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Category: Postgraduate Corner

Lucy Writers’ Contributor Shortlisted for the BBC Radio 4 Today Programme Student Journalism Awards 2019

16th October 201917th October 2019  Lucy Writers

Lucy Writers are proud to announce that Gabriela Frost, a regular arts writer for the platform, has been shortlisted for the BBC Radio 4 Today Programme Student Journalism Awards 2019, under the category of ‘Criticism’. 

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Posted in Lucy Features, My Cambridge, Postgraduate CornerTagged: Andrew O'Hagan, arts, BBC, BBC Radio 4 Today Programme Student Journalism Awards 2019, criticism, Gabriela Frost, Gaby Frost, journalism, Lucy Cavendish College, Lucy Writers, Martha Kearney, Radio 4, Sarah Sands, Sathnam Sanghera, Student Critic of the Year 2019, Student Journalism, Today Programme

It’s time for Athena SWAN to be intersectional at the departmental level.

30th April 201930th April 2019  Furaha Asani

Deploring the lack of diversity in academia, Dr Furaha Asani calls for greater accountability and reflection within STEMM departments through initiatives like the Athena SWAN award.

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Posted in Opinion, Postgraduate Corner, STEMTagged: Athena SWAN, Athena SWAN Silver award, Feminism, Gender Equality, Gender equity, Higher Education, Intersectional Feminism, Intersectionality in Academia, Scientific Women's Academic Network, STEM, STEMM, University

Are Black Women Academics Really Included in Women’s Month Celebrations?

10th April 201922nd April 2019  Furaha Asani

UK universities are celebrating International Women’s Month (IWM), but Black women academics are still getting left behind, writes our contributor Dr Furaha Asani.

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Posted in My Feminisms, Opinion, Postgraduate CornerTagged: Academia, Athena SWAN, Black Early Career Researchers, Dr Furaha Asani, Dr Nicola Rollock, Feminism, Higher Education, International Women's Month, Intersectional Feminism, Race Equality Charter, Universities

Brexit: A Student’s Point of View

11th March 201920th October 2019  Marion Beauchamp-Levet

Lucy Cavendish student Marion Beauchamp-Levet talks with fellow Erasmus scholars about the fears and formalities of Brexit.

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Posted in Features, My Cambridge, Politics, Postgraduate CornerTagged: Brexit, Citizenship, education, Erasmus, EU, Europe, European Union, Learning Together, Politics, Populism, students

They say it is love. We say it is gendered labour.

8th March 20198th April 2019  Harriet Thompson

Gender disparity doesn’t just exist in the home and workplace, but in university classrooms too. Our contributor Harriet Thompson considers the imbalance of gendered admin labour in higher education and calls for institutional change.

Read More “They say it is love. We say it is gendered labour.”
Posted in My Feminisms, Opinion, Postgraduate CornerTagged: Academia, Doctoral Study, Emotional Labour, Emotional Work, Gender disparity, gendered admin labour, gendered labour, Mental Load, unpaid work, Wages for Housework
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