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My lovely fellow MA & PhD panellists and I yesterday - so grateful to have the opportunity to present at this year's conference! #BASR2024

Fantastic presentations from the 're/assessing approaches to sensitive research in religious studies' panel today! #BASR2024

I've had a lot of academic fun at the British Association for the Study of Religion conference this Monday. It's always lovely to meet up and chat with friends and scholars! 🤓📖 #basr #basr2024 #universityofleeds #religiousstudies

What an amazing panel to close #BASR2024 where we heard articulations on re/assessing approaches to sensitive research. I reflected on this in a Sikh context with government, media, and policy implications, and the lack of understanding of Sikh practices and the impacts of this

"There are bodies everywhere!" Mel Prideaux showing us a cemetery that's now mainly a green space, now part of the University of Leeds. #BASR2024

And that's a wrap! Thank you to everyone who has helped make #BASR2024 such a great success, from your three tired but happy organisers, Mel Prideaux, Dr Aled Thomas 🏳️‍🌈 ☮🌍, and Erin Clark🫧

An excellent panel - a testament to the fantastic research conducted by early career researchers in the study of religion! #basr2024

a picture of the guy who says shootings are a "fact of life"

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From Jennifer Carter, a teacher at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia. What the hell are we doing?

"One of the lessons we learnt was that you cant place any reliance on Israeli accounts of events" Thomas Hurndall, a British photo journalist, was trying to help some children when he was shot in the head & killed by an IDF sniper in 2003. His dad was on Sky last November.

Govt seem to be relying on a total bogus report commissioned by 4 WCs, United Utilities, Anglian Water, Severn Trent and South West Water that it would cost £90bn to nationalise the water industry. The Financial Times commissioned Moody's to have a look and they think it would cost as little as

Some of us might need them

1) I was grateful this morning to be invited by Matthew Wright onto LBC to discuss the internationally significant killing of Aysenur Ezgi Eygi by the IDF. But I was sad not to be given time to mention the analogous case of Tom Hurndall, who was shot in Rafah in April 2003...

Oh good, I was hoping for a terrifying, fungus-related dystopian nightmare today

This is the first time I have seen an article which talks about phytomining from seaweed. Always optimisic it may contribute to reduced mining on land (if done right!), and hope that may extend to the sea too... triplepundit.com/story/2024/phy…

Philippines arrests celebrity pastor Apollo Quiboloy, also wanted in US, for sex crimes The pastor – former President Rodrigo Duterte’s spiritual adviser – is accused of sex trafficking and sexual abuse, and is on the FBI’s ‘most wanted’ list in the United States

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