Taxpayer-funded PhD student Daisy Bow du Toit defends her coursemate who’s “using porcelain to interrogate constructed ideologies of whiteness and empire” 🧵
2) Burgher is the subject of my article for The Telegraph today
Both doctoral researchers are funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (taxpayer).
The final cost for each PhD is likely to be upwards of £50k.
telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/05/2…
Both doctoral researchers are funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (taxpayer).
The final cost for each PhD is likely to be upwards of £50k.
telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/05/2…
3) du Toit’s PhD is The Craft of Content Foundation at The University of Kingston kingston.ac.uk/research/resea…
4) Last year Daisy was invited to a conference where she explained how Tik Tok works - making sure to include those “who aren’t present online”:
5) On her research profile she highlights her 67k followed on Instagram and 140k on TikTok.
Her research interests include Identity Politics, TikTok and Instagram:
Her research interests include Identity Politics, TikTok and Instagram:
6) du Toit has collaborated with The National Trust, Levi's and made content for Kew Gardens, but still has time to do a PhD funded by taxpayers.
Some clips from du Toit's videos.
7) "Horrible propaganda"
7) "Horrible propaganda"
8) "We all got a message from our funder"
The taxpayer?
The taxpayer?
9) "The list of people who are being named publicly... is growing"
*Actually, du Toit is the second student I've named. I mostly use study titles.
Besides, if "there are some incredible projects", why object to them being shared?
*Actually, du Toit is the second student I've named. I mostly use study titles.
Besides, if "there are some incredible projects", why object to them being shared?
10) "It's just really sad because the humanities is really under attack financially and the money available for research into topics like my topic 'Content Creation as a Creative Practice' [is] dramatically decreasing"
11) Is the humanities "really under attack financially", though?
Here are more current studies funded by AHRC (du Toit's funder):
£840k
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The Europe that Gay Porn Built, 1945-2000
gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=A…
Here are more current studies funded by AHRC (du Toit's funder):
£840k
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The Europe that Gay Porn Built, 1945-2000
gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=A…
12) £809,334
13) £136,909
14) £805,769
15) £185,627
16) £805,745
17) £205,543
18) £759,293
19) £786,083
20) £120,766
22) Also, if anyone wants to know what the "work" was, I can't say for certain but it could be one of Burgher's "White But Working On It" badges:
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