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10 awful PhDs taxpayers are funding (and this is a tiny sample - there are so many more like this) 1) Queer Whores: Embodied Knowledge and Performance Practices in Sex Work https://www.techne.ac.uk/our-s...

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2) "Cruising the cut: Lesbian histories of mobility and queer futures of boat-dwelling on the UK's canals" https://www.techne.ac.uk/our-s...

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3) "Animals as builders: Exploring animal buildings as sites of agency, rights, and politics" https://www.techne.ac.uk/our-s...

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4) "“Lesbian?”... “She no Lebanese. She Punjabi!”: Tracing the experiences of working-class, queer British South Asian women, 1970s to 1990s" https://www.techne.ac.uk/our-s...

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5) "rub rub rub rub rub rub brush brush quiver oh hello, you: Queer Captioning as Material" https://www.techne.ac.uk/our-s...

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6) "Curating a Diasporic Archive in the Elsewhere: A Critical and Creative Exploration of Recovering, Dismantling, and Re-Imagining the Diasporic Space" https://www.techne.ac.uk/our-s...

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7) "‘Cleaving’ Queer Aesthetics: Contemporary Indian Performance at the Intersections of Caste, Gender and Sexual Politics." https://www.techne.ac.uk/our-s...

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8) "Echoes in the Anthropocene: ecological sound art and ecosocialist activism in Brazil" https://www.techne.ac.uk/our-s...

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9) "“Non-vegetarian” food: Mapping contestations over the consumption of meat, fish and eggs in the culinary cultures of Ahmedabad, India" https://www.techne.ac.uk/our-s...

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10) "Fragmented Bodies, Fragmented Stories: Exploring Endometriosis Through Multidisciplinary Creative Practice to Challenge Cultural Narratives of Women's Pain" It adds: "Endometriosis is an incurable disease affecting 1 in 10 menstruators" https://www.techne.ac.uk/our-s...

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@CharlotteCGill You’ve got to have made at least some of these up!!!?? 🫠

@CharlotteCGill This is what higher education has turned into — taxpayers funding fringe ideology disguised as ‘research.’ These aren’t PhDs; they’re political statements soaking up public money while serious fields struggle for funding. Academia has become a playground for activism, not a

@CharlotteCGill Only the tip of the iceberg, having worked in academia, you see far worse going on. Some are awarded qualifications to pad stats even when they've failed. DEI comes before merit Expensive equipment was skipped just because they had the budget for a new one. It's a 💩 show

@CharlotteCGill What jobs do these people imagine they will get with their newly-minted doctorates in unintelligible nonsense?

@CharlotteCGill All just useless research projects.. all at public expense!

@CharlotteCGill FFS ..,.. and we wonder why we are no longer leading in academia.

@CharlotteCGill Universities promoting sex work is nothing new look at @uniofleicester and its guide to student sex work. It thinks that women go into sex work more because they experience austerity more. Nothing to do with the demand from men! @nordicmodelnow counter this with their Handbook

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Image in tweet by Charlotte Gill
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@CharlotteCGill What does no. 6 even mean? The rest you can sort of guess the nonsense being presented, but no6 is just gibberish

@CharlotteCGill Unbelievable I mean really unbelievable - if they wanted to spaff their own cash - fine but the taxpayers? Jesus

@CharlotteCGill How much is this costing taxpayers?

@CharlotteCGill Here's a good one. 😂 Interrogating the Ontological Underpinnings of Hegemonic Fiscal Ludibria: A Post-Deconstructivist Hermeneutics of Micturative Derision Vis-à-Vis Sovereign Pecuniary Tributaries

@CharlotteCGill I swear, they generate these titles with some old script from the 90s, like the ones we all wrote to autogenerate amusing names for celeb debs, pedigree dogs or up-itself fusion food. "Claudia Jellybean Montmorency" "Trotkins Goodboy" "Panfried Gizzards in a Raspberry Jus"

@CharlotteCGill Please can someone fund a PhD. into researching why my wife has MND? And how to fix it.

@CharlotteCGill Simply the funding councils need abolition and new mechanism that actually advances human knowledge and/or a skills-based industry set up to replace them.

@CharlotteCGill They are all going to ruin art & art world even further. It's been this already for over a decade and I can't take their copy paste art and copy paste propaganda. The intellectual life has been ruined and therefore the intuitive understanding of right and wrong is thrown away.

@CharlotteCGill The media class will indulge any shite

@CharlotteCGill 'Look at me I'm sexy now pay for my pointless PhD'

@CharlotteCGill Makes my brain itch. It's all utter garbage.

@CharlotteCGill Pointless PhDs are a delaying tactic for slackers who won't get a meaningful job

@CharlotteCGill I want my PHD Thinking of “The Impact of Polari on Ice Cream Sales in The Antipodes” (because I fancy a paid holiday and ‘youth hostelling with Chris Ewbank’ was already taken)

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