Ruth Machen
Geographer researching environmental knowledge politics, science-policy and theorising values.
Lecturer at Newcastle APL. Learning how to exist in academia with long Covid.
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- This is an excellent resource for those who would like to reach out to those with long Covid but don’t know how. Simple factual explanations of why social interaction can be more complex than it seems
- Reposted by Ruth MachenPlease sign and share this petition, calling on Newcastle University’s Executive Board to halt the threat of ill-considered and unnecessary redundances that are imperilling careers and the future of our institution. www.change.org/p/end-unnece...
- Raise government awareness of the ongoing impact that long Covid is having on many of us. Share your experience here with Every Story Matters covid19.public-inquiry.uk/every-story-...
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- Reposted by Ruth MachenThe University of Manchester seeks to appoint a Lecturer in Environmental Politics. More info: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMM071/. Closing date: 8/5/2025. I am not involved in the search but would love to see more colleagues in environmental policy and governance. #PublicPolicy #Polisky #PolicyProcess
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- Fantastic supported Marie Curie application dual opportunity (academic couples) for post docs working on environmental policy & technology/knowledge politics. euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/hosting...
- “You’re only ever one step away from disability” (Stephanie Swanson) On Long Covid Awareness Day, please hear the voices of the 2 million (and counting) who have never been able to ‘move on’ from Covid …insight here into the worlds of some of us in UK with Long Covid www.bigissue.com/news/social-...
- Brilliantly apposite piece by Masud Husain "we are sleepwalking into a disaster....losing sight of the academic mission...we don’t have to accept all this. We can...direct our critical thinking inwards...push back on the calamitous corporatization of our universities." doi.org/10.1093/brai...
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- Great to see this perspective piece with @warrenpearce.bsky.social finally come out. Amid the rising interest in AI we reflect on AI and the democratic governance of climate change - what lessons might be taken from wider critical digital studies? wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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- Delighted to have contributed a chapter to this edited collection…I wrote about difficulties in algorithmically accounting for unquantifiable concerns in digital policy simulation models. Other contributors focus on relations with democratic participation, extractivism, ‘digital de-growth’ and more!
- "Digital Technologies for Sustainable Futures: Promises and Pitfalls" (Certomà, Iapaolo, Martellozzo, eds.), published last year by Routledge: bit.ly/4cxnwxz
- Great opportunity for ECRs working on cities and climate change in the global south…
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