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…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…