On #covid day of reflection 2025, remember the rise of covid mutual aid groups that helped people self-isolate, did people's shopping, provided emotional support etc. etc.

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The latest issue of BAAL News - my first as editor - has just been published: www.baal.org.uk/wp-content/u...

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Send us your love (or the abstract) until the end of the week #PALA2025 ❤️

This week students are flying their feedback for the mid-term module evaluation ✈️

Our starter pack for the qualitative methods community is growing! Check out these brilliant qual scholars, and reply to this post if you'd like to be included: bsky.app/starter-pack... #qualitative

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Curious about what a 'diffractive' approach to reader-response stylistics may look like? Or just need a break from doomscrolling? Either way, come to my talk next week! Register here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/c695f6... #stylistics #diffraction

Toolkit launched to support young women with body image A toolkit designed to promote a positive body image among young people in Portsmouth has been launched.

We launched some of the materials from our British Academy funded project on Wednesday night on Young Women & Body Image @c19thceleb.bsky.social @stephenpihlaja.bsky.social

I love the title! 🤩

Very happy to have presented my research on desire in qualitative research at #QRS2025! 😁

UK's hierarchy of accents: 'I thought mine made me sound stupid' Sociolinguists say accent bias is prevalent in the UK and affects how people are perceived by classmates, colleagues and friends.

Great piece on UK (mostly English) accent discrimination here featuring lots of our favourite linguists. If you're looking for an accessible overview for A level, here it is.
BBC News - UK's hierarchy of accents: 'I thought mine made me sound stupid'
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Aston University hosts creative responses to the pandemic through poetry showcase Over 50 poets, academics, students and members of the public attended the event at Aston Business School in Birmingham

This was such an inspiring evening listening to wonderfully talented poets!
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🌱Are you interested in communicating about biobased, biodegradable and compostable materials? 🌱 Join our BB-REG-NET online meeting on Monday 13th January at 11.00 GMT. Register here: bb-reg-net.org.uk

See you all this Saturday at our 'Writing and Reading the Pandemic' poetry event! Looking forward to hearing some amazing pandemic poems by Jamie Hale, Lisa Simpson and George Sandifer-Smith. Register here (and it's free!): t.co/fRzd7VI1nl

That’s it for now. Mince pies are waiting! Our project team is wishing you a lovely festive season! 🎄

Writing and Reading the Pandemic: Poems about Covid-19 Join us to find out about the ‘Writing and Reading the Pandemic' project and to hear three poets read from their work

2025 is the time to analyse data, and we’ll be sharing our findings continuously through the year. Our first stop is the poetry event held at Aston University on the 11th of January. Please sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-an...

Today we had our last meeting for the Writing and Reading the Pandemic project in 2024! In these 6 months, we achieved loads: generated reader-response data, met so many readers interested in Covid poetry, and put together a unique corpus of Covid poems 📖

<em>Journal of Marriage and Family</em> | NCFR Family Science Journal | Wiley Online Library Objective This article examines whether domestic cognitive labor functions like other forms of domestic labor as a means to “do gender.” Background Domestic cognitive labor is increasingly concept.....

🧠👩‍👦Household mental load: 71% on mums

A new study reveals mums handle 71% of the 'invisible' thinking work at home, from meal planning to childcare. Dads focus more on occasional tasks like finances.

Why does this mental load still divide by gender?

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#SciComm #Parenting 🧪

Just did the final reading group for the Writing and Reading the Pandemic project! Really enjoyed listening to our participants' discussions of covid poetry written by Lisa Simpson, Jamie Hale, Jackie Kay, and George Sandifer-Smith. Sign up to our free poetry event on the 11th of Jan to learn more:

Thanks for joining the talk! 🙏

My #ASRG talk on ekphrasis as a contemporary creative writing practice is tomorrow! If your 4-5pm is free, sign up here: t.co/FUGRf4R0Y5

Excited to be talking about my research on ekphrasis as a creative writing practice as part of the ASRG seminar series at
Aston! The seminar is on Wed 4th Dec 4-5 on Teams. Register here: t.co/FUGRf4R0Y5

Great! Listening for my next run sorted 👀

Plastic: Unwrapped - Professor Joanna Gavins - Off The Shelf This podcast explores our relationship with one of the most ubiquitous and controversial materials on the planet: plastic. Over three episodes, Professor Joanna Gavins talks to experts from a range of...

Our new podcast, Plastic: Unwrapped, is available now! I had so much fun making this for the Off the Shelf festival. Three 20-minute episodes, unwrapping our relationship with one of the most ubiquitous and controversial materials on earth. Give it a listen! offtheshelf.org.uk/event/plasti...

So happy for you - congratulations! ❤️

New Beginnings: To celebrate the Pre-Raphaelite Society joining BlueSky, some depictions of beautiful blue skies by Edward Burne-Jones.

#preraphaelite #preraphaelites #preraphaelitism #victorian #art #arthistory #edwardburnejones

Ethical practice in participant-centred linguistic research This article outlines ethical principles for ‘participant-centred linguistic research’ (PCLR), a term we coin to incorporate a range of linguistic research approaches that place importance on the invo...

Out today with @jaimackenzie.bsky.social & Sarah Atkins! We considered the ethical challenges of doing participant-centred research in linguistics, thinking beyond the formal ethics review process by drawing on our own - quite different - experiences in the field. www.degruyter.com/document/doi...