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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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Blended Learning Essentials – Embedding Practice Week 3
Frustratingly, this course is giving me all sorts of ideas that I would love to put into practice but I can’t because the course I teach on isn’t mine. I just hope that by the time I have a post in which I can run my own course and apply these ideas, I haven’t forgotten…
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Singing Across the Channel Conference, Canterbury
Next week, I will be singing and speaking at the singingacrossthechannel conference in Canterbury. I’ve now finished writing my paper and I’m really looking forward to it, as it gives me the opportunity to carry out an experiment in ballad singing that I think will be quite useful. I’ll tell you more about it soon. The…
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Pilgrims and travelling
As it’s Christmas, I thought I’d share a photo of my desktop Christmas tree, which has grown a bit since last year. I bought it a new pot as a present. I am, as usual, incredibly busy. It never seems to stop. Even when I find myself saying ‘things should ease off next week’, or…
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Blended Learning Essentials – Embedding Practice Week 2
The second week of the Future Learn Blended Learning Essentials course involved several video tutorials on how to use Moodle more effectively, which was very useful as I’ve never quite managed to get myself to a Moodle course. I had no idea that Moodle provided such varied tools for helping students to learn, rather than…
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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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Video, eo, eo
Sorry for the naff title, which I nabbed from a song from my all-time favourite film, but over the last couple of days video seems to have been one of the twin centres of my life. On Friday, I will speak at the Mary I conference in London the conference, but I won’t actually be…
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Summer holidays with history
After being rather unwell at the beginning of 2016, I decided that this summer I would spend as much time on holiday as I could. This was only made possible by the fact that we have access to a caravan that is currently in Oban, and we have a trailer tent, and it meant that…
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Marine Lives and the way we conduct research
Back at the beginning of July, I chatted via Skype to Colin Greenstreet of the Marine Lives project about how I do my research. It was one of a number of interviews that Colin carried out so that the project leaders could tweak the functionality of their database in order to make it as useful…
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