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Alastair Owens
@AlastairHackney
Professor @QMULGeography. Chair of Trustees @The_GA. Researches Victorians, @UrbanVicarages, @StayHomeStories. Trustee @RaggedSchool. Likes figs. Own views.
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http://www.geog.qmul.ac.uk/staff/owensa.html 03-04-2009 07:53:24
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'The proportion of schools cutting spending on trips & outings (50%) ... is at the highest level since The Sutton Trust polling began in 2017'
This reflects Geographical Association & #geographyteachers experience & how reduction in fieldwork is more likely in schools serving disadvantaged pupils.
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Tomorrow is my last day working Medical Museion after almost five wonderful years on my postdoctoral project Body Time. I've written a short blog about doing history in an interdisciplinary environment involving scientific collaborations and curation: museion.ku.dk/en/blog/doing-…
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First day of ‘Expanding Victorian Studies’ conference Department of English at Royal Holloway has been excellent. Great papers, stimulating discussions, mind-expanding performance workshop, and cracking Sally Ledger Memorial Lecture by Adrian S. Wisnicki on Victorian Studies and Generative AI + moonlit Vicky
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All ready and looking forward to 2-day London Victorian Studies Colloquium 'Expanding Victorian Studies' at @RHUL (a nerve centre of Victorian Studies) tomorrow and Friday. Speaking on 'Victorian Inheritance' (my The Leverhulme Trust fellowship) and flying flag for QMUL Centre for 19C & Legacies #LVSC2024
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This afternoon QMUL School of Geography we celebrated Eid-al-Fitr with some sensational food and very good company #EidMubarak
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Great to start Queen Mary Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences Student Researcher Bursary project 'Dr Barnardo's East London' in collaboration with Ragged School Museum Museum to create app-based walking tour. The very talented Geographer Inayah Uddin is our researcher. We took in our first site close to the museum!
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Building momentum for #HackneyHalf in five weeks’ time. Check out my run on Strava.
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Job opportunity Geographical Association. We're looking for FT & PT writer/s from July 2024 to support our KS3 work with Oak National Academy . To discuss/apply contact Elaine Anderson [email protected]
More info on geography.org.uk/ks3-geography-…
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Great article. If only I still taught #QMULDurham — it would be assigned reading! #GeographyTeacher
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Late opportunity (Deadline TOMORROW 11 April) The The Open University 'Amar bari, amar jibon' (My home, my life) project working with Bangladeshi elders in east London is looking for Professional Stakeholder Engagement and Impact Lead (20 days over 2 years) housinglin.org.uk/_assets/Resour…
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