ESRC sending millions of pounds to Sally Hines / Leeds Uni to research gender bollocks

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There's £700k, for example, for 'Living Gender in Diverse Times'

This features a motley crew of gender cultists:

Helen [redacted] (credited only as 'Helen', and with the email adress of press@mermaids) (she's on twitter as @mimmymum and has an adoring audience of diaper fetishists & furries as she says how great puberty blockers)

Meg-John Barker (partner of Edward Lord, non-binary freemason & big-time TRA), previously featured here: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3339137-BACP-Gender-Sexual-and-Relationship-Diversity-by-Dr-Meg-John-Barker

Anna Carlile - gender cultist lecturer at Goldsmiths and Mermaids advocate

Justin Hancock - is a double act with Meg-John Barker (above) megjohnandjustin.com/about-us/

Ruth Pearce - Leeds Uni gender cultist ruthpearce.net/

Emma Renold - professor of childhood studies, promotes transgender identity to children www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5932855/Transgender-muffin-challenge-young-people-reads-like-satire.html

Vanita Sundaram - intersectional feminist type, busy retweeting tweets from TW calling for Rachel Stock to be fired for transphobia twitter.com/VanitaSundaram

Liam Tielemans - works for some sort LGBT charity. Strangely, the emphasis seems to be on the T. www.lgbtconsortium.org.uk/node/3308

Strangely there does not seem to be any non-kool-aid drinkers among their number.

It's not really surprising this crap becomes law & public policy when there's a never-ending stream of cash, public (as here), semi-public (like BBC CiN), and private (Lloyds, etc.)

Follow the money.

Ok, enough. I keep seeing people use the word 'brilliant', which I always thought meant exceptionally good and clever, but now apparently means turgidly idiotic.

I can't get Paul Whitehouse's Fast Show bloke with the woolly hat and the big coat out of my head now.

"BRILLIANT!"

Can unintelligent people still be academics? Is what I might ask Sally if she hadn't blocked me some time ago.

Although her very existence, and that of Cyclepath, rather suggests that the answer is yes.

Yes, pomo has pretty much guaranteed that university is the ideal haven for the fearsomely dull in the head, because the combination of incomprehensible language obscuring silly, unworkable ideas and egos that don't want to admit they don't understand the word salad so they perpetuate the charade. Throw in funding and it's a circus.

Ohhhh...She's still going.

twitter.com/sally_hines/status/1085236151542267904?s=19

I will never stop cringing for her.

STEM professors are too busy doing research and teaching students to engage in length, misspelt twitter spats. In the social sciences they have more time on their hands, clearly. Perhaps we could profitably spend the money on rail safety, or drug discovery, or fundamental work on cancer, rather than worthless bullshit.

'on mass'

she’s an actual academic and yet apppears to have no actual understanding of what gender critical feminists believe? I mean, the very obvious homophobia in the TRA movement isn’t even disguised. It’s there for all to see. The lesbophobic ideology which wants lesbians to accept piv sex with male bodied people and if they say no, TRANSPHOBIA

'on mass'

I know! She's the gift that keeps on giving!

She keeps saying "irony".

I think she has no knowledge of what the word means. Perhaps beyond having listened to some Alanis Morrisette records.

She doesn’t understand what irony means AND she can’t spell shaggable. How does someone that dim become a professor?

Keep digging hun

She genuinely doesn't understand the meaning of irony. You were being a bitch Sally. Face it. I'd have more respect.

How does someone that dim become a professor?

Sociology, though. It's not as though she needs to be able to construct a coherent argument, analyse facts, construct explanatory hypotheses or write clearly. It's basically "my feels say" with a defined benefits pension.

FiLiA response to Professor Sally Hines by Dr Heather Brunskell-Evans (spokeswoman):

filia.org.uk/news/2018/12/17/a-reply-to-sally-hines-by-heather-brunskell-evans

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www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3480710-A-Reply-to-Sally-Hines-by-Heather-Brunskell-Evans-FiLiA-Spokeswoman

How does someone that dim become a professor?

Some institutions have fair and transparent promotions systems, most dont.
As I've aged in the academy, and in various Social Science Depts, including Depts of Sociology, I've noticed two groups of professors.

1. The first type, who were promoted to professorships in older age, had been plugging away for years and are true experts in their field. They were finally promoted by their institutions when it became too embarrassing not to, or when another institution tried to poach them for their highly regarded publications.
2. The second type, who tend to reach the position of Professor much younger, tend to gain this position through job moves and aggressive negotiations when/if they obtain grant income (threatening to take it to another institution for instance). Sometimes they are true rising stars, sometimes they were just very very lucky and hoodwinked an under prepared panel/idiotic hiring team. Hines seems to have been 'lucky'. The academy is broken when people of her caliber are in the professoriate.

2. The second type, who tend to reach the position of Professor much younger, tend to gain this position through job moves and aggressive negotiations when/if they obtain grant income (threatening to take it to another institution for instance). Sometimes they are true rising stars, sometimes they were just very very lucky and hoodwinked an under prepared panel/idiotic hiring team. Hines seems to have been 'lucky'. The academy is broken when people of her caliber are in the professoriate.

GCSocScientist
Do you think there's a correlation with which academics are skilled in gaining high value grants for research and also the influence of those bodies/individuals providing the grants with high value?

Yes. And perhaps the organisations that are then contracted to assist with that research?

Do you think there's a correlation with which academics are skilled in gaining high value grants for research and also the influence of those bodies/individuals providing the grants with high value?

I think its more likely that when you are an expert in a niche topic the anon. reviewers (other academics in different institutions) are from a smaller pool and potentially less competent. I would also expect them to be personally incentivised to rate the proposal highly as they too would gain from the enhanced profile of their niche topic.

I doubt the ESRC has a vested interest in specific topics, their agenda is very much to ensure the public gets value for money and benefits from the expenditure.

Though there is often a pursuit of 'new' and 'cutting edge' research, which may have been misinterpreted as oddball woo in this case...

their agenda is very much to ensure the public gets value for money and benefits from the expenditure.

Since the summary of the research starts by quoting Miley Cyrus, you'll excuse my scepticism about the likelihood that this £700k will give value for money and public benefit. It reads like utter bollocks.

ReflectentMonatomism
Do you read whole posts and sentences?

4:23 PM - 14 Jan 2019
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Just to clarify, Sally Hines has Californian time on her tweets. This means that she seems to post this kind of stuff after midnight. What could it be about her evening routine that means she seems to lose her head at that time of night?

I suppose it must be excessive tiredness after a day of very hard analysis.

Wow...

I think its more likely that when you are an expert in a niche topic the anon. reviewers (other academics in different institutions) are from a smaller pool and potentially less competent. I would also expect them to be personally incentivised to rate the proposal highly as they too would gain from the enhanced profile of their niche topic.

I've wondered this. Who reviewed SH's research proposals - other transgenderism experts, or a wider pool of reviewers?

I've wondered this. Who reviewed SH's research proposals - other transgenderism experts, or a wider pool of reviewers?

It may well have to predominantly be people who identify as transgender and have lived experience.

Be interesting to see how much Stephen Whittle is involved for example.