Category: Blog
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What’s the point of my literature review?
Hello! My supervisors asked me to put together a couple of paragraphs describing what I’m hoping to get out of my literature review. I’ll be discussing it with them this afternoon, but I also wanted to share it here. Partly to get suggestions from all of you on what I’m missing, partly in the hope…
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Women’s Safety from Male Violence – A Societal Issue With Resonance Across Our Universities
As with many individuals and organisations, SGSSS wished to show our solidarity around the issue of women’s safety from gendered violence and, in particular, to highlight the specific connections to the places where we work and study. To this end, we have commissioned a blog from Professor Michele Burman to reflect on the most pressing…
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Hitting the Yellow Brick Road! Designing My Happy City: Playground
The government’s road map in controlling the global pandemic, promises easing the restrictions on outdoor activities in spring. I am particularly looking forward to re-bonding with nature without the shadow of currently-necessary restrictions looming over my head. A research project that I led last year before the pandemic, highlights the significance of nature in our…
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Planning, Papers and Protective Isolation: The life of a PhD student in 2020
One of the benefits (read: curses) of having to work from home for an extended period of time is that your breakfasts, lunchtimes, mid-morning and afternoon breaks, your post-lunch coffees, your inspiration/exasperation-driven “pauses for thought”, the odd boring meeting etc. can be punctuated with a spot of light-hearted television. (Note to supervisors: That paper is…
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Turnitin Does Not Detect Plagiarism
Using Turnitin as a Positive Tool for Formative Assessment Ref: https://acdev.orgdev.coventry.domains/application/files/2715/6293/3552/J282-19_The-Coventry-Way-eBook_V7.pdf [accessed 26.10.20] Aims and rationale: The use of Turnitin as a tool within Higher Education has been growing for many years. Alongside this, however, a culture of fear has been growing among students that they will somehow be caught out by the software and…
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279 Days & Counting; Im 10yrs old and these are my words
We are not going to lose We fight you on the streets We fight you everywhere we go We have our masks, we have our bleach We are not afraid of you, unseen enemy You’re not the only one who can hide You can hide in plain sight We can hide in our homes We…
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Disrupting hierarchies in school-based reading: a conference paper
Presentation to the Educational Inequalities Conference, Erasmus MaCE, University of Cumbria, 4&5 June, 2020 Introduction My name is Jess Anderson and I am doing a Collaborative ESRC-funded PhD with Renfrewshire Council, in Scotland. I’m based in the School of Education at the University of Strathclyde. I’ve worked in education, particularly literacy education, for the last…
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The Blogging Learning Curve
Hey, if you are reaching this first sentence you must want to learn more about blogging; or you’ve read my writing before and I just spark something you enjoy. It occurred to me this week, people may actually read my material because they absolutely hate the things I write about and/or the way that I…
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Popcorn popping on the apricot tree: the blossoms during Covid-19
Parents were asked, ‘Does anyone who chose to use schools feel their children have blossomed whilst learning at home?’. Within less than 24hrs there were over 200 responses. Within 48hrs over 400 responses. The question asked parents to reflect upon the last 5 months and identify if anything had changed since lockdown forced education back…
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13 & in Lockdown
The Teenager Living with Covid-19 Living in lockdown as a home-schooled 13yr old. “Lockdown, a word that, just last year, had a very different meaning. Now, when people hear the word ‘lockdown’ they think of social distancing, they think of the vulnerable who are shielding, and they think of the global pandemic. For me, lockdown…