING ALERT 🚨
The brilliant
@Kathbum
lands
#TheDuchess
on
@NetflixUK
today!
The only woman who can redeem this bin fire of a year!
Pure talent - binge sesh ahoy 🥳
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Relocating jobs to the regions is not the same as creating a sustainable skill set in the North for people who live here. We welcome new jobs - but investment is needed to ensure
#LevellingUp
doesn’t just mean more officials in first class on the east coast main line 🤔
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Shame on the gov for attacking a soft target rather than the actual problem - their intention to privatise our
#NHS
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Whole world: we need creative grads!
UK Gov: limit creative grad numbers!
🤦🏼♀️
There’s nothing ‘low value’ about a sector that’s growing at 1.5 x the rate of the rest of the economy 💰
Policy to make creativity the preserve of the privileged must be 🛑
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Starting a new role today as Director of Cultural Partnerships working with city greats
@balticgateshead
@NewWritingNorth
@LiveTheatre
@tynesidecinema
& more. There has never been a more challenging time for culture, or a more vital time for showcasing its value 👍
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Even better than the first novel? Yup!
Early bet for Xmas best seller 2021 😄
@richardosman
@MeadOlivia
👏🏻 📚
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Academic management less successful at recognising and rewarding female senior leaders...might be another headline🤔
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Blair pops up again, but forgets the true message of Alice In Wonderland...
#Corbyn
#JezWeCan
http://t.co/iKvf1y0SZj
http://t.co/xEk5JNUmSV
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Theresa May confirms Data Communications Bill will goahead now LibDems are gone - this is Snoopers Charter. Welcome to next 5 years
#GE2015
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Murder, Marriage & Making A Killing
Join your Pointless friend
@richardosman
& me in conversation
THIS Saturday 10th Oct 7pm online at
@durhambookfest
Register now for a FREE place!
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Why I also won’t be at the launch of the report by the commission I sit on today 🤦🏼♀️ the North can not do business without better infrastructure
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FULLY FUNDED PhD IN ENGLISH/CREATIVE WRITING: DEADLINE 16 JULY!
Work with me,
@NorthEnglishes
and
@NewWritingNorth
to examine the role of literature, culture and the arts in building cultural capital in young people. More details here:
Please share and RT!
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Reminder:
#Trump
comments are vile but Theresa May's silence is equally damning for the UK 👇🏻
#Charlottesville
Theresa May or whoever is running this Govt: if you don't condemn Trump's support for white supremacists NOW why did our fathers fight WW2?
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NEWS:
@NorthumbriaUni
and
@BFI
announce new national 3yr partnership to create talent pipelines, skills and experience with moving image culture and the screen industries for staff and students
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There is nothing about this story that doesn’t scream ITV comedy drama 👍🏻
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Im proud to be a commissioner on
A NEW BRITAIN: the
@GordonBrown
commission report that launches today 🇬🇧
In 2021
@Keir_Starmer
tasked us with creating proposals for the biggest ever transfer of power from Westminster to the British people 💪🏻
#ANewBritain
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The John Lewis ‘off to university’ range includes student essentials like champagne flutes, a nespresso machine & designer bedding...times have changed! 😂
#Freshers2019
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🌟 Top 20 Books of 2020 🌟 📚
Day 1 is my Book of the Year 🎁
Thursday Murder Club
Four senior sleuths embark on a very British Murder mystery - essential cross-generational crime reading for all the family
#Bookvent
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Today
@jeremycorbyn
follows Craig David at
#Glastonbury
Yes you read that correctly
Welcome to 2017
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Today. Tomorrow. Forever: solidarity with our junior doctors 💪🏻
Claps don’t pay mortgages or student loans.
Few understand the pressures, logistics or personal impact of training.
We have to incentivise our talent to stay in 🇬🇧 🌈
#JuniorDoctorsStrike
@TheBMA
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‘The standard of leaders in the this country these last few years has been poor - Gareth Southgate is truthful and hardworking, that’s what we need more of’ - nicely said
@GNev2
👏🏻 ⚽️
#ItsComingHome
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As I freeze in
#Newcastle
waiting for a 4.5hr train to London on a Sunday (because:engineering works) for a 9am Monday meeting - because there’s no train to get you into London before 8.45am now, & that’s if they’re on time/turn up) - I don’t feel very leveled up or equitable 🤔
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WE WON
#THEAwards
Uni of the Year! 🥳
So proud to be part of Team
@NorthumbriaUni
- changing lives & levelling up the region 💪🏻 👩🏼🎓
Massive congrats to our staff, students & exec
@tgplawson
@ACLong68
& team!
@timeshighered
@RobParsonsNorth
@BBCNEandCumbria
@ahrcpress
Finally, the big prize: University of the Year goes to
@NorthumbriaUni
!
#THEAwards
judges praised its long-term strategy, the success with which it’s been pursued, and its role in changing lives and supporting its region. Huge congratulations! 🍾
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The
#Manchester
I know and love - attacked so many times, resilient and loving to the last. They will never win
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Cumbria…Gateshead…all the amorphous North innit? 🤦🏼♀️
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The Long History Of Argument - this brilliant new BBC radio series by
@RoryStewartUK
is a MUST listen for anyone interested in rhetoric, narrative power & the importance of disagreeing agreeably 👌🏻
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At this point in time working class Labour women make up 100% of the British parliament - savour the moment
#GE2015
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But we CAN fund CLASSICS. Social class alive and well in c21 Britain...
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Very proud to say that I’ve been elected a Fellow of the English Association! Huge thank to whoever nominated me - I’m touched 🙂
@EnglishAssoc
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Real Christmas Eve vibes today 🗳️
After 14yrs of wretched nightmares
Change is coming. Be part of it.
#GE2024
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TODAY: our
@NCAPPG
report is out! Northern leaders to put culture at centre of region’s post-pandemic recovery 💪🏻
@NorthumbriaUni
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My dad was a teacher.
My mum was a TA.
I trained as a school teacher.
My best friends are teachers.
Teachers shape our formative years.
They open doors, turn on lights & paper over cracks in systems.
When teachers walk out, the canary is screaming in the mine
#TeacherStrike
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Mild peril for
@BillandTed3
fans!
One of my favourite lists from
@AdamCSharp
brilliant new book 👍🏻
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TONIGHT - 7.30pm - join us online!
Brand spanking new chat with
@richardosman
at
@durhambookfest
Asking ALL the big questions: Murder, marriage & can you breakdance on a yacht? 🤔
Click here for your FREE ticket:
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In a time when stating the obvious has become a revolutionary act, the profoundly dialogic public debates captured by
@mrjamesob
book make it vital reading for anyone navigating the challenges of a c21st dis-United Globe
#in1sitting
📖✈️
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Our new research in
@guardian
Publishers must act now to develop working-class writers, says report
@NorthumbriaUni
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NEW TODAY: Common People
How can we break the class ceiling in UK publishing?
Read the headlines & download the report in full:
#commonpeople
#InternationalWorkersDay
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