Academic Kindness Postcard Exchange - Registration Closed

This will be the third incarnation of the Academic Kindness Gift Circle - but given some of the issues I've had with past gift circles (time, resources, cost, and - most importantly - people not receiving gifts! This is a totally unacceptable situation - I run the Academic Kindness Gift Circle based on trust and kindness!

This time I've decided that the gift circle will be a postcard exchange. There will be an international pool - however, there is an option to tick if you cannot afford the cost of international postage, to ensure you are matched with someone in the same country (or as near as possible) as you.

Please feel free to post your postcards on Twitter or Instagram using the hashtag #AKPE and #AcademicKindness

So, as always, the rules:

• The academic kindness postcard exchange is open to everyone who is involved, in any conceivable way, with academic work. This includes everyone from postgraduate students up, professional services staff, people who are independent academics, people who are alt-ac or ac-adjacent. If you don't know if you qualify assume that you do and sign up. We are open to everyone who wants to get a bit of academic kindness in their life!
• Sign up will be open from 18/06 to 18/07 (midnight BST).
• Allocations will be sent out on a rolling basis between 19/07 and 07/08. You will then have until the end of August to post your postcard. If you have not received your allocation by 08/08 please email me to check!
• Postcards can be interpreted as loosely as you like. They may be store bought, they may be handmade, they may be as simple or as elaborate as you like. Please write a personal message on your postcard - something motivational, or based around ideas of solidarity and kindness.

• If you sign up to participate you must send a postcard to your allocated person!