An opportunity to get involved in one of our 3rd year trainee research studies 🤩

Are you a parent of a primary school child or a primary school teacher? Could you spare a few minutes to complete a questionnaire for one of our BA students researching the impact of PE in reducing obesity?   Parent: app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/northampton/…    Teacher: app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/northampton/…

⭐ Update: Call for engagement in group conversations taking place in Ontario, Canada in May! These conversations are now Hybrid and contributions can be either in person or online. Please fill in this form to express an interest or contact me via email: forms.office.com/e/AN1AWZ7zdF

1. When reading stories and poems, it is important not just to analyse them; they are experiences - rather magical experiences that make us feel as if they are real, as if we are part of the story (the experience lights up those parts of the brain as if it is actually happening).

Please support one of our final year BA Primary Education students with her dissertation research focussed on teaching children with autism in mainstream settings - app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/northampton/… #edutwitter #teachertwitter

Please support one of final year students with her dissertation research 👇👇👇

Please support one of our amazing final year BA Primary Education students with their dissertation research on teacher perceptions of permanent exclusions in primary schools in England #teachertwitter #edutwitter 👇👇👇👇 app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/northampton/…

I normally only use this account for research and teaching-related posts, but I'm putting this one up as I'm pretty proud ☺️ Won my charity boxing match last Friday and raised a couple of hundred £s for the Northampton Saints Foundation in the process. Thanks to everyone who donated ☺️

Absolutely love leading on this module. Let the dissertation marking season begin!

Another podcast done! Book Talk: The Animals in That Country by Laura Jean McKay @laurajeanmckay podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ljdev…

The New Routledge Companion to Science Fiction is now up on Google Books, featuring a chapter on #MedicalHumanities from Gavin Miller and I, among many other fascinating entries #sciencefiction google.co.uk/books/edition/…

I'm hosting a conference on Reproduction and Speculative Cultures Lancaster University in October, please consider submitting a paper! Both online and in-person options available #CfP #medicalhumanities #sciencefiction

Another podcast episode done - research talk on The Animals in That Country by @laurajeanmckay Thanks to The BSLS for letting me contribute to the project! open.spotify.com/show/5ShSArlMn…

Very proud of the Y1 trainees making such a good impression on their first school visits this morning as part of the brand new phonics ITAP 👏

📢 Exciting day at UniofNorthampton! Our iQTS mentors are training face-to-face, getting ready to support our Thailand trainees starting in January! 🌏🎓 Preparing mentors to empower future teachers globally! #iQTS #TeacherTraining #Mentorship #Thailand PrimaryEd UON Uni of Northampton Health, Education & Society

Call for Papers! Please spread the word. The next #englishsharedfutures will be in York, from July 3rd-5th. We've got lots of great events and special sessions planned, and warmly welcome submissions. englishsharedfutures.org/cfp #cfp

This week's In the news is out. #UON media coverage includes: ✅ Our economic impact on the town, county and further afield ✅ Why English Literature is great to study/Laura-Jane Devanny ✅ Student Ben Grundy discusses the headlines on BBC Radio 5 Live...and more! northampton.ac.uk/news/in-the-ne…

Check out this new publication by my brilliant colleague Tracey Redwood shieldcrest.co.uk/product/power-…

If any primary teachers could help out one of our 3rd year dissertations by completing this questionnaire, that would be great!

What a fantastic conference today on RfP, organised by the wonderful Roade English Hub So much useful info to take back to our ITT students at PrimaryEd UON... still a bit starstruck after meeting Teresa Cremin and Michael Rosen 🤩 #readingforpleasure #reading #rfp #literacy