#cardiff-university — Public Fediverse posts
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Playing with dolls can help children develop imagination and social skills – UK study https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/mar/18/playing-with-dolls-can-help-children-develop-imagination-and-social-skills-uk-study #Children #Barbie #Toys #EarlyYearsEducation #CardiffUniversity #Education #UkNews
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Spending the evening at a reception at the Peer’s Dining Hall at the House of Lords to thank friends and Alumni of #CardiffUniversity alongside VC Professor Wendy Larner and Chancellor Laura Trevelyan
Many thanks to fellow Alumni Lord Leslie Griffiths for sponsoring the event. -
British Council abre convocatoria 2026 de becas Women in STEM para mexicanas
Diez mujeres mexicanas recibirán apoyo económico para cursar un posgrado STEM (Ciencia, Tecnología, Ingeniería y Matemáticas, por sus siglas en inglés) en el Reino Unido, con un apoyo mínimo de £40,000 libras por beneficiaria.
Por Deyanira Vázquez | ReporteraEn un contexto donde la participación de las mujeres en ciencia, tecnología, ingeniería y matemáticas (STEM) sigue siendo limitada tanto en México como a nivel global, el British Council, la organización internacional del Reino Unido para las relaciones culturales y las oportunidades educativas, anunció la apertura de la convocatoria 2026 de su programa Women in STEM (Mujeres en STEM).
Por sexto año consecutivo, esta iniciativa ofrece apoyo económico para cursar estudios de posgrado en el Reino Unido, con el objetivo de eliminar las barreras económicas que históricamente han limitado el acceso de las mujeres a estos campos.
“Una de las formas más efectivas de cerrar la brecha de género es garantizar que los estudios en STEM sean una opción real y alcanzable para las mujeres. Este programa transforma talento en oportunidades y contribuye a construir un ecosistema más diverso, innovador y representativo en México”, señaló Darren Coyle, director del British Council para México y el Caribe.
En esta edición, diez mujeres mexicanas recibirán apoyo económico para cursar una maestría de un año en el Reino Unido: cinco en Cardiff University y cinco en University of Essex. Estos apoyos económicos cuentan con el respaldo de Fundación Coppel y del Consejo Potosino de Ciencia y Tecnología (COPOCYT), de los cuales dos, con el respaldo de esta última institución, están destinados específicamente a mujeres originarias de San Luis Potosí. –sn–
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The New University, Cathays Park, Cardiff, 1917 - Philco Postcard
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Wonderful PhD studentship here.
Cardiff University AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) studentship with Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
The Reg and George archive: co-creating stories about love, care and LGBTQ+ relationships in later life.
#phdPosition #PhD #lgbtq #Wales #CardiffUniversity #AmgueddfaCymru
https://www.findaphd.com/phds/programme/phd-journalism-media-and-culture/?p4736
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Enlightening article
I was drawn to Wales as an international student - this is why people like me aren't coming anymore - Wales Online https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/news-opinion/drawn-wales-international-student-people-30966615#webview=1
#immigration #Cardiffuniversity #Wales #internationalstudents
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Deiseb/Petition:
Achubwch ieithoedd modern yn #PrifysgolCaerdydd
Save modern languages at #CardiffUniversity
My sympathies with all facing redundancy. I do a French evening class and my tutors have been wonderful. In a world where we need more connection, the idea that we scrap modern languages in #Cardiff is a disgrace. Please support this petition.
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Cardiff University in Crisis
I saw in the news today that Cardiff University has announced a series of mergers, closures and widepsread job cuts in order to deal with a financial deficit. If I understand the announcement correctly, the intention is to terminate the equivalent of 400 full-time academic posts, which is over 10% of the academic staff complement. No doubt there will also be job losses among the important professional services and support staff. There is plenty of doubt, however, as to whether they will extend to members of the Senior Management Team who made today’s announcement and who should really be the ones held to account.
Cardiff is by no means the only UK university being decimated in this way. It is just the latest in a long list. The crisis in UK higher education has been brewing since Brexit, and the subsequent reduction in overseas students needed to balance the books in the absence of significant ncreases in tuition fees for UK students. A burst of inflation post-Covid and, more recently, increased National Insurance contributions have taken many institutions to the brink of solvency. That’s the official line. You can add, unofficially, poor decision-making at senior management level, in many cases pursuing expensive and over-ambitious vanity projects that have ultimately proved unaffordable but impossible to cancel.
One has to remember that when university managers make decisions on closing down units, it’s not often on the basis that those units are losing money. For a start, universities operate according to complicated and arbitrary financial models small adjustments to which can easily move a department from black to red or vice versa. Moreover, over half the income of a university is not spent on the front-line activities of teaching and research: a huge slice is absorbed by the central administration to fund “strategic” investments (i.e. risky projects) and of course to pay vast salaries to the VC, PVCs and other assorted cronies. Departments therefore tend to be judged not on whether they can cover their own costs but whether they return a surplus to The Centre.
(Incidentally, while the UK Higher Education sector is in turmoil, there is no sign of vice-chancellor pay packages being cut. Quite the opposite, in fact.)
I’d be the first to admit that running a large university is a difficult job. Even in the lower levels of management as Head of School at Sussex, I agonized over many decisions. During that time I came to the conclusion that being a successful manager of something is very stressful if you actually care about it. This is why so many of the people who prosper in senior university management circles are not people who care at all about what makes a university what it is. They just see everything as a sterile combination of metrics and spreadsheets and boxes to be ticked. This, not the funding shortfall per se, is why universities are experiencing an “existential crisis”.
Anyway, among the specific proposals at Cardiff are the closures of courses and whole Departments in Ancient History, Modern Languages, Music, Nursing and Religion & Theology. Job cuts (or, as the announcement puts it, “reductions in staff FTE”) will affect (among others) the Schools of Biosciences, Chemistry, Computer Sciences, Engineering, Mathematics, and Medicine. The list of Schools to face job losses look to me to be mainly those who had relied strongly on overseas students as a source of revenue, a source which must have dried up.
Another proposal (one of four mergers of Schools) involves the creation of a new School of Natural Sciences formed by merging Chemistry, Earth Sciences and “Physics”. The latter should be “Physics & Astronomy“, not “Physics”. I hope that carelessness is not typical of the forthcoming process. Physics & Astronomy is not earmarked for losses of academic jobs, but the merger is almost certainly intended to allow cuts in support staff. As per the above paragraph, Chemistry staff will be cut, so the new School of Natural Sciences will not be off to a happy start.
I worked at Cardiff University for many years, and am in regular touch with a number of friends and former colleagues still there, so this news is very distressing. All I can do is offer a message of solidarity and encourage everyone who is not in a Union to join immediately! I have a terrible feeling that today’s announcement is only the start.
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Nice being back again in the #Cardiff #Wales #UK while having good memories
Looking fwd reconnecting & open discussions on ongoing #ActionResearch at #CardiffUniversity
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21681376.2024.2311099
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The Cuts in UK Higher Education
Today friend of mine send me a message pointing out that in order to save money the University of Sussex is planning to make about 300 staff redundant; you can see an article about it in the Times Higher here. For the time being it seems the plan to make these savings via a voluntary severance scheme. I don’t know whether academic and administrative staff will be treated equally, either.
This is grim news. I worked at Sussex from 2013 until 2016 when I resigned my post as Head of School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences. I took that decision largely for personal reasons but there were professional reasons too. From 2013 the University had embarked on an ambitious growth plan based on buoyant student numbers and the fee income generated thereby. Staff numbers grew too, to cope with the increased demand for teaching. Unfortunately the management was unable to match this with real improvements in infrastructure, largely due to the disastrous outsourcing of campus estates and services. Many promises made to me as Head of School by Senior Management were broken. I wasn’t the only Head of School to compain of this, either. Although things were still going relatively well when I left in 2016, and I was optimistic for the future of the School then, there were severe risks to its financial stability if student recruitment dived. Sadly, that’s exactly what happened. Falling student numbers – especially from overseas – left the institution very vulnerable, especially since the fee per student did not change. That problem was exacerbated by a burst of inflation. AlthoughIt has clearly been a very difficult time for the University of Sussex, largely due to national and international forces beyond its control, but exacerbated by ineffective, and at times incompetent, institutional management.
It worries me that Maynooth University is also trying to grow very quickly, without adequate investment in infrastructure especially teaching. It isn’t increasing the number of academic staff much either, preferring to hire more and more managers; yet another such position was advertised this week. I don’t know whether Maynooth’s financial trajectory will follow that of Sussex. The funding environment is very different in Ireland compared to the UK, so it may not. It is clear that the enviroment for education and research here is being steadily degraded by the current leadership.
Anyway, when I saw the announcement about Sussex, I checked other Universities I’ve worked in over the years. There’s a list here. It seems that while there are particular factors at play at Sussex, there are similar difficulties across the Board. Cardiff University has a deficit of £35 million and the VC has refused to rule out compulsory redundancies there. I’m not sure how this is all affecting the School of Physics & Astronomy. Nottingham University, where I worked from 1999 to 2007, has deficit of £30 million, in response to which it has opened a voluntary severance scheme, introduced hiring freezes, cut non-pay budgets, and refused to renew 500 fixed-term contracts.
There certainly are cold winds blowing across the University landscape in the United Kingdom, and there is no sign of any respite. This is just the start.
#CardiffUniversity #HigherEducation #Sussex #universityFunding #UniversityOfSussex
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I'll be giving the next Cardiff University School of Earth and Environmental Sciences public lecture on November 12th, covering what climate #TippingPoints are, how close they might be, and what we can do about them - come along if you're around Cardiff then!
https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/earth-environmental-sciences/events/public-lecture-series
#ClimateChange #SciComm #Cardiff #CardiffUniversity #ScienceTalk #TippingPoints
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Interesting event at Cardiff University
'Navigating Disinformation - Who Should We Trust? with Babita Sharma'
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Did you know: In 1993, [the precursor of #IMDb] "...moved onto the fledgling WWW under the name of #CardiffInternetMovieDatabase. The database resided on the servers of the computer science department of #CardiffUniversity in #Wales". #CardiffTrivia
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Yesterday Kloe and I made our way to #CardiffUniversity and attended #The30ishAwards where we BOTH received little glass cubes in the Innovation prize category. 🏆
To think @thecwordpodcast has reached so many and done so much is amazing! 🎙️
We felt incredibly glam, and humbled to be in such good company (leaders and change-makers across the world, really). ✨
And yes, we totes stole the board you see in that photo.
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I suppose I should take a moment to say that Kloe and I have been nominated for the Innovation Award at the 2023 Cardiff University 30(ish) Awards! 🏆
It's for our work on @thecwordpodcast (2017-present) and we're so chuffed. 💜
The award ceremony (...unbelievable words to type) is next week and I get to dress up and stuff. ✨
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Daisy had a fabulous morning offering free hugs and kisses to stressed medical students at #CardiffUniversity #HeathHospital #Medic #Welfare cafe.
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It’s been a Dinotastic kind of day! #outreach #cardiffuniversity
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Delivering #Fulbright #Lectureship in
#Entrepreneurship #SmallBusinessManagement on #DataDrivenEconomies #UnderestimatedCities #TechEntrepreneurs revolving around #Blockchain #Bitcoin #Mastodon #TwitterMigration #Ethereum #DataCooperatives #SmartCities with active discussion with #students
by connecting #California with #BasqueCountry #Mondragon and #Wales #CardiffUniversity #partnerships
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Obviously doing something right! Students turning up 30 mins before the lecture starts! #scicomm #science #CardiffUniversity
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#introduction: I’m a #writer from #Bristol with an #MA and #PhD in #CreativeWriting from #CardiffUniversity.
After a lifelong focus on #scriptwriting, I’ve shifted to #blogging about #popular_culture and #tech.
I also regressed recently to an adolescent obsession with #vinyl #records — although life’s too short for 45s.
I’ve been developing a #WordPress.org #blog on the above interests and started this #Mastodon account as a companion to it — hope to get the site online in the New Year.