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 views of teachers and young people at schools in Buenos Read more…
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 competition. I used to be a musician and thought I Read more…
[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. During that trip I spoke to Dr Ingram at Minnesota Read more…
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 attended by the general public, academics, small business owners, and Read more…
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 number of different schools to see the project in action. Read more…
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 in the ‘nonacademic bubble’ I had the idea of using pictures. Read more…
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 – a micro story The trees watched the people as they Read more…
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; and in doing so central ideas to the research become Read more…
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 the media attention on same sex marriages, and the long Read more…
I went to a poetry reading on the 17thMay, Warwick Arts Centre, at the University of Warwick. Good writing always inspires me to write something, not necessarily good, so this is why that poetry reading inspired me to write a poem. Louis de Bernières is a talented British writer best Read more…