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CPC-CG member Dr David McCollum is presenting 'Social mobility & global mobility: Framings of social mobilities through the #TuringScheme' at the Centre for Global Higher Education Conference.
David is one of the panellists exploring components of the student mobility landscape in the UK, post-#Brexit.
Find out more: https://www.researchcghe.org/events/cghe-2026-navigating-the-equity-crisis-in-global-he/
#studentmobility #brexit #highereducation #internationalstudents #ukuniversities #erasmusplus #turingscheme #taith #virtualmobility #geopolitics
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"In February, Sheffield Hallam University, home to the Helena Kennedy Centre for International Justice (HKC), a leading research institution focused on human rights, ordered one of its best-known professors, Laura Murphy, to cease research on supply chains and forced labour in China."
Academic freedom is threatened by institutional conflicts of interest. Her research has been reinstated after she said she would take legal action.
[Edit: more background on the topic https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025-05-29/chinas-economy-runs-on-uyghur-forced-labour]
#AcademicFreedom #SheffieldHallam #UKresearch #ConflictsOfInterest #UKuniversities #HumanRights #ForcedLabour #Uighurs #Xinjiang #LauraMurphy #UKChinaRelations