Category: teaching
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The day I nearly be-headed the department…
It was great fun to teach on the Edge Hill Summer Residential this year. It’s aimed at students between years 12 and 13 who are thinking of applying to do history at university (it’s one strand of a wider programme of summer residdentials for different subjects). There were two and half days of academic input,…
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Visit to the Walker Art Gallery
Teaching at Edge Hill gave me my first opportunity to take students on a field trip – we went to the Walker Art Gallery, where Elizabeth Newell, a blue badge guide from Liverpool Tour Guide Services, took us round several of the galleries. Obviously, we concentrated on the sixteenth and seventeenth century galleries, because that’s…
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Over the next hill
When your wheels are burning up the miles and you’re wearing down shoe leather, When your face is frozen in a smile and the road goes on forever, Forever, forever, the road goes on forever, Over the next hill maybe there’s good weather.” (Steve Tilston) That song seemed to have been specially written for the…
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Teaching the Twentieth Century
My portfolio career is such that among my teaching is an introductory module for Liverpool Hope University on twentieth century Europe. This is ‘flipped learning’ course, where the students access recorded lectures and course materials via the course moodle and then attend seminars and tutorials ready to discuss the issues that they’ve come across. Last…
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Lancaster Castle
Back in February, as part of the Embodiment and New Materialism conference in Lancaster, I was part of a drama workshop which took place in Lancaster Castle. It was somewhere that I’d been intending to visit for a long time, but had somehow never got around to it. So over the Easter break, we all…
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Happy Marking Day
I have a confession to make… I quite enjoy marking. There. I said it aloud. I know we all moan about marking – grading papers is laborious and can take up a lot of time, especially if you have a lot of students. But actually, there are several aspects of it that I enjoy. One…
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November news
Last Friday saw the publication of my first full length, peer-reviewed article, Verse Epitaphs and the Memorialisation of Women in Reformation England, commissioned by Liz Oakley-Brown when she was editor of the Renaissance section of Literature Compass. I’m happy to say that it comes with its own teaching and learning guide, as well as supporting…
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Blended Learning Essentials – Embedding Practice Week 1
Before the summer vacation I completed the FutureLearn Blended Learning Essentials – Getting Started course, so when it finished I thought it probably made sense to sign up for the follow-up course on Embedding Practice. As someone who teaches on a blended learning degree course delivered by Liverpool Hope University through Holy Cross College in…
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