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Vivek Santayana

Researcher: postcolonial writing and epistemic justice.
Trade unionist: Vice President of UCU Edinburgh
Table-Top Gaming enthusiast and writer.

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    2021
      Social Mechanics in Table-Top Role-Playing Games
      18 Sep 21
      Talking About How We Work
      20 Aug 21
      Getting the Hang of LaTeX
      8 Aug 21
      Moving Away from a Manual Workflow
      3 Aug 21
      The Viva
      23 Apr 21
      Candlekeep and the Politics of Knowledge
      19 Apr 21
      How the Pokémon Franchise Portrays Academia
      27 Feb 21
    2020
      What Table-Top Gaming Taught Me About Teaching
      20 Nov 20
      #RPGaDay2020: Days 1 to 7
      1 Aug 20
      Carrying it With You: Masculinity, Grief, and Table-Top Role-Playing in Disney/Pixar’s Onward
      19 Jul 20
      How Speculating about Beethoven’s Race Misses the Point
      22 Jun 20
      Comrades: a Revolutionary RPG by W.M. Akers
      22 Jun 20
      What Does it Mean to Have a ‘Conversation’ about Empire?
      9 Jun 20
    2019
      The Difficulty of Being Different
      10 Oct 19
      The Uncritical Whiteness of Edinburgh Activism
      1 Sep 19
      Back on Stage at the Edinburgh Fringe
      2 Aug 19
      28 May 19
      A Natural 20 Performance: When a Dungeons & Dragons Session Becomes Sheer Brilliance
      20 Feb 19
      A Year of Volunteering in the Mental Health Sector
      9 Jan 19
    2018
      The Grand Finale of ‘Adventurers Wanted: Rebellion’ at the Edinburgh Fringe 2018
      27 Aug 18
      Arts Festivals and the ‘Hostile Environment’: the Need for More Nuance
      21 Aug 18
      Adventurers Wanted: Rebellion at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe
      12 Aug 18
      ‘I Want to Tell You’: Beatles Songs for Talking About Mental Wellbeing
      29 Jul 18
      Hailsham Dark: Turning Kazuo Ishiguro’s ‘Never Let Me Go’ into a Table-Top Role Playing Game
      24 Jul 18
      Whose ‘Home’ is it Coming to?: Supporting England in the World Cup
      7 Jul 18
      Volunteers’ Week
      6 Jun 18
      Sara Ahmed: Complaint as Feminist Pedagogy
      17 May 18
      Musée des Beaux Arts
      27 Apr 18
      Conpulsion Conspiracy 2018
      16 Apr 18
      Firbush, Because it’s Okay to Have Fun Once in a While
      12 Apr 18
      A World of One’s Making: Table-Top Roleplaying Games and Nerd Culture
      16 Mar 18
    2017
      Old Women and Cats: Attunement to Shared Worlds
      22 Dec 17
      Old Women and Cats: the Gendering of Solidarity
      15 Dec 17
      Old Women and Cats: Exclusion as a Space for Companionship
      8 Dec 17
      How Korfball Has Helped My PhD
      1 Dec 17
      Mental Health: Let’s Listen, Too
      24 Nov 17
      The ‘Love-Hurt Relationship’ of Academia: Nature’s 2017 Graduate Survey Findings on Mental Health
      17 Nov 17
      OverLAP Conference 2017: Forms of Knowledge
      10 Nov 17
      Domesticating Dogs and the Ethics of Companionship
      3 Nov 17
      The Magic of Harry Potter: Celebrating Twenty Years
      27 Oct 17
      Love’s Labour: Work-Life Balance in Academia
      20 Oct 17
      The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
      13 Oct 17
      The Stress of Research
      6 Oct 17
      The ‘Hostile Environment’: Structural Violence in British Immigration Policy
      29 Sep 17
      The Postcolonial Studies Association Convention, 2017: Globalisation
      22 Sep 17
      The Ig Nobel Prizes, 2017: Liquid Cats, Indistinguishable Twins and Foetal Musical Stimulation
      15 Sep 17
      Googling Depression: the Risks of the Search Engine’s Attempt at Diagnosing Mental Illness
      8 Sep 17
      Acrostic Resistance: Reading the Rhetoric of Irony in the Recent Resignation Letters
      1 Sep 17
      Instagram Diagnosis: Machine Learning, Social Media and Predicting Mental Illness
      25 Aug 17
      A Day in the (Academic) Life
      18 Aug 17
      The Language Hourglass: Language and the Representation of Time
      11 Aug 17
      When is a Kilogram Not Equal to One Kilogram?
      4 Aug 17
      Picturing Deep Time
      26 Jul 17
      The Marvin Problem: or Why Intelligent Robots will be Depressed
      20 Jul 17
      Female Doctor? Academia Needs More of Them.
      16 Jul 17
      Working with Undergraduates: Why it Keeps Me Sane
      9 Jul 17
      The Ethics of Smell: Corporeal Porosity and the Embodiment of Care
      2 Jul 17
      Wibbly-Wobbly, Timey-Wimey: Doctor Who and the Topology of Time
      25 Jun 17
      Liquid Cats at the Flow of Time
      16 Jun 17
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