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Corpus Linguistics Course Week 1
This week I started a FutureLearn/Lancaster University course on Corpus Linguistics (CL). It runs for 8 weeks and is much more work than any of the previous FutureLearn courses that I have undertaken, so whether I’ll get to the end of it remains to be seen. But the course leader suggests that once we get…
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New Starts part 2
Last week I wrote about the first of my two small research projects, so this week I want to introduce the second: Fake News and Facts in Topical Ballads. This will be a digital humanities project which will use corpus data analysis to look at the links between ballad and pamphlet news. Shakespeare’s ballad-seller Autolycus…
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New Starts part 1
The new academic year is approaching fast and things are changing. While I wait to hear what work I’ve got and where, I’ve been getting on with my own research. Several of my projects are almost at an end, so I need to work out which of my projects to dive into next. There are…
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Jigs
A couple of years ago I was sitting in the British Library calling up various documents that might be ballad-related, when I came across John Balshaw’s Jig. What really captured my interest was the fact that Balshaw apparently wrote the piece in Brindle, Lancashire, in 1660. Now Brindle is a little place near Chorley, and…
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Re-blogged from The Research Whisperer: Stitching together an intellectual life
Stitching together an intellectual life Stitching together an intellectual life — Read on researchwhisperer.org/2019/08/20/stitching-together-an-intellectual-life/
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Repost – Una McIlvenna: Getting Emotional…
Thought I’d just post a link to a really interesting piece by Una McIlvenna, about her experience of finding some previously undocumented ballads while teaching a class in Melbourne. https://www.objectsandemotions.org/blog/getting-emotional-about-handling-a-cache-of-early-modern-print
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Good news
Just a quick post to say that an article based on my paper at the Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference in Maynooth last year has been accepted for publication by Renaissance Studies, and that the Musici Trust has given me funding to have some digital images created of different examples of sixteenth century printed music…
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Emotional responses to music
It’s probably a couple of years since I last undertook an online course with FutureLearn, but a few weeks ago I signed up for a short course from Griffith University called Music Psychology: Why Does “Bohemian Rhapsody” Feel so Good? It was a simple introduction to some of the basic principles of music psychology, and…
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From Inside Higher Ed: Study finds female professors experience more work demands
Study finds female professors experience more work demands and special favor requests, particularly from academically “entitled” students. — Read on www.insidehighered.com/news/2018/01/10/study-finds-female-professors-experience-more-work-demands-and-special-favor
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It’s like asking how you are…
…no-one really wants to know the true answer. At least that’s what my fiend said when I told him a few months ago that I’d decided to be honest about my precarity. Well, maybe people don’t, but maybe we should tell them more often. One of the difficult situations that I face when attending conferences…
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