Okay so this is going off subject from my usual posts. But I just saw this awesome Ted presentation about conductive inks by Dr Kate Stone. Dr Stone’s talk blew me away, I got chills. This is what I want to do with an idea I am currently working on! Read more…
Thanks to Tanith Lee I’ve planned a live lounge for Iggy members to discuss Wolfland. Wolfland is one of my absolute favourite reworkings of Little Red Riding Hood so I would recommend this one. Who is Tanith Lee? Tanith Lee is a British fantasy author. She is the author of Read more…
When I met with Jack Zipes in November 2013 to talk about my research into storytelling he kindly invited me to Minneapolis, US, to work with Neighbourhood Bridges, a charity for underprivileged youth advancement in literacy and communication skills. Neighbourhood Bridges is recognised by the US Government for as a Read more…
Childcare meeting a conference? What are you talking about, Emma? The name of the conference was Education, Emotions and the Future Seminar. I attended and spoke at this fascinating conference in Leicester (22 Jan 2014). The standard of speakers was very high. Here is a link to the presentation that Read more…
This month I went to Cambridge to talk to Professor Jack Zipes about my PhD in storytelling and socialization. Here is a podcast about my visit. it begins with an introduction of my work followed by a summary from Professor Zipes of his unusual career path including how he believes Read more…
‘life should be until you die’ Stated Felicity (Parfitt 2013a line. 87). [Photo by Null Value at Flickr.com] From an initial analysis of my focus groups young people seem to be aware of conformist and nonconformist elements in the stories—such as the compulsion to accept social “norms” and Read more…
Young People’s Educational Identities in Challenging Times The title of my presentation was Climbing the Beanstalk: Self-worth and Education. It was a challenge for me to think about my research in a different light. That is, how it could be related to young people’s educational identities. I largely let the Read more…
The transformations summer school hosted by Warwick University, Milburn House, and planned by Paul Whitehouse and myself took place July 2013. This was a free, two-day non-residential drama and storytelling event supported by the widening participation team in the English Department, with an additional £1000 funding from PREP (Postgraduate Researcher Read more…
On the 16th June I went to a discussion about writing emotion with Katherine Angel as part of Warwick Book Festival. Katherine gave a reading that was beautiful and frank in terms of female sexuality. The book is fragmented in structure, the resulting narrative like poetry, true, unsettling, revealing… Listening Read more…
This morning I went to a screening of new ITV drama Love and Marriage followed by a Q&A with writer Stewart Harcourt. Stewart voiced the same advice Professor Douglas Dunn gave me ten years ago at St Andrews—persistence. The ones that turn writing into career are the ones that Read more…