Creative writing
To be continued…
“There are times in life when people must know when not to let go. Balloons are designed to teach small children this” TP Sorry Terry, if you don’t mind me calling you that, but this is not THE END. You Read more…
Storytelling
Teachers’ Views on Returning Schools: ‘A trampoline to future opportunities’
5th March, 4-6pm, Reinvention Centre at Westwood, Warwick Campus [Flickr, https://www.flickr.com/photos/alexreyes/] Dr Analia Meo from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, came to discuss a short documentary called Teachers’ Views on Returning Schools. The Film looks at the experiences and Read more…
The Culture of Competition in Modern liberal Societies (25th February)
Professor Johnathan Hearn came to speak, at the University of Warwick, about power and the role of competition in society. ‘Competition is part of the deep structure of how society is organised,’ he said. ‘I am not a supporter of Read more…
Future Research Trip Funded to US
[view of Minneapolis taken by myself] Following a proactive approach to Professor Jack Zipes in 2013 I went to Minneapolis in September 2014 to work as an assistant on the Neighbourhood Bridges Program (Bridges), an arts for education charity. Read more…
Posters to plasticine (Nov 2014)
1stNovember – poster presentation Presented a poster of my research at the Herbert Art Gallery as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Sciences. The exhibition aimed to improve public access to innovative research in Warwick and Coventry and was Read more…
Minneapolis Research Trip Sept 2014
In September I was invited to Minneapolis by Professor Jack Zipes to participate in the work of Neighborhood Bridges. This involved presenting my research to staff, teachers and teaching artists of Neighborhood Bridges, meeting with academics, and going into a Read more…
Up-Down
I was invited to Minneapolis this September by Professor Jack Zipes after meeting him in Cambridge last year in order to talk to the charity Neighborhood Bridges about my research with storytelling. In order to promote my trip and my work to those Read more…
Storytelling
The Well at the World’s End: Storytelling, Health & Well-being (Fri 4th July)
My trip to the conference (Well at the World’s End) and the Beyond the Boarders storytelling festival inspired the following short piece which I dedicate to everyone present this year. [Picture from Redbubble.com] Memories beside the sea – Read more…
Non classé
ASA14 Decennial: Anthropology and Enlightenment Conference (Edinburgh) 19th-22nd June
This year the Anthropology of Storytelling panel invited creative contributions that explored the capacity of storytelling within anthropology and other disciplines. The conference allowed me to reflect and converse with others about how research can be expressed in other forms; Read more…
Academic writing
‘Loving Exclusions: How Marriage Breeds Sex/Gender, Race, Class and State/Nation Inequalities’.
These are thoughts on marriage came from a talk given by V. Spike Peterson (University of Arizona) in Social Sciences 11th June, Warwick University, Discussions about marriage I think that discussions of marriage are very topical at the moment given Read more…