We are pleased to announce our forthcoming elections this Autumn to appoint the organisation’s Council for 2021-23.

Our organisation operates with a council of 15: the Chair, Vice-Chair, Treasurer, Secretary, and 11 ordinary council members.

Our elections open on 6 November and close on 27 November, with successful candidates notified by 1 December.

If you are a member in good standing (paid up), you will receive your ballot by email via Surveymonkey. If you have not received your ballot, please email Dr Maggie Scull.

Below is a list of candidates alongside their nomination statements (up to 500 words).

Chair:

Dr Caroline Magennis (University of Salford) “I am standing for the role of Chair to deliver on an ambitious programme of events at a critical time for the organisation. I am an established academic with a growing profile in the sub-field of Northern Irish literature and culture, having been promoted to Reader this year. Having led the pivot to online events this Spring, including our online research day and our hugely successful month of #IrishStudies in May, I have the experience required to further extend our provision in this area to make something that we can all be proud of. I want our programme to encapsulate all that is challenging and diverse about Irish Studies in 2020 and reach a wider audience than ever before among our community across these islands. For reasons of equality and the environment, we are passionate about good quality online provision of academic content that showcases the best of our field. If re-elected, I will continue to support my colleagues as they convene and judge our prizes as well as the day-to-day business of the organisation. I will, at the beginning of 2021, work with my colleagues to develop a programme of events which matches or exceeds the great things we have planned for the rest of this year. I will listen to our PhD and ECR members to see how we can best support them. I will continue to work closely with all our partners. If re-elected, I will continue to work collaboratively to deliver projects that tangibly benefit our members.”

Vice-Chair:

Professor Derval Tubridy (Goldsmiths, University of London) “As Vice-Chair I will bring my expertise as a Professor at Goldsmiths, University of London, former Dean of the Graduate School and Associate Pro-Warden for Research and Enterprise, my experience of engaging with the Embassy of Ireland in London, and my background in research on Modern and Contemporary Irish literature and visual art, to BAIS Council to work with the Chair, Executive, and Council members to strengthen our position in the global networks of Irish Studies and to ensure that all voices within the Irish Studies communities both in Britain and abroad are heard. It has been a real pleasure to act as Vice-Chair under the recent leadership and I look forward to continuing in that role for the next term.”

Treasurer:

Dr George Legg (King’s College London) “I have been the BAIS treasurer for two years and would like to continue in this post. In this role I have overseen the processing of member payments, expenses and the distribution of our prizes. A key achievement this year has been setting up BAIS’s online banking which will ensure we can manage our payments in a faster and more direct manner. I have kept the accounts in good order ensuring that we have the funds to embark on our ambitious plans for creating new funding opportunities as well as the dissemination of the ISR to our members. Finally, as a member of the council, I have participated in our job application workshops and I am keen to continue using this position to support our PhD and ECR members.”

Secretary:

Dr Maggie Scull (Syracuse University London) “I am a scholar of conflict in Northern Ireland, more specifically how religious institutions and organisations engage with conflict. I finished my PhD at King’s College London in 2017 before joining KCL as a Teaching Fellow in Modern British and Irish History since 1700 for the 2017/18 academic year. Following this period, I held an Irish Research Council postdoctoral fellowship at NUI Galway while also working with Syracuse University London on an experiential learning module. Since January 2020 I moved to a full-time role with SU London. Most recently, Oxford University Press published my first monograph The Catholic Church and the Northern Ireland Troubles, 1968-98, in 2019. My current work, the basis of my postdoc, examines religious responses to republican and loyalist funerals. I joined the BAIS council in 2016 to represent the views of postgraduate and early career scholars. Throughout my tenure as an ordinary council member, I have actively contributed to council. Since 2017, I have overseen our council and special elections processes. Furthermore, I assist Vikki Barry Brown and Dr Lloyd (Meadhbh) Houston with our Facebook page and Twitter account. In 2018 I co-organised our academic jobs bootcamps, held in Oxford and Liverpool. For the last two years I have helped to judge our postgraduate bursary prizes. Finally, since January 2020 I have acted as Membership Secretary, a role I would hope to combine with the Secretary position if elected. As Secretary of BAIS, I would continue supporting this incredible organisation that seeks to bring scholars of Ireland together, not just across this island, but on a global scale. Our digital events, including our May 2020 conference and Autumn 2020 online events programme, will help us engage a larger audience across continents. Furthermore, as an early career scholar myself, I understand the pitfalls of a crushing academic system. I would hope to work with the council to expand our offerings to postgraduates, early career researchers, and those unemployed, especially as academia becomes even more precarious. Finally, as the Secretary I would endeavour to respond quickly to membership concerns, including access to the Irish Studies Review as well as any special events.”

Ordinary Council Members: (Listed in Alphabetical Order)

Vikki Barry Brown (Queen Mary University of London) “I have been a member of the British Association for Irish Studies since the mid-point of my Master’s degree when I began my dissertation project looking at new ‘Brexit’ Irish passport holders. I am now entering my third year of a PhD in Geography at Queen Mary University of London, examining belonging, identity and home in relation to English migration to Ireland. Those almost-three years have flown by and in that time, I have gained so much from BAIS membership. I have met interesting people, engaged with work across Irish Studies and in 2019 was proud to be awarded a BAIS Bursary in support of my PhD fieldwork. Receiving the bursary not only helped me to carry out research, it opened many doors and as a result I have had opportunities to share my research inside and outside of academia. One of the things that I love about BAIS is the unique capability that the organisation has in capturing the interest and engagement of a broad range of people and groups. For some time, I had been keen to get more involved with the BAIS and that opportunity came earlier this year when I was temporarily co-opted onto the BAIS council in the role of digital officer. I was interested in this position as it meant I could put to use skills gained in my pre-academic career in charity research and policy where I ran campaigns for national organisations. Since accepting the role of digital officer in May 2020, I have been involved in the BAIS social media accounts, helped plan the Autumn events programme and develop ideas for next year. In a year where many of us have been more reliant than usual on our digital lives, it’s been a pleasure to work with such a nice group of people on providing online engagement and interaction. If elected, I would love to continue this work, putting ideas into action and hopefully supporting a 2021 BAIS digital conference, replicating the success and popularity of this years’ event. Although I’ve only been in the role of Digital Officer for a short amount of time, it has been long enough for me to learn a great deal about how BAIS is run and consider the ways in which I could contribute further to the future of the organisation. Irish studies encompasses many subject areas, and if elected I would be especially interested in furthering BAIS engagement with social and political sciences, complementing the already rich interdisciplinary approach of the organisation. Additionally, as an early career researcher who has benefitted from the support of the BAIS, I would relish the chance to ‘return the favour’ and assist with the ongoing excellent provision of events and opportunities that the organisation provides.”

James Bright (University of Edinburgh) “As a young researcher in the field of Irish history, I have greatly appreciated being part of the network that the British Association for Irish Studies provides. Having been a beneficiary of BAIS’s postgraduate research bursary in May 2019, I now want to play a further role in building this vital community. From my personal experience of researching Northern Ireland’s ‘Troubles’ conflict, I know that it is only through facilitating a more holistic and nuanced engagement with Irish history that the complications of the present can be navigated. This chimes with BAIS’s own important role in developing knowledge and understanding between Britain and Ireland, and the recognition of how past fractures can be best addressed with an inclusive broad-based approach. Throughout my PhD studies, I have gained valuable experience in presenting my research before the academic community. I am experienced in communicating my work through diverse forums, whether at traditional conferences or via online media. With regard to the latter, I have had articles published on a variety of online platforms, including the BAIS website and on the blog of Glasgow University’s Historical Perspectives seminar. Presenting a research paper at BAIS’s first virtual conference this May has been a highlight of my academic year, proving that constructive, meaningful, inclusive and above all friendly exchanges of research ideas can prevail even as the pandemic restricts our routine of in-person interactions. I also acted as one of the conference’s moderators, helping to secure the smooth running of the event and keenly interacting with a variety of other contributors to foster debate. Despite its challenges, the virtual environment presents many exciting opportunities for our field that I as a member of the BAIS Council would enthusiastically embrace. Not least among these opportunities is the potential to connect with those beyond the academic institution who a typical conference would not usually reach. Along similar lines, I am also a co-convenor of Edinburgh University’s Modern Irish History Seminar, presently conducted via Zoom. My role as one of three permanent editors of the successful ‘Writing the Troubles’ site has developed many skills complementary to the BAIS Council position. By facilitating an online platform that allows critical reflection on all aspects of the Northern Ireland conflict and its legacy, my role involves sourcing, engaging with and editing contributions from a broad array of both academic and non-academic disciplines. Our contributors have ranged from early career social science researchers to high profile tenured history professors to journalists to artists and poets. This interdisciplinary approach, as well as the broader aim of bridging the gap between the public and scholarly spheres, gels well with the foundational principles of BAIS. Appropriately, my co-editors and I have recently written an article published in the latest edition of Dublin City University’s annual Studia Hibernica journal that addresses the importance of public history in Northern Ireland. I believe that my confidence in utilising virtual media, my belief in the importance of outreach and my nuanced approach to research are all strengths that complement the ethos of BAIS. I would greatly like to be a part of the Council in order to further develop these skills and give something back to an organisation that I have found so personally beneficial.”

Professor Matthew Campbell (University of York) “I am Professor of Modern Literature at the University of York and have published a number of books and articles and chapters on Irish literature. I have nearly twenty years of membership of the BAIS Council and have previously served as Secretary and Chair of the Association.”

Dr Sarah Campbell (Newcastle University) “I am a Senior Lecturer in Irish and British History at Newcastle University, and I specialise in Northern Irish History. My research interests include nineteenth- and twentieth century Irish history, Anglo-Irish relations, political violence, oral history, social movements and protest, memory, and social and cultural history. My monograph, Gerry Fitt and the SDLP: ‘In a minority of one’, was published in 2015 and examines the heterogeneity and evolution of nationalism in Northern Ireland during the 1970s. I am currently working on a monograph about students and the early years of the conflict in Northern Ireland. I started lecturing in Irish history at Newcastle University in 2012 and I’m keen to build connections with the large Irish diaspora and other Irish Studies academics in the North East. I am currently a member of the Board of Directors of the Tyneside Irish Cultural Society and organise their annual lecture series. With other colleagues at Newcastle University, I am building an Irish Studies Network that will hopefully incorporate colleagues at the other North East universities across a myriad of disciplines, as well as those in the community sector. Given the deep connections between the North East and Ireland dating back to Anglo-Saxon times, alongside the pool of local expertise in this domain, there is tremendous potential for the region to develop a centre for research excellence in British-Irish Studies with an international reputation. The planned project, testing a new cross-disciplinary archival method in history and linguistics, would be a first step towards that goal. With that in mind, I am standing for the committee of the British Association of Irish Studies. I would like to join up the work that we’re doing in the North East with the work that is happening at the national level. This work is even more important in the post-Brexit era and should I be elected, my aim would be to continue to develop and strengthen the cultural and educational links between the two countries through the Association.”

Dr Sophie Cooper (University of Leicester) “As an early career academic, BAIS has supported me in a number of important ways over the years. I was awarded a BAIS research travel grant while a PhD student which helped to fund research in Melbourne and gave me the confidence to apply to other grants. Since then, BAIS has provided me with online and in-person networks of likeminded scholars, highlighted research opportunities, and helped to publicise the great scholarship being carried out in Britain. I am really enthusiastic about helping this important work continue both inside the academy and more widely! I am therefore standing for election to the British Association for Irish Studies Council. As a historian of Ireland and its diaspora, particularly the urban communities of Melbourne and Chicago, I believe that scholars, both of the Irish diaspora and those studying Ireland from abroad, have particular research needs which are helped by membership of a network like BAIS. Even though the universities and research institutions of Britain are becoming hubs of diaspora research, at the moment there are no committee members whose research primarily focuses on the Irish diaspora. I am also committed to widening networks globally, having previously studied in Melbourne and a council member of the Irish Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand. I am not only effectively positioned to bring these experiences to the BAIS Council, but extremely eager to do so. I have built up strong networks across Britain – a slight perk, perhaps, of short-term and precarious employment in multiple institutions. My experience of living and working in Scotland, northern England, and now the midlands, means that I can speak to the Irish Studies scholarship being carried in those places. Having benefited from the support of the BAIS in the past, I would relish the opportunity to support upcoming academics, and a precariously employed academic, I understand some of the challenges of precarious and under employment. I would therefore be a passionate supporter of BAIS members in similar positions. As more and more events move online due to the Covid-19 pandemic, we have an opportunity to work even more closely with schools, Irish societies, and government representatives to further raise the profile of Irish Studies in Britain. My social media presence, editorship of the Irish Diaspora Histories Network website, and role as book reviews editor for the Australasian Journal of Irish Studies would contribute to my effectiveness as a member of the BAIS Council. In addition, my experience of working with the Irish Consulate in Scotland and Scottish representatives in Ireland, along with my time working with museums, would be valuable in supporting widening participation initiatives. I am a proud supporter of Irish Studies in Britain, and am excited about the possibility of joining the BAIS Council.”

Professor Richard Grayson (Goldsmiths, University of London) “I feel that this is a really important moment for Irish Studies in Britain. The entire Brexit process has shown how much ignorance there is across British society about Irish-related issues, not least among people in positions of power. Karen Bradley’s genuine surprise about the voting patterns of nationalists and unionists was merely the tip of an iceberg. I feel very strongly that we as scholars of Irish studies need to address this. What does this mean in practical terms? My particular concern at present is the absence of anyone with any Irish History expertise from the REF panel. I know that efforts were made by BAIS to address this, only to find that doors were closed. This is a problem. We know from last time round that the true significance of new work on Irish History, both publications and impact, was sometimes simply not understood by panellists who tended to see it as an offshore aspect of a difficult part of British History. While it is too late to do anything about that for the impending REF, we can start work now for the next one. I would do that by beginning to build coalitions, especially with the Royal Historical Society but also the Historical Association and other bodies, to ensure that we can put forward a strong nominee who can be supported by people beyond Irish History. The time to start work on that is 2021. Of course, I would also take part in a range of other council activities and the life of the BAIS as required. I have already been a book prize assessor and am willing to continue to act in that role. For people who do not know me, I am Professor of 20th Century History at Goldsmiths, University of London. After the early part of my career focused on interwar British political history and foreign policy, my main Irish history publications over the past decade or so have been books on Belfast and Dublin during the First World War, with the Dublin book especially being linked more widely to the Irish Revolution. I also co-edited, with Fearghal McGarry, a volume on memory and commemoration of 1916, both the Somme and the Rising, and I have also published on Republicanism. I am currently working on a volume of a diaries produced by an officer of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers and am in the early stages of work on the County Cork volume of the Four Courts Press county history of the Irish Revolution series. My teaching covers Irish history from the 18th century to the present, and I have worked extensively with community groups on the ‘Decade of Commemoration’, especially in Belfast. I have dual British and Irish citizenship, the latter flowing from family connections to County Armagh going as far back as the late 1600s. My interest in, and commitment to, Irish History and its complications, is deeply personal and heartfelt.”

Dr Erika Hanna (University of Bristol) “I am a social historian of modern Ireland. I am interested in how Ireland has changed in the last hundred years, and how these changes have been experienced in practice by those outside power and on the margins of power. I am always seeking new methods and new sources to explore these themes – my first book, Modern Dublin: Urban Change and the Irish Past (OUP, 2013), was an urban history of Dublin in the 1960s, while my second, Snapshot Stories: Visuality, Photography, and the Social History of Ireland (OUP, forthcoming), used photographs to explore issues of power and powerlessness, visibility and invisibility in modern Ireland. Having spent my life moving between Ireland and Britain, I am fascinated by the way that the two countries see, understand, and use each other, and I am deeply committed to building bridges and connections between the two islands. I am committed to teaching Irish studies both on its own terms and making sure that Ireland is taught on the wider curriculum in its broader European and transnational contexts. I have also organised events in Bristol to bring together the Irish community in the city, and aimed at a wider constituency in order to show the relevance of Ireland to understanding British culture and society (most recently as part of Repeal the 8th campaign). If elected I would be keen to continue in my role of Bursaries secretary, and would do my best (through social media, email, general noise) to ensure that the competitions reflect both the diversity and vitality of Irish studies as researched and practiced in Britain today.”

Dr Lloyd (Meadhbh) Houston (Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford) “Since December 2017 I have proudly served as Communications Officer for BAIS, producing our monthly newsletter and managing our social media accounts, publicising events, publications, and CFPs for our members, and identifying and circulating media and opportunities that will be of interest to Irish Studies scholars. I also compile an annual report on Irish Studies activities in Britain, which Dr Magennis presents to the board of EFACIS, showcasing the range and quality of work produced by our membership to an international audience. Since lockdown measures were introduced in the UK in March, I have collaborated with other members of the council to facilitate a range of on-line events intended to mitigate the disruption Covid-19 poses to scholarly and communal life and maximise the organisation’s visibility and value to our membership. These have included our highly successful Virtual Conference (May 2020) and our forthcoming slate of on-line talks and book launches (October – December 2020). If re-elected, I hope to work with the holder of our newly created ‘Digital Representative’ post to publicise and deliver these events and to develop a wider programme of on-line resources and activities that will allow us to support our members (particularly postgraduates and those early in their career, in precarious posts, or without an academic affiliation) and the wider Irish community in Britain both during the pandemic and after.”

Dr James Kelly (University of Exeter, Cornwall Campus) “My name is Jim Kelly and I’m a Senior Lecturer in the interdisciplinary literary & historical department Humanities Penryn at the University of Exeter’s Cornwall Campus. I’ve written extensively about Nineteenth-century Irish writing, and teach across disciplines here in literature, history, and heritage studies. What I’ve most enjoyed about my time as an Ordinary Council member for BAIS has been contributing to PhD/ECR job-training sessions. Given the large structural challenges to university teaching, particularly humanities, it is vital to continue these outreach activities. It’s important that there is a strong voice for Irish Studies in the United Kingdom, and contributing to BAIS has been a wonderful way of connecting with the next generation of scholars and thinking about how I can help them. It has also taught me about new scholarship, new paradigms of research, and new voices in Irish Studies. The global pandemic has both highlighted and exacerbated issues of precarity in higher education employment, as well as raising questions about online and blended learning. Networks of scholars such as BAIS become ever more important in a world where the traditional classroom has become a site of ideological and epidemiological contestation. We also need think about moving Irish Studies beyond not just traditional humanities disciplines, but outward into STEM and social sciences. How we also link to outside partners (heritage organisations; diasporic networks etc.) is vital to ensuring future success both in employment, visibility, and research funding. I hope that the experience of crafting interdisciplinary modules and degree programmes at the campus in Cornwall would help BAIS tackle some of these developments. While it would be a grotesque understatement to say that these are challenging times, there are signs that Irish Studies could have a vital role to play in UK higher education. The renewed focus on borders in a post-Brexit world and ever-greater calls for enhanced devolution or full independence for nations in the UK give Irish Studies an especial valence going into a future that will see an increase in the population of school-leavers. Meanwhile, lessons in heritage, sustainability, and environmentalism in the Irish context could provide useful guides (or cautionary examples) to British policy. BAIS is vital for ensuring the continued viability and health of Irish Studies in the UK, and I passionately want to continue as a council member to think about the bright future that we can create for our subject.”

Dr Mo Moulton (University of Birmingham) “I am a Senior Lecturer in the History Department at the University of Birmingham, where I am also the current Director of the Centre for Modern British Studies. In my research and my teaching, I see Irish Studies both as a vital subject in its own right and as a necessary component of the study of Britain, Europe, empire, and race, to name just the subjects closest to my own research. My first book, Ireland and the Irish in Interwar England (Cambridge University Press, 2014), argued that the Irish War of Independence, and the subsequent incomplete process of disentanglement, had a far greater impact on English society and politics than had been recognised. Since then, in addition to writing a book on the detective novelist Dorothy L. Sayers and her group of friends which came out last year, I have been working on several projects relating, in different ways, to the Irish co-operative movement and the broader set of utopian projects in early twentieth-century Irish culture. As a Council member, I would work to continue the BAIS’s commitment to fostering new scholars and ensuring a supportive environment for innovative work in the field of Irish Studies. The BAIS has created an inclusive, vibrant scholarly community. The BAIS demonstrated, this spring, the potential for using alternative digital modes for conferences and other forms of networking and sharing research, which I would be enthusiastic about supporting and building. I would bring my expertise in the areas of queer history and trans-inclusive pedagogy to the Council, as well as my commitment to anti-racism and inclusion of minority voices. I would also bring an international perspective, both through my personal history as someone raised and educated in the United States and as a scholar of empire and postcoloniality. The BAIS is a unique, important institution, and it would be an honour to serve on the BAIS Council. Thank you.”

Dr Peadar Ó Muircheartaigh (Aberystwyth University) “I am a Lecturer in Celtic Studies at Aberystwyth University, Wales, where I teach Irish and Scottish Gaelic language and literature. My research interests cover Irish Language Studies – both language and literature, with particular specialisms in Irish-language literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Irish manuscripts, and literary and cultural relations between Ireland and Gaelic Scotland. As a member of the Executive Council of BAIS, I would be eager to raise the profile of Irish Language Studies within Association and to connect with Irish Studies in both Wales and Scotland. The make-up of the Association has, traditionally, been heavily weighted to departments of English literature in English universities. While this is entirely understandable, as an Irish-language scholar based in Wales and trained at a Scottish university, I would hope to be able to bring a fresh perspective to what Irish Studies is and can be in Britain. Much of my recent research has been concerned with the presence of Irish scribes and their manuscripts in 18th- and 19th-century Britain. Beyond my own research interests and expertise, I have been closely involved with Aberystwyth University’s implementation of the Concordat for the Development of Researchers. I would welcome the opportunity to contribute to existing Association initiatives to support Early Career Researchers, especially in the area of grant application / writing workshops and / or feedback sessions.”

Dr Erin Scheopner (Goldsmiths, University of London) “My interest in joining the BAIS council starts with my appreciation for the community of scholars who I have learned from over the past 5 years. During my PhD, BAIS was a lifeline. I am grateful for how being a member of the BAIS community has shaped my own academic journey. I now feel that I am in a position to more actively support the work of advancing the exploration of topics related to Ireland and the Irish diaspora. Diversity of voice is needed and I am encouraged by (and supportive of) the commitment by BAIS to actively seek out and promote anti-racist Irish Studies criticism. BAIS is in a position to lead this conversation and set the new standard for inclusive scholarship and debate. BAIS is also in a position to help forge connections with topics that are too often separated, polarised, and ignored. As a member of council, I will bring my experience studying Anglo-Irish relations and teaching history. Within my research, I am interested in exploring the relationship between media and politics. My thesis and forthcoming monograph, ‘Miserable conflict and confusion’: The Irish Question in British Newspapers, 1916-22, examines British newspaper coverage of Ireland from the aftermath of the Easter Rising to the ratification of the Anglo-Irish Treaty. I also recently published an article with Women’s History Review on British suffrage press and the Irish question. With teaching, I have designed course content on the revolutionary period and Easter Rising (at the undergraduate and secondary levels) in addition to teaching university-level general history courses. Before beginning my studies, I worked in a variety of administrative capacities at non-profits, higher education, and local government institutions. I have extensive experience conducting a wide range of activities to support programs, learning activities, and interdisciplinary projects (of varying scopes, the largest being a $40 million campaign). My experience includes developing and adhering to budgets; creating and promoting educational outreach materials; developing and posting web, print, and social media communications; managing databases; running grants programs; identifying opportunities for external funding; and directing communications for events of various sizes and diverse audiences. These experiences have connected me with an international body of peers and has helped shape my work ethic and style. This background makes me particularly well prepared to undertake the duties as needed for the BAIS council, from the day-to-day responsibilities on through to the commitment to promoting the field of Irish Studies. I believe that my interests, background, and my sincere commitment to developing as a historian, educator, and academic make me a strong candidate for this position. I have the enthusiasm and drive needed to undertake this role and to promote BAIS’s mission of encouraging and supporting Irish cultural activities, and the study of Ireland and Irish culture, in Britain. I am committed to supporting this remit and look forward to helping to see BAIS develop in its innovation, inclusivity, and values.”

Dr Nick Taylor-Collins (Cardiff Metropolitan University) “As an existing executive council member I am excited to put my name in the ring for election for the upcoming term. Over the past two years I have contributed significantly to the BAIS executive council. By coordinating the new book prize, I have helped to develop BAIS’s reach in the academic community, as well as recognising excellent scholarship in BAIS’s community. I look forward to expanding the book prize and enlarging its place on the academic book-prize map. Moreover, I am keen to continue representing Welsh university interests in BAIS and making certain that all parts of Great Britain have a voice at the BAIS table. I am also eager to continue helping the doctoral, postdoctoral and ECR community. As an ECR myself, I am acutely aware of the difficulties that my colleagues face in an increasingly destabilised and precarious landscape. By continuing to contribute at BAIS’s ECR bootcamps, I hope to help others up the academic ladder as best I can. I will continue to advocate for more events that can benefit BAIS’s members who happen to be precarious.”