Julie Sanders @ProfJSanders Twitter profile

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Julie Sanders

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1 year

Sad to hear humanities & social sciences students described as having “quite an easy life” on @BBCr4today … not a description I recognise of students engaging with the world in all kinds of complex ways. Apprenticeships are great; thoughtless binaries destructive.

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Julie Sanders

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2 years

Newcastle and Gateshead #StandWithUkraine tonight.

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3 years

Some days the view from the office ⁦ @UniofNewcastle ⁩ is pretty spectacular …

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2 years

Day 1 in the new office and what a day for it. ⁦ @RoyalHolloway ⁩ open day in full swing. Thanks to all the student ambassadors and colleagues welcoming & inspiring everyone today!

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Julie Sanders

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7 months

The obligatory St Pancras book tree photo … did love seeing how happy everyone seemed sat in the booths this evening … 🎄📚

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Julie Sanders

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3 years

Zoom fatigue ...

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Julie Sanders

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2 years

On the day people are remembering Meat Loaf & the music it feels right to share probably my favourite pie chart ever …

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Julie Sanders

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4 years

To everyone today @UniofNewcastle who has cleaned a room, taken home a praying mantis for a holiday, fixed something, posted a lecture online, helped someone, got stiff scaring at a screen in a meeting discussion - thank you. You are ALL amazing. #weareNCL

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3 years

Newcastle …. ❤️

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3 years

Welcoming in 2022 ✨✨✨✨

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5 years

One of those mornings on the River Tyne 😊😊😊 #FromNewcastle

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Julie Sanders

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3 years

This is me 6 years ago sitting in the Borneo rainforest (clearly with a good supply of beer and crisps!!) planning walks to see orang utan and writing a press release for the ⁦ @UniofNewcastle ⁩ team having just accepted a job as a new Pro-Vice-Chancellor.

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Julie Sanders

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4 years

Quite a quality of light this morning ... #Newcastle #Hope

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Julie Sanders

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3 years

What country, friends, is this? Welcoming #LittleAmal on the steps of @The_Globe . The power of storytelling. Shakespeare and sanctuary in action on Bankside today. Moving and inspiring. #ActsOfWelcome #TogetherWithRefugees

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Julie Sanders

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4 years

Had been feeling low level anxious so we decided to walk it off ... and finally got to see an otter on the Tyne. Absolutely magical watching it swim, fish and then haul its catches onto the mudflats. So lucky. Sometimes nature catches you in its embrace. 🐟🦦 #countingmyblessings

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Julie Sanders

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4 years

I may regret this but going to try and do a twitter advent celebrating some of the great stuff that has taken place @UniofNewcastle this year ... so today I am going to start with @NUEstates teams who have kept going through it all & kept campus looking beautiful & here for us.

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Julie Sanders

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2 years

Some very good meetings & discussions today but sometimes you do just need to step out of the door and appreciate the view …

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Julie Sanders

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2 years

So very very proud that @UniofNewcastle is 8th in the world for its work on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. It means the world to see the collective effort of our whole community on social & environmental justice acknowledged here 🌎🌱 #SDGs #ClimateAction

Times Higher Education

@timeshighered

2 years

Western Sydney University claims number one spot in fourth edition of @timeshighered ’s Impact Rankings – the world’s only ranking measuring universities’ contributions to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals #SDGs #THEglobalimpact

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Julie Sanders

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3 years

To all the students and colleagues who were queuing with such good spirits today and to the brilliant vaccination team “on the bus” we at @UniofNewcastle just want to say a massive thank you. #WeAreNCL ❤️💉

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3 years

Queuing for the bus - the vaccine bus #Omicron

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3 years

Someone said to me this week I had a rose tinted view of things. Maybe … 🤓Have a good weekend whatever you do or don’t have planned.

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3 years

Morning, my lovely Tyne …

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3 years

Friday night supper on the beach @rileysfishshack with wine is pretty splendid in itself but to see a pod of dolphins passing by and even leaping out of the water was a bit of a dream come true. #Bliss 🐬🐬🐬

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Julie Sanders

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5 years

Thrilled and delighted to be able to announce our new Chancellor.✨✨✨

Renowned poet Imtiaz Dharker named new Chancellor

Poet, artist and video film-maker Imtiaz Dharker will become Chancellor of Newcastle University on 1 January 2020.

www.ncl.ac.uk

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Julie Sanders

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2 years

Office door closed on my first term @RoyalHolloway Grateful to everyone who helped me through but in a world when educational opportunities & basic freedoms are being denied to so many also grateful for what we can make happen as a place of learning & welcome every day. 🎄✨❤️🎓

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2 years

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Julie Sanders

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4 months

What an amazing thing to honour on International Women’s Day in the year of Bedford College’s 175th anniversary too. Proud & privileged to have a small chance to represent the 2 women’s colleges who are the bedrock of @RoyalHolloway today. #InternationalWomensDay

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Julie Sanders

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2 months

I am loving the sense of us sharing the sky and a sense of wonder all over the UK tonight. Stunning end to a special day - Northern Lights Over Founders Building. Not something I ever imagined typing …✨

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Julie Sanders

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2 years

#UnderTheStars looking amazing tonight @UniofNewcastle

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1 year

Oh Newcastle… ❤️

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Julie Sanders

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2 years

When the honorary degree recipient Shaka Hislop takes time to meet with a major fan from our wonderful ⁦ @NUEstates ⁩ team a little bit of graduation magic happens in the room ⁦ @UniofNewcastle ⁩ ⁦ @SRTRC_England ⁩

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Julie Sanders

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5 years

29 years since we first met and 19 years since we got quietly married with a big bunch of mistletoe. Thanks pal, you’re the best. Happy solstice.

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Julie Sanders

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2 years

Quite a week; said goodbye to one amazing job & place & a tentative but happy hello to new one; met inspirational individuals; celebrated awesome 1st Shakespeare production with @ShakespeareNP team, continued to be inspired by team @The_Globe … & yes I do know how lucky I am …

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Julie Sanders

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2 years

And as if by magic the Kittiwakes return #Spring

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Julie Sanders

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3 years

Fantastic atmosphere on the Tyne this evening. Thanks @NewcastleCC for the light show. #LoveNewcastle

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Julie Sanders

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4 years

Two years since I started this role and today feels like nothing I could have imagined then. University Council meeting on Zoom, virtual meetings to try and support students at a really tough time. And a life in lockdown. But still a #proudDVC for all that. #WeareNCL

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Julie Sanders

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2 years

Quite a day …

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Julie Sanders

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3 years

A pleasing moment of reflection this morning …

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Julie Sanders

@ProfJSanders

3 years

Well that was ridiculously moving. Honour to preside over our first in person graduation ceremony @UniofNewcastle since 2019. So meaningful for everyone in the room to be gathered again in our beautiful King’s Hall to mark this special occasion for the brilliant Class of 2020 🎓

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Julie Sanders

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7 months

Feels like a bit of light in my world just went out but what a contribution, what joy he leaves behind for so many.

Benjamin Zephaniah, British poet and campaigner, dies aged 65

The dub poet and author of collections including Talking Turkeys has died of a brain tumour

www.theguardian.com

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Julie Sanders

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2 years

So that’s it - 100 days officially in the role of Principal @RoyalHolloway & both me & the university community seem to be just about standing … 🤓 thanks to everyone who has helped, smiled, laughed, shared, enabled & supported me in recent weeks … #Milestones #NotNewAnymore

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4 years

A walking meeting with a colleague to talk about amazing interactions between public health research and theatre and to appreciate the @UniofNewcastle campus in autumn. #Hope

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Julie Sanders

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4 years

Listening to the reports from the Oxford Uni vaccine trials on @BBCr4today this morning and just want to take time to pay tribute to medical researchers around the world who have been working so hard to find a way back for us all. #ResearchMatters 🦠

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Julie Sanders

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1 year

Feel like a childhood dream has come true being allowed to step into the British Museum after hours …

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Julie Sanders

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3 years

#SummerSolstice2021

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Julie Sanders

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6 months

Morning light on Founders Building ⁦ @RoyalHolloway ⁩ - #WalkToWork

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Julie Sanders

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4 years

Someone just pointed out to me it is 5 years this week since I joined @UniofNewcastle ... hard to believe & a lot to grapple with right now but thank you to the amazing colleagues & students, past & present, who’ve been there for me & inspired me every step of the way. #proudDVC

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Julie Sanders

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4 years

Okay emotional one this. This has been one of the hardest weeks of my working career, but endlessly grateful for the efforts and care and creativity of @UniofNewcastle colleagues and students and for our friends and partners not least the amazing @northernstage @TWAMmuseums 💫1/2

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Julie Sanders

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3 years

Sunshine and students on campus … now there is a thing 😎

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3 years

So proud of collective effort that led to our recognition as a University of Sanctuary. Heartfelt thanks to all the colleagues, students & community advisors who made this possible. To be a university of welcome & refuge is a marvellous & important thing.

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Julie Sanders

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4 years

Like other Unis we’ll be doing everything we can at Newcastle to support students and make sure as many as possible can start the academic year with us studying the subjects they want to. And thanks to all the colleagues helping to try to make this happen. #WeAreNCL

Newcastle University

@UniofNewcastle

4 years

We welcome today’s announcement to honour teacher-assessed grades and we are delighted to confirm that we will accept students who meet the terms of their original offer with us here at Newcastle University. View our latest statement 👉 #alevelresults

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Julie Sanders

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2 years

Lovely meal with my Exec Board colleagues tonight. Going to miss them and going to miss this place too. #Lucky #NotGoodbye

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Julie Sanders

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4 years

Watching some parts of the sector taking chunks out of others today & while I understand the anxiety & perceived bias it often stems from it isn’t helpful for any of us. Universities are amazing places & collectively we will do our very best for this year’s applicants. Together.

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Julie Sanders

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12 days

On the eve of a General Election & a day after the anniversary of the 1928 Equal Franchise Act I reflect on the amazing link between @RoyalHolloway & the women’s suffrage movement. Proud to have worked with our Students Union to advocate for the power of a voice & a vote. 🗳️

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Julie Sanders

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3 years

To the person who just kindly took the time to email me to tell me “You have no idea what it’s like to do academic research ...” #FridayFeelings

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Julie Sanders

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3 years

Just a bit of puffin content if anyone needs it …

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5 months

Friday … ❤️

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Julie Sanders

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10 months

Feeling a bit broken by the news feed today I will confess. But tomorrow is another day & will bring more rich conversations with colleagues sharing passions or just trying to make things work, students finding their purpose & that is what I will lean into & lean on to find hope

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Julie Sanders

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5 years

Pretty nice when your walk home from work involved this sunset and a grey seal munching on a fish in the high tide of the River Tyne #lifecanbeamazing

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Julie Sanders

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3 years

Reflective morning.

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Julie Sanders

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4 years

7 years ago I had just lived through my first major typhoon, watched my home go under & waded out in the middle of the night through high waters. Remembering this to remind myself we get through & that usually we get through because of the love, kindness & support of others. 🌈

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Julie Sanders

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3 years

So today I got my first vaccine dose. Partner booked in soon too. And spring really does feel like it is here. Thanks to all the kind people looking after us today at the Monkseaton centre. #Lucky

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Julie Sanders

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5 years

The use of terms like “fierce” “ugly” and “fear” here surely cannot be how we want to work or be viewed as a sector? Today of all days can we please think carefully about the language and images we deploy and the behaviours we model?

Times Higher Education

@timeshighered

5 years

“ @UniversitiesUK needs to become a high-profile, agenda-setting, proactive, ubiquitous and deeply respected powerhouse. It needs to get fierce and ugly at times…Fear precedes respect – and willingness to change tack.”

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Julie Sanders

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2 years

Colleagues @UniofNewcastle past and present have gathered today to mark the retirement of Dr John Hogan our Registrar. End of an era but so much love and laughter in the room which says everything about the man.

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Julie Sanders

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3 years

So that is me putting the Out of Office message on the work stuff for a while … Wishing everyone @UniofNewcastle & Twitter friends a peaceful time over the coming days. Whether you are celebrating or not, I hope you find time for the things you love & the ones you love. ✨✨✨

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Julie Sanders

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2 years

And am just so excited that we will be awarding Sirkka-Liisa an honorary degree @UniofNewcastle this coming week in recognition of her work. 🎓📸

#WOMENSART

@womensart1

2 years

From 'The writing in the sand' series by photographer Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen, documenting life on the beaches in the North East of England, 1973-1998 #WomensArt

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Julie Sanders

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11 months

What Emily Dickinson once described as an “amber revelation” … #Sunset

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Julie Sanders

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2 years

Something very atmospheric about campus tonight. @RoyalHolloway 🌙

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Julie Sanders

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4 years

Got a date with the long suffering husband tonight and we are off to get takeaway pizza. Impossibly excited and wondering whether I need to dress up for the occasion. 🤔👗👠🍕

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Julie Sanders

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3 years

Very excited and just a little daunted to have signed the contract to edit Henry IV Part 1 for the new CUP series overseen by the brilliant & inspiring general editorial team of @mj_kidnie @soniamassai69 & Gillian Wood working with Emily Hockley at the Press.

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Julie Sanders

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1 year

Another advantage of a very early morning walk to campus to give an international research talk online today was my meeting with some of our beautiful fellow residents. 🦌🌅

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2 years

Moon shot 🌕

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3 years

And still can’t but be happy with the walk home from work ... #LoveNewcastle

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Julie Sanders

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4 years

A couple of days of Northumberland light is very good for the soul. A curlew soundscape has sung us to sleep each night.

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5 years

Walking home by high tide and thinking what a beautiful place Newcastle is ...

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Julie Sanders

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2 years

Hold onto the memories … they will hold onto you … I will hold onto you. (Taylor Swift)

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Julie Sanders

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4 months

At the end of a long day of meetings this is still a view to thrill the heart … #London #BreathingInByTheRiver

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2 years

Truly a winter wonderland here ⁦ @RoyalHolloway ⁩ today ❄️🥶☃️

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Julie Sanders

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2 years

Walking home and moved to see our cultural venues lit in solidarity with Ukraine #StandWithUkraine ️ 🇺🇦

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Julie Sanders

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4 years

20 was a difficult year so not many photos but 21 and 22 were a whole lot better ... (and yes those are theatre tickets ....) 🙄

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Julie Sanders

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2 years

Today marks one whole amazing, exhilarating, challenging & exhausting month in the new role @RoyalHolloway & of missing but continuing to feel the love & support of colleagues @UniofNewcastle … So I’ll take that as a great month. Happy Hallowe’en 🎃

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3 years

One of those sunset weeks …

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3 years

Well I have had worse locations for a meeting …. 🤓

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Julie Sanders

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4 years

Very proud of what being 11th in the world says about our values-led University and commitment to the #UNSDGs . So proud too of the collective effort this represents. 🌍🌱🦧💧♻️

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Julie Sanders

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3 months

To the young woman I spoke to on the train tonight, you are grace personified and it might not feel like it right now but things will get better and over time you will find your own purpose and way in the world and you will be amazing. Take care.

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4 years

Never prouder ... MBBS Class of 2020 we honour your achievements and commitment. Cheering and clapping you with all my heart from lockdown. 👏🏽👏👏🏾👏🏻👏🏿🎓🎓🎓💙💙💙

Newcastle University

@UniofNewcastle

4 years

For the first time in our history, our newly qualified doctors are taking part in an online graduation ceremony before they start work in the #NHS . Join them to celebrate their achievements as they read the Hippocratic Oath #NCLgrad #wearencl #unisupports

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3 years

Quite something to be able to say I am at #COP26 with our Head of Sustainability Matt Dunlop who has done so much to steer the committed climate action work @UniofNewcastle @NCLSusCampus #TogetherForOurPlanet

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3 years

And these amazing sunsets just keep on coming …

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1 year

Perils of packing 📦…. Where did those years go? #StudyAbroad

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5 years

Another seal on the Tyne this morning. Feels like a bit of magic. Best commute in the world. Just saying ...🤓

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4 years

This week I served on an appointment panel for said Uni and there was an explicit commitment in the team to equality, diversity, and inclusion issues. I remembered that wee lass and how sad she felt that day. I hope she would be proud. Life come full circle in a good way. 2/2

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Julie Sanders

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3 years

Emotional and heartfelt thank you to our retiring Pro-Vice-Chancellor of Education @UniofNewcastle Suzanne Cholerton at an online event today. An amazing contribution with students always at the heart. She will be much missed.

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3 years

#MyPlace

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Julie Sanders

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5 years

Proud that @UniofNewcastle is flying the European flag today and asserting why it is a global community and expressing our appreciation and support for all our European colleagues, students, alumni and partners. For the World. 🌎 and thanks to @EllieClewlow for beautiful ✨

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4 years

Still something magical about a university campus as the light falls on an autumn evening @UniofNewcastle

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Julie Sanders

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3 years

Walking home from work feels pretty glorious tonight. Taking none of this for granted.

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Julie Sanders

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2 years

Never tire of seeing this mural in Ouseburn. Nice excuse to walk past in the daylight en route to an off campus meeting today. #WhenKingfishersCatchFire

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Julie Sanders

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4 years

Feel so powerless to stop the piecemeal dismantling of the cultural sector right now. It has given me so much over the years and we all risk so much if we don’t fight for its survival. To everyone in theatre struggling just now, I am sorry. I care. #TheatreMatters 🎭

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Julie Sanders

@ProfJSanders

5 years

Very proud of @UniofNewcastle for this. Much work to do but as a community we are committed to positive change. #ClimateEmergency

Newcastle University

@StudentsNCL

5 years

Today we signalled our commitment to climate change action by joining organisations around the world in declaring a climate emergency. As part of this declaration we've committed to achieve net-zero carbon dioxide emissions by 2040. #climatechange

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Julie Sanders

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3 years

To @LNER teams who battled those they could home to Newcastle last night & to beloved partner who went above & beyond to walk to station with wet weather gear for me I am very grateful to have woken up at home today. Hope everyone w/o power gets sorted soon. Stay safe. Be kind.

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Julie Sanders

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3 years

Thanks to everyone @UniofNewcastle who has managed to keep another week on the rails. For teaching, marking, studying, mentoring, sorting, testing, examining data, providing books, fixing stuff, training people, being on panels, being kind, being there - thank you. #WeAreNCL

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