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Andy Aydın-Aitchison

@andy8chi.bsky.social

Criminologist & former Lada driver. Working on atrocity crimes, democracy, police, Bosnia & Herzegovina, ex-Yu + more. (he/him) May also post family history & other people's cats. Motto: Idle hands draw social theorists poorly on a digital egg.

280 followers715 following131 posts

AAandy8chi.bsky.socialOct 19, 2024 7:05pm

Three (yes, 3!) of my former PhD supervisees launched their books into the world, @dralimalik.bsky.social @frasoliman.bsky.social #PhDChat #Criminology #TransitionalJustice 3/21

Post with image of Dr Ali Malik speaking and of external of Leeds University building with classical columns, text notes a trip down to Yorkshire to see Ali launch the book.

Post, with image of Dr Francesca Soliman talking beside a slide with a bay in Lampedusa and coffins lined up in a warehouse. It notes her work for accounting for the many harms associated with the European border regime.

Picture of Dr Laura Martin in discussion with Dr Simeon Koroma. The Post it is in mentions her work on Sierra Leone and transitional justice.

AAandy8chi.bsky.socialOct 19, 2024 7:11pm

The hot mess of industrial relations in UK higher education continued. In the end, we got our pensions back, made lots of picket-line friends along the way, and made it into a Val McDermid novel (I was listening to the audiobook on my way to the pickets when I discovered this). @ucu.org.uk 4/21

Post celebrating student support of striking University staff with images of students wearing pink UCU union sashes

Post with images of pickets, a picket dog, and a student lock out at Old College, Edinburgh.

Post noting that the UCU strikes were included in the Val McDermid novel Still Life from her Karen Pirie series

Post. Text: Agreement has been reached on the full restoration of USS pensions. 69 days of strike action in the making.

Andy Aydın-Aitchison

@andy8chi.bsky.social

280 followers715 following131 posts