Sol Gamsu

@solgamsu.bsky.social

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Sociologist/sociologue/soziologe of education (elites, geographies, social mobility, dreaming/fighting for another education). Union rep UCU: organising in various capacities. Working/living in Durham/Newcastle mostly. https://linksta.cc/@Sol%20Gamsu

Children in Lebanon in a truck evacuating/moving.
Letter from ucea about the pay offer to uni staff
Heather woods speaking at Newcastle May day rally in front of the NEU banner in the sunshine.
An advert for student insurance from Palatinate student newspaper in 1970. A picture of chairman mao accompanies the advert text.
Dawn Thompson Bermudan student in geography at durham early 1960s
Graffiti "Free Education Now!"
A graph showing the correlation between NS-SEC percentages and FSM percentages for schools in England. There are negative correlations between percentage NS-SEC1 and NS-SEC2 and FSM and positive correlations for the lower social classes (NS-SEC4, 6-8 and non-classified) but NS-SEC3 and NS-SEC5 are poorly correlated suggesting the limits of FSM as a measure to capture these more granular distinctions of how class affects school intakes.
A hierarchical cluster analysis on principal components showing five clusters of points, coloured by cluster, on a graph.
Bodies are brought to Al-Shifa hospital after Israeli army attacked on Palestinians in Gaza City. Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images
Screenshot of the last two paragraphs pf the shared blog.
Photo of Manshiya neighbourhood of Jaffa in ruins in 1948 after Irgun actions.
Bee flying next to apple tree in flower against wall.
Photo of hills and fields in County Durham
Couple smiling at each other.
Photo of several Black students who studied at (or in one case visited) Durham University - from top left these are: Edna Jane Deinyo Soyannwo (BA Music, St Aidan's College). Lawahez Jabari (a Palestinian student who visited Durham as part of a twinning arrangement between the Durham SU and Birzeit University's Student Council), Mosobalaje Olaloye Oyawoye (Earned his PhD in Geology from Durham in 1959 and went on to be a pionneering geologist in Nigeria and Zambia). Yoruba Girl Dancing (the first novel of Simi Bedford who studied Law at Durham). George Coleridge Taylor (a high profile student - president of the debating Union who met the Queen and went on to be a Sierra Leonian diplomat). Ranjir Sinha (from India, studied history and wanted to be a lawyer). Marcus Balintulo (arrived ona scholarship for South African students that had been supported by student activism and fundraising against Apartheid. He went on to be a sociologist and a university administrator in South Africa). Wamidh Nadhmi (1941-2016) was an Iraqi academic, a secular advocate of Arab nationalism and a critic of Sadam Hussein and later the American occupation of Iraq. Yasmin Daswani - brought up in Hong Kong, Daswani is a lawyer and a cricketer and studied Law at Durham in the early 2010s.