Read the latest blogs from around Staffordshire University
- Antonin Artaud – Revolutionary Messages, translated by Joel White
Published here in its entirety in English, Artaud’s Revolutionary Messages collects Antonin Artaud’s political, aesthetic and philosophical writings during his travels to Mexico in 1936. Not only will you gain crucial insight into Artaud’s time in Mexico and his vision of a “total revolution,” which he ... read more - An exciting Michel Serres translation project
Michel Serres’ monumental book Le système de Leibniz et ses modèles mathématiques, published in 1968, has long been regarded as having an important place in his philosohical work. At over 800 pages, it has remained untranslated – but that’s now changing. Bill Ross, who ... read more - Recent postgraduate student success
Graduates from the MA in Continental Philosophy have recently gained places on PhD programs at the University of Chicago, the University of Hawai’i, the University of Durham, and the University of Glasgow. Sharon Hagenbeek presented her research on animality to the 2023 annual conference of the Nietzsche Society in ... read more - Technophany – Entropies
Joel White, Executive Editor at the journal Technophany, announces a special edition entitled Entropies. The edition is forthcoming very soon, so watch this space. ... read more - Patrick O’Connor – latest publications on philosophy and film…‘Spiritual Cinema: Agel, Merleau-Ponty and the Cinematic Real,’ Journal of Religion & Film 28, no. 1, (April 2024), Article 62, 1-31. ‘Screening Solidarity: Possible Lives in the Films of the Dardenne Brothers,’ Herausforderung Solidarität: Konzepte – Kontroversen – Perspektiven, Wetzler: Transcript Publishing, 2024. ... read more
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Patrick O’Connor’s Podcast Thales’ Well – Recent Episodes On Richard Rorty with Chris Voparil On writing with Lars Iyer On secular gurus with Chris Cavanagh ... read more - Paul Auster
In his last novel, Baumgartner, Paul Auster contemplated the nature of loss and mortality. Auster had been ill with lung cancer for some time before his death this week, and this novel now, in retrospect, has the feel of a … Continue reading ... read more - From @StaffsStepUP to BA Hons Working with Children, Young People and Families: Danielle’s blog #StepUptoHE
Coming to university was never part of the plan. Indeed, I had no plan. Working in screen printing since I was 16, I was shy, nervous and simply had no ambition or desire to change my career. Then in 2020 something changed, I did what I wanted to do ... read more - PhD, research, academic, European and other specialist job sitesby Prof Jon Fairburn This blog should be especially useful for PGT, PGR and early career researchers looking for jobs, fellowships or scholarships. I also cover some relevant placement opportunities below for UG. The second half of the blog covers … Continue reading ... read more
- The Danish Jobrotation model: A path to an inclusive labour marketby Prof David Etherington Since 2020 a number of studies and reports[1] have been produced jointly between Staffordshire University and Citizens Advice North Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent (CANSS) on poverty in Stoke on Trent highlighting the following challenges to … Continue reading ... read more
- Business and Management Research News 2024Staffordshire Business School was ranked No1 in the Million+ group of universities in REF2021 – you can see our submission on the national results website here and for Business Schools across the sector there is an analysis by the Chartered Association of Business Schools (we ranked 51st … Continue reading ... read more
- What can you do if you are not happy with something you have purchased?
By Graham Peacham (Student) What can you do if something you bought is not fit for purpose? Let’s find out… The law gives you the right to reject and return items bought in certain circumstances, but what does the Consumer Rights Act 2015 say? Items, also known as ... read more - Discrimination in the Workplace.
By Subhaan Nadeem (Student) Recognising the value of diversity and promoting inclusivity not only benefits a company but it also enhances the well-being of its employees. However, sometimes employees, job applicants and others are affected by discrimination or discriminative practices. The law provides protection in the workplace under ... read more - https://blogs.staffs.ac.uk/philosophy/?p=1971
Conference on Michel Serres and Bruno Latour Maison Française d’Oxford Institut français de recherche à l’étranger https://www.mfo.ac.uk/event/conference-michel-serres-and-bruno-latour-conversation In May, David took part in a conference at the Maison Française d’Oxford (with the support of La Fondation ... read more - Workshops (free and in person) – Training in the use of AI for PGR and PGT researchersA cross university team has won a grant from Advance HE (read more here). The first set of workshops for the project are now available to be booked. Participants can sign up to 1-5 workshops depending on their needs. Link … Continue reading ... read more
