Vicky Knowles @VBKnowles
she/her PhD researcher @sheffielduni @SocStudiesShef Digital media, hate speech and racism(s) in sport Sheffield, South Yorkshire Joined October 2022-
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I apologise for the delayed response to your email, I have enormous personal flaws that I refuse to work on
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better save this to a new document, just in case I later need the worst paragraph ever written
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*citation needed* "are you calling me a liar?"
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Academia is held together by caffeine, free labour, and the two people who nod encouragingly during presentations
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Great week delivering the Digital Methods Summer School at BU. Thanks to everyone who helped out and to the amazing group of PhD students and ECRs from across BU, the UK, and as far away as Turkey.
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📢📢Exciting (face to face and online) training event on YouTube Research offered by the @wrssdtp Digital Technologies, Communication and AI pathway coming up soon with @WarrenPearce and @mikethelwall! Info and registration👇 wrdtp.ac.uk/events/digital…
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Finishing your PhD and staying in academia
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I had a great time @FB_Collective in Leeds learning more about impactful football research taking place in the UK and beyond. Good to hear from emerging scholars, researchers and industry professionals. Well done @AJBond_LBU @Joelrookwood @Fire_and_Skill. #FBC23Leeds 👇🏽📸
Upon further reflection I reckon an entire section of the PhD risk assessment I wrote last year should have been dedicated to Elon Musk
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so thrilled to have been a part of organizing this year's PGR #conference for @SocStudiesShef this year's theme is 'Inequalities, Resistance and Change', looking forward to some fantastic presentations 🌈✨ #PhD @ninavoluminosa @VBKnowles @IslaZavosMacRae @merissabrown123
When someone asks me how the PhD writing is going:
When someone asks me how the PhD writing is going:
The instant panic whenever "David Attenborough" trends will never truly leave you
Okay so I wrote a thing (!) Here's my new blog post about the media, race and activism in English football if you fancy giving it a read 👇 socstudiesresearch.com/2022/12/08/tak…
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Would argue it is, in fact, one of the most basic roles of government to make sure people don’t starve
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Qatar has entered the “What are you gonna do, move the World Cup?” phase of the operation.
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What's left of Twitter's trust and safety team took less than a minute to determine that "shut it Jew" does not violate whatever the rules are now.
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Delighted to have the first article from the @TOHIFNow project published. Congrats to @ColmLearns, @garypsinclair, @dan_kilvington, @kliston14, @jackstblack & @tefletcher1984 for the hard work on this.
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