Thread by @fdelond

Just home from day 8 of #UCUStrikesBack. Tomorrow we return to work. As someone who loves my job I really am looking forward to it, but I hope I can work with awesome @bhamlaw colleagues to hold on to some of the energy, love, anger, dreaming & imagination of the last eight days.

@bhamlaw Teach outs have reminded us of teaching as we wish it could be; interest driven, innovative (incl improvisational human rights acting from @megkatcampbell & @btcwarwick),small-ish group, interactive and passionate. So many students attended &, I think, loved this approach.

@bhamlaw @megkatcampbell @btcwarwick On the picket lines I learned so much about my colleagues in @bhamlaw and beyond; we discovered shared interests, spoke about our research, proposed new and better futures, planned and plotted collaborations. Time gave us space to connect and to imagine.

@bhamlaw @megkatcampbell @btcwarwick I have learned a huge amount from my colleagues, esp. my more experienced colleagues who modelled for me how solidarity, collegiality, care and consensus can and should work on the picket line and beyond. Tomorrow I will be happy to bring these lessons back to work with me.

@bhamlaw @megkatcampbell @btcwarwick I have also learned a lot about solidarity and sticking together from friends and colleagues in Ireland including academics and those I was privileged to work with during the repeal campaign and who have supported us, incl. by donating to the fighting fund.

@bhamlaw @megkatcampbell @btcwarwick Thank you to the very many students who have supported us, visited picket lines, turned back, stoped to talk, and reminded us that what they want is critical, insightful, principled education; not to be treated as consumers.

@bhamlaw @megkatcampbell @btcwarwick Special shout out to @phoebeg_7 for her leadership among UoB students over the past week and a half and beyond that, and to the awesome @eoincampbell16 who stood with striking BLS colleagues on the picket lines every single day. Táimíd an-bhródúil, Eoin.