Kate Skinner

Women inclusion in political spaces is NECESSARY! #womencan #womeninpolitics #ghanawoman #includewomen #ghana #abantufordevelopment

259 days to go until the ASAUK24 conference, submit your abstract by 20 April at the latest. If you need a visa, do not delay. auth.oxfordabstracts.com/?redirect=/sta…

Submit abstract by February 1, 2024

@LloydsBank If you cannot answer a call in under 20 minutes, it is not because you are “exceptionally busy”. It is because you have chosen not to not staff your customer service centre properly. Your attitude to your customers is noted.

@LloydsBank I am calling you precisely because what I need can NOT be done on your mobile app. Keeping me waiting 15 minutes to answer a call, whilst repeatedly telling me that I have the option of going online when in fact I don’t, is not good customer service.

#PhDPOSITION on the history of Ghanaian female urban professions @adomakoampofo @PhDinAfrica Anticipated start date: December 1, 2023 or January 1, 2024 Doctoral contract for a period of 36 months, full time Application due: Oct 4 cihablog.com/job/phd-positi… via @cihablog

"The Nkrumah collection at Howard @MoorlandHU is essential to any study of pan-Africanism and nation-building in the Africa of the 1960s and 1970s." Many thanks to @benjamintalton and @JeanAllman for this awesome discussion @africasacountry! 🇬🇭 africasacountry.com/2023/06/archiv…

In 'The Opportunity for Loss is Fully Appreciated, but: Theft and Conflicting Policy in the Making of the Gold Coast's Diamond-Mining Industry, 1919–1950s,' Dr E. Sasu Kwame Sewordor reconstructs the history of diamond mining in colonial Ghana. muse.jhu.edu/article/896869

The new issue of @africajacs is out, 35(2), and includes the set of articles on Revolutionary Mothering brought together by @SerawitBDebele. In the next tweet is the @TandF_Africa voucher which gives 100% free access to all readers on the African continent, of all content.

Another one for my summer reading list.

Deadline for this funded PhD studentship is next week (30 May)

The Dr Philippa Hetherington Memorial Fund, in memory of our much loved colleague, will support SSEES PhD students through the Philippa Hetherington History Research Travel Grant. Please consider giving: ucl.ac.uk/ssees/dr-phili…

Congratulations to everyone involved in this. So impressed by the initiative and engagement of these students.

HIS ONLY WIFE (audiobook edition) by @PeaceMedie is only $4.99 on @AppleBooks! 🎧 Promo ends soon: apple.co/3HuLUm1

You can register for the hybrid Reproducing Law Otherwise roundtable @QMSchoolofLaw on 22 May 6-8pm in Lincoln’s Inn Fields here eventbrite.com/e/627006903527 Thanks also to colleagues @LeverhulmeTrust @QMLAC and @clsgcQM for making these legal spaces to reflect on our #reprotimes!

Adding this to my list for the summer.

This is going to be really good.