Ellie Munro

@elmunro

Researcher. Voluntary & community action: history, policy, theory. @cdjplus.bsky.social board. Former trade union bureaucrat & policy wonk. Brand: charity archives, institutional theory, campaigning, communities, disability, Godzilla. All snark mine.

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Ellie Munro@elmunro· Jul 10

An excellent, restorative morning at Mayday Rooms - an archive of radical movements and subcultures - getting to know the lovely people there and flicking through some eco activism material. Also turned up some stuff on radical gardening for one of my fringe projects.

Article in a paper magazine called "a gardeners guide for survival in the modern world"

Ellie Munro@elmunro· Jun 30

More conferences should have brass bands

Brass band dressed in lots of gold items playing jazzy tunes outside a University building

Ellie Munro@elmunro· Jun 30

More conferences should have drum troupes

Women's drumming group She Booms dressed in red, with lots of drums

Ellie Munro@elmunro· Jun 30

The colonial mindset, as illustrated by Peter Westoboy

A presentation slide with a picture of lunch on one side and a toilet on the other. Text is: 2026 Fracture #1. I am between you, the lunch and a toilet break. We are in a mind-body split moment... and usually in our lives the mind wins OVER the body... which of course plays out in our practice. Some suggest this is the essence of the colonial mindset.

Ellie Munro@elmunro· Jun 30

Lingering imposter syndrome immediately demolished this morning by an opening talk on the history of the Glasgow University Settlement. My whole bag! I first learnt about the Settlement Movement (& voluntary action history) in Economic & Social History classes here at Glasgow. Happy WCDC!

Ellie Munro@elmunro· Jun 29

Look it's where we got kettled that time!

Photo of a street looking up towards Strathclyde University. Lots of the walls have murals now.

Ellie Munro@elmunro· Jun 11

SOGGY

A picket line of maybe 30 people? In raincoats and under umbrellas, clearly in the rain, some holding signs, some with fists raised in the solidarity pose, in front of the Sheffield Hallam Owen Building Main Entrance.

Ellie Munro@elmunro· Jun 10

Oh No it me tho

Garden: strawberries to the front, tomatoes in the back, a small tabby cat stuck in the middle.

Ellie Munro@elmunro· Jun 2

Head Gardener

Miss Reina Fenix, a tabby cat, sat on a wooden bench with her front paws including white socks dangling off the front of the bench. Underneath the bench is an assortment of pots and trays and a plastic bag full of junk.

Shot of garden with red brick wall in background, one square flower bed with an apple tree, then a lot of pots with strawberries, tomatoes, marigolds, chives. Also a pond in an old tin bath and Steve Gnome in his red hat.

Another shot of the garden with some tall green plants in pots, low green plants with white flowers, a few purple flower spikes, and paving slabs on the ground.

Ellie Munro@elmunro· Jun 1

Incredible sticker game from some comrades up the road #SaveSheffieldHallam #strike @ucuhallam.bsky.social

Ellie Munro@elmunro· May 28

I've got a nest of carder bees in one of my pots! You can't see much here but it's very pleasing that they've made their nest out of old wool fleece, literally carding the wool. There's lovely for you.

Ellie Munro@elmunro· May 27

Hi #UCU26! We're starting our strike today at Sheffield Hallam University, show our delegates some love and solidarity ❤💪 @ucuhallam.bsky.social

Four UCU Hallam placards reading:
1. These are not just sector wide challenges, they gambled our future on vanity projects
2. No to sham subsidiary employment
3. They gambled our future on vanity projects
4. A long reworking of the Only Fools and Horses theme tune

Ellie Munro@elmunro· May 27

They've put an actual lion in the middle of our picket spot! Underhanded management tactics as usual etc etc. #SaveSheffieldHallam #Strike (Follow @ucuhallam.bsky.social for actual content)

A lion statue wrapped in black plastic on a concrete plinth, it's for a lion tour round sheffield organised by/for Sheffield Children's Hospital Charity. Launching 8th June!

Ellie Munro@elmunro· May 19

Tabby cat with a white bib looking at camera through bannisters

Ellie Munro@elmunro· May 13

At Charity Records and Archives Now day conference at British Academy with Paul Beard presenting on his TNA collaborative PhD research mapping voluntary sector archives. They really roll out the red carpet for charity history down here ey...

Static parade of Beefeater in their red jackets and tall black hats on the Mall.

Ellie Munro@elmunro· Apr 23

Exciting books you find in the university library but don't have time to read (an ongoing problem). Love a timeline.

Book propped up in library stacks called "Cartographies of time: a history of the timeline"

Back of the book with blurb, headed "What does history look like? How do you draw time?"

Ellie Munro@elmunro· Apr 21

What a review.

Quote: Summing up, this book presents no novel approaches or foundational insights. I must say I have learned nothing from this book, and cannot recommend it to others.

Ellie Munro@elmunro· Apr 16

This is, I would argue a challenging room for a traditional academic presentation. Great fun though.

The interior of Firth Hall at University of Sheffield, which has a very high ceiling like a church. It does have a screen, but fit into a sort of rectangle with a roof on it, a very tall shape rather than wide.

Ellie Munro@elmunro· Apr 12

Prioritising density in our planned neighbourhood.

An unopened flat card construction kit for an n-guage low relief tower block, for a model railway. They look like quite fancy flats as they've all got balconies with French sliding patio doors (rather than normal doors), but i imagine it as v 1980s.

An n gauge train wagon for freight, open at top, on some model railway tracks. The wagon is full of cut out Miffy rabbits of different sizes. The backdrop is a spacey science fiction drawn image, 1950s or 1960s style, of an imagined settlement/neighbourhood within a tube that is curving up to a vanishing point.

Ellie Munro@elmunro· Apr 8

Keynote speaker

A very very large crab in a museum exhibit.

Ellie Munro@elmunro· Apr 8

Some v beautiful posters at BSA. Very much approve of the cutting and sticking approach.

Research poster for project called "Murder shows and comfy clothes: working class women and true crime", designed like a cork board with clues and evidence like what you'd get in a true crime show.

Beautiful poster with collage and painting for a project called "Source to the Sea ethnography". Lovely blues of a river and fishes, and a collage of photos of water sites.

Ellie Munro@elmunro· Apr 7

Getting mixed signals from Dr Penta about this conference paper - there's a lot of purring, but also a lot of trying to scratch the words off the page.

Back of the head of a black cat sat on my wrist facing towards a portrait orientation monitor with a word doc open on it. His paw is reached up and resting on it.

Ellie Munro@elmunro· Mar 28

Joyful lunchtime field trip for the Community Development Journal to Trans Pride Scotland's standing protest at the Scottish Parliament. DID YOU KNOW though trans women have been banned from using the women's toilets inside the Scottish Parliament. 🤮

Photo of the backs of a group of activists sitting on the grass, standing up, waving pride flags, under a lovely blue sky.

Two people holding up a banner for the LGBT+ Section of the Fire Brigade Union Scotland.

Two activists sat with a banner for Guides Against Trans Exclusion

The back of a person with cool colourful hair and a leather jacket with the words "boy" and "girl" crossed out, and "tired" written in nonbinary flag colours, also with planets and whatnot embroidered all over it.

Ellie Munro@elmunro· Mar 27

Why will no one believe that I *already* have a doctorate (c.f. my employer who's been asking me to "prove it")

A targeted ad on linked in from a company called Aimlay, offering me the opportunity to nominate myself for an honorary doctorate. The image in the ad reads Add "Dr." before your name & receive an honorary doctorate in your own passionate skill. Hassle free process. More than 100+ categories. Expert profiling. The picture is of a white man in maybe his 60s with quite a red face and a smug look, in academic robes holding a red degree tube. Perhaps I'm being rude, but...

Ellie Munro@elmunro· Mar 17

Extremely cute post today

Book - A Queer Scrapbook: Britain and Ireland since 1945, editors Justin Bengry, Matt Cook, Rebecca Jennings and E-J Scott.

Ellie Munro@elmunro· Mar 17

Oo - you say - is that a pack of EMR branded playing cards, a perfectly reasonable and desirable branded item? Why No! It's 4x13 marketing messages that massively overpromise on the quality of service you should expect!

Card tin, with some clues on it that it might not be playing cards, such as text that reads "4x13 cards, suitable for traditional card games such as: snap, pairs, old maid."

A messy pile of the cards themselves advertising service qualities like wi-fi! Seats! Quieter! Luxurious! Refreshed! Accessible! In short, a terrible and incoherent marketing product. Glorious.

Ellie Munro@elmunro· Mar 17

Did I run to the station to acquire this ridiculous selection of New Train tat? Of course I did, you've met me.

A ridiculous collection of tat celebrating the launch of the Aurora train by EMR. Includes tiny Teddy, crayons, box of cards, chocolate, tiny jigsaw puzzle, and a drawstring "bag of fun".

Ellie Munro@elmunro· Mar 13

Finally got my thesis printed to massage my fragile ego. Here's Reina Fenix showing it the respect it deserves.

Out of focus aggressive looking tabby cat with white paws sitting on top of my very thick blue hardbound phd thesis, labelled E.M.Munro PhD 2022.

Ellie Munro@elmunro· Mar 10

Super cute electioneering

Foyer at Sheffield Hallam University with hand painted square fabric election banners for each student Union election candidate, strung up high on string.

Ellie Munro@elmunro· Feb 20

Some excellent additions to the campaign badge library