Session 2 of 3 for the 'Good Writing, Gender and the Gap Intervention' this week. It was fabulous to hear how the action plans from session one have been enacted in schools.

When writing success criteria goes wrong “Children read stories, poems and letters differently when they see these texts as things they themselves could produce…” – Frank Smith writing4pleasure.com/2023/05/12/whe…

It was great to hear about the brilliant work done in schools in the final 'Good Writing, Gender and the Gap' session this week. Well done to all the fabulous teachers and their classes for their hard work.

Thank you to everyone who came to our #UKLA2023 conference presentation ‘Gap-Minding, Gap-Closing, Gap-Worrying: Addressing the ‘gender-gap’ in primary children’s writing’ and to Kristi for the photos too!

A report was presented to the Committee on 26th July 2022 in relation to the gender gap in children’s writing. It was agreed a further report would be presented to the Committee summarising the overall findings. You can read the new report here: councillors.liverpool.gov.uk/documents/s293…

In Liverpool, this gap is a concern as outcomes for key stage two writing attainment are in the lowest 10% nationally. University of Liverpool & Liverpool Hope University carried out research as part of the wider Writing Over Time Project You can see their findings at: councillors.liverpool.gov.uk/documents/s293…

It was our pleasure to present the findings of our recent work with Liverpool primary schools at Education, Employment and Skills Scrutiny Committee last night. Liverpool City Council Thank you for having us and for your questions/comments.

...Victorina and Liz will be attending 2024 Liverpool Year of Writing at Central Library this Saturday 20th January from 1-4pm talking about their research... LivLitCycle

A fabulous afternoon celebrating ‘Good Writing, Gender and ‘the Gap’’ at the launch of The Year of Writing LivLitCycle Barbara Murray 🌹 Liverpool Hope University Liverpool Hope ITE Partnership LiverpoolHopeEducation English Department University of Liverpool News #livlitcycle #liverpoolwrites

Writing Over Time Project

Here are sone of our #LiverpoolWrites exhibitors from Saturday’s launch event at Liverpool Central Library and Archives

🎉 Congratulations to Luke O’Loughlin, the winner of our Liverpool Writes launch day poetry competition! 🎉The judge of the competition, Levi Tafari, thought that Luke’s entry was fabulous. Here it is…

Research assistant vacancy. Come work with us on our impact acceleration project "towards a more inclusive English language teaching in Merseyside and beyond" Writing Over Time Project my.corehr.com/pls/ulivrecrui…

...#LiverpoolSpeaks radio session tomorrow Liverpool Live Radio with Roy Basnett and guests Dr. Elizabeth Parr & Victorina Gonzalez-Diaz...we will be talking with them about their Writing Over Time Project...don't forget to listen in from 11am to 12pm...Writing Over Time Project LivLitCycle

Thank you for having us on your radio show this morning. It was fantastic to speak with you about our research. Barbara Murray 🌹 Liverpool Live Radio Roy Basnett University of Liverpool Liverpool Hope University

It was wonderful to be back on the radio this morning with Barbara Murray 🌹 and Roy Basnett Liverpool Live Radio talking about our writing research University of Liverpool English Department Liverpool John Moores University