Save the dates! 🎉

The SWWDTP 2024 Summer Research Festival is taking place online from 5 - 6 June, with this year's theme being Home and Belonging.

Registration and full programme details coming soon!

Fantastic news!!! 🥳My amazing PhD student Rachel Hare has been selected for the European #3MT finals!!! Her 'Art of the Swoon' explores the meaning & gendering of faints in early modern literature & beyond. Watch this space! English@Bristol SWW DTP Bristol Doctoral College Coimbra Group

Today, I finally handed in the book bound copies of my #phd thesis. Feels very strange! Thanks to everyone who has supported & encouraged me along the way, and to SWW DTP for the funding! CUEnglishCommPhilos AberEnglishDept

Very pleased to have had my paper accepted for the 2024 SWW DTP Summer Research Festival - a deep dive into the margins of British Library Add. MS 16950 and Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Clm 23046, the Seligenthal Choirbooks, to unearth traces of the woman that made and used them.

I'm delighted to have passed my PhD viva Music at Southampton with minor corrections! Thank you to my wonderful supervisor Jeanice Brooks for all her support, and to the SWW DTP for funding 'From Caledonia to the Capital' - coming soon to an electronic repository near you...

Reminder! 🚨 There's only a few days remaining until the Summer Research Festival call for papers deadline.

Submit your papers for the theme 'Home and Belonging' by Monday at 11.59 PM 👇

Pleased to have a finalised programme for our online Work-in-Progress Workshop on 30th April!

Come hang out, hear a range of exciting papers, and share your thoughts with our presenters.

Programme & registration: docs.google.com/document/d/12k…

The call for papers for the 2024 #SWWDTP Summer Research Festival has been extended to Monday 29thApril at 11.59pm!

This year’s theme is ‘Home and Belonging’ and the festival will take place online from 5th– 6th June.

For more info, contact [email protected]

Bristol residents! SWWDTP student Alice Quigley has organised the following event with support from Cabot Institute for the Environment🏳️‍🌈✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽 :

📢 Alternatives in Action: From Doughnuts to Degrowth
📅 Thur 2 May, 1-2.30pm

Full details & booking : bit.ly/3xDFA9E

Last summer I had the privilege of being the student representative for the QAA National Benchmark on the teaching of Creative Writing in Higher Ed and met some brilliant colleagues. The benchmark is now available on
qaa.ac.uk/the-quality-co…
SWWDTP Southampton Institute for Arts and Humanities English at Soton

I am happy to announce my first (non-moving image) academic publication in JCMS Teaching Media journal. quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jcms/1826133… Thanks to SWW DTP Steve Presence and Kim Knowles for your support.

We'd like to say a huge congratulations to #SWWDTP student Charlotte Runcie (Charlotte Runcie) whose debut novel Bring The House Down will be published in summer 2025 by @boroughpress, Doubleday and @penguincanada 👏

thebookseller.com/rights/borough…

Excellent talk at Manchester’s Co-operative Archives this morning with cultural arts partner Pendle Radicals on the incredible history of the Co-operative movement. Mid Pennine Arts Co-operative Heritage Trust Jane Donaldson SWW DTP

excellent afternoon with Pendle Radicals members at Halifax Playhouse watching Warp and Weft by Michael Crowley. Great original play bringing together Chartist protest in 1842 and the story of pioneering socialist Ethel Carnie Holdsworth. Mid Pennine Arts Michael Crowley SWW DTP

If you're looking for a friendly place to discuss some ideas-in-progress, come and join!

If you'd like to read just one example of early 1970s women's grassroots activism among nightcleaners, and haven't heard of the wonderful May Hobbs, do have a read of my #WHM2024 blog below 👇

This online training session will touch upon issues such as imposter syndrome & loneliness - you will leave with some ideas and strategies to help you manage your own doctoral process.

💻 Register via inkpath : bit.ly/43cAOM0

SWW DTP Exeter History 💜✍️📜