I have been awarded a grant for a project with the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry to begin on completion of my doctorate. This is a highly competative staff fund, for large-scale projects which support the university’s teaching and learning strategy. I obtained this grant with the support of Cath Lambert. Read more…
Job title: Undergraduate research assistant Deadline: 12 noon, 29th February This might be the opportunity for you Are you an undergraduate first year student in social sciences or humanities? Would you like research experience on your CV? Do you need paid work experience? Overview of the project Read more…
The International Sociological Association have accepted my abstract to speak in Vienna this July. Yay! I won’t be wearing a dress made from curtains but this is what the presentation will be on, perhaps I’ll see you there. Photo ‘Vienna’ by Osamu Kaneko (http://bit.ly/1OuQFXF) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ A Managed Heart in Read more…
Zombies. I was asked by Iggy to prepare a Sociological reply to the following questions regarding the film World War Z. First I would like to say that I did not enjoy this film. I was bored. This is a personal option, yet, if you want to see a good Read more…
The show got me during its final moments when the young people on the stage said to the audience ‘you have a choice.’ I was enjoying four young people’s portrayal freedom riders in the US; riding the buses to protest against segregation. Part of me, however, wanted to hear another Read more…
During June and July I was travelling. My last trip was to the US to work with Dr Ingram at the University of Minnesota, advising her on possible methodology changes in the implementation and assessment of the Neighborhood Bridges Program used to analyse critical literacy in storytelling and drama. Here Read more…
The plot: A woman asks a raven to fetch a piece of her lover’s heart. Last month I republished my ebook Temptation & Mozzarella. This month I would like to share a link to a PDF file of the story Raven’s Heart. This is a story I created but did Read more…
‘You remind me,’ said the woman on the other side, ‘of Alice in Wonderland.’ I had left my belongings back in the other world, including my shoes, and crawled through a tunnel of lights into an Aladdin’s cave of pedagogy. There were no giant, talking flowers but there were: Read more…
Red, there’s a reason why women claim it as their colour. It’s a power colour, interwoven with our right of passage into womanhood. This month I submitted a story to the Scottish Book Trust part a fairy tale and part biography inspired by my journey to doing a PhD. The Read more…
(based on the genius song “Agony” from Into the Woods by Stephen Sondheim) Did I abuse this (educational opportunity)by showing distain?My brain’s feeling mashed up.I might just lose it;tormented I’m reeling from frontal lobe pain! Agony!VIVA’s out of my reachWhen you’ve had an ideaYet that idea it still defies speech Read more…