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Playing the academic game
Originally posted on The Research Whisperer: Dr Dani Barrington is a Research Fellow in Water Engineering for Developing Countries at Cranfield University, and an Honorary Fellow at The University of Queensland. Her work focuses on water, s16anitation and hygiene (#WASH); check out a video of the cool “Reinvented Toilet” she’s working on nowadays. She tweets at @Dani_Barrington.…
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NWEMS Manchester
At the end of April, I gave a short paper to the North West Early Modern Seminar at the John Rylands Library in Manchester. There were lots of other interesting speakers and it was lovely to catch up with some of my Manchester friends, (especially Ros Oates and Sasha Handley, who both, at different times,…
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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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Embodiment and New Materialism Part 2
Over the weekend of 25-26 February 2017, I attended a conference in Lancaster which looked at new materialist approaches to the pre-modern period: ‘Embodiment and New Materialism in Premodern Literature and Culture 1350-1700’. Having already blogged about the first day of the conference, I thought it was time to share my recollections of the second.…
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Embodiment and New Materialism Part 1
Over the weekend of 25-26 February 2017, I attended a conference in Lancaster which looked at new materialist approaches to the pre-modern period: ‘Embodiment and New Materialism in Premodern Literature and Culture 1350-1700’. The first day of the conference was held in the lovely city of Lancaster itself, at Lancaster Castle and the Storey Institute.…
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Academics with chameleons
I don’t spend a lot of time on Twitter, but I have noticed the hashtag ‘academics with cats’. Cats are a big thing on Twitter. Personally, I’m not keen on cats – they interfere with the birds and shrews in my garden and leave behind unpleasant deposits that threaten my children’s health. So I’ve started…
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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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Patricia Fumerton on Moving Media
At the end of January, I happened to be down in London for a Historical Association committee meeting, so I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to go to the London Renaissance Seminar in order to hear Patricia Fumerton talk about ‘Moving Media, Tactical Publics – The British Broadside Ballad in Early Modern England’. I was…
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Singing Across the Channel
In early January, I was privileged to be invited to speak at the singing across the channel workshop at the University of Kent. I travelled down the morning before the conference, passing through King’s Cross Station on the way. Now, I must have done that before, but I can’t remember ever noticing the architecture in…
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Oxford Seminar
Back in November, I was privileged to be invited to give a paper at the Oxford University Early Modern Britain Seminar Series. It was a truly amazing experience, not just to give a paper in such opulent surroundings but also in the questions that were raised about my research – as someone who researches mainly…
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