Very excited that my PhD student Samantha Phiri is delivering her first lecture tmrw on Yomi Adegoke's The List. She'll be talking about her research into social death and disability in the digital age - dazzling work by one of Postgrad Research in the Humanities at Wolves's brilliant new scholars.

Today, 80 Ukrainian writers are fighting at the front. 30 writers have been killed, including contributor to #writingunderfire Victoria Amelina. The inhumanity and injustice must stop. The voices of Ukrainians must be heard. Please buy bit.ly/3Odzyly

Today my brilliant colleague R. M. Francis is delivering creative writing sessions in 2 Kent prisons for the Arts Council England funded Big Bookshare pilot project, a follow-on impact project for the Arts and Humanities Research Council funded Novel Perceptions project. Partly based on @[email protected]'s LEON...

Check out this major opportunity 👇🏿 to upskill yourself digitally. We're be using AntConc and R to analyse corpora. Don't be afraid.... even I can do this stuff... 🤓

Interested in using new technologies for literary research?

In collaboration with CLS INFRA | @[email protected] & CLARIN UK, Postgrad Research in the Humanities at Wolves stages the UK's first ever Computational Literary Studies Training School.

It's your chance to upskill w/ pioneering scholars.

Details: bit.ly/3vcN3vl

I'm delighted that UK Parliamentary Committee on the future of news has accepted my team's C-TRUTH research into fake news. I hope the inquiry will help strengthen the media landscape and built trust in impartial news providers. See: committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidenc…

‘Reading is so sexy’: gen Z turns to physical books and libraries theguardian.com/books/2024/feb…

👇🏿*not*-*to*-*be*-*missed*👇🏿

Check out the below opportunity to put the Black Country on the map.

As Bas Groes @basgroes.bsky.social says, this is a lovely piece by Disabled PhDStudent on tiktok, about Wolverhampton, and Bas's event at the recent Wolverhampton Literature Festival.
We have both Dr Denise Saul's beautiful poetry, The Room Between Us, and Bas Groes's highly original stroke memoir Right in the Head in stock.

#WritingUnderFire is now available to buy if anyone is interested! Reminder that sales help support the rebuilding of Ukrainan libraries....
waterstones.com/book/writing-u… cc Waterstones Bas Groes @basgroes.bsky.social Kerry Hadley-Pryce (Dr. KHP) R. M. Francis Dr Kuli Kohli

Here's a lovely TikTok that captures what Emma Astra calls 'a great connective experience' - the storytelling after brain trauma even a while ago. And a great write up of the city of Wolverhampton as well! tiktok.com/@disabledphdst…

And of course huge thanks to all the fantastic writers & performers who made it such a fun & fascinating #WolvesLitFest !
Our displays remain in store featuring lots of beautiful books from the events, many of them signed by their authors! @sathnam Robin Ince 💙 Josie Long manifesting the baby sleeping through James O'Brien

Lovely to be part of #writingunderfire with Bas Groes @basgroes.bsky.social Kerry Hadley-Pryce (Dr. KHP) Dr Kuli Kohli and Carmel Doohan last night for Wolverhampton Literature Festival . A moving event launching a moving book

Yesterday I spent a wonderful afternoon with the Wolverhampton Stroke Support Group doing creative writing exercises- come along today at the Wolves Art Gallery to do more of this stuff. wolvesliteraturefestival.co.uk/events/right-i…

The Humanities - despite the attempts by the Tories to kill off critical and creative writing - leading the way forward. wlv.ac.uk/research/resea…

WLV academic Bas Groes @basgroes.bsky.social has joined forces with Ukrainian and Black Country writers to publish a unique collection of writing that reflects on the impact on the country in the two years since the war started. The launch will take part as part of Wolverhampton Literature Festival.

More info 👉…

#ClsInfraTraining School: ExplorCor in Vienna is receiving lots of good applications! Apply now to explore:
➡️Finding & evaluating literary texts
➡️'Programmable Corpora' concept
➡️APIs and Linked Data (LOD)
🗓️Closing 15 Feb
✍️pretix.eu/CLSINFRA-train…