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Looking forward to presenting some of my preliminary PhD findings at the GradNet Southampton Conference later today. I'm looking at ethos in Catholic schools and the sense of belonging.

We've just had some fantastic papers on the theme of 'Covid', from the impact upon BAME NHS professionalisms, to mapping happiness in spatial communities in Edinburgh! Incredibly captivating presentations so far!

Our next panel broadly focused on 'Identity' is kicking off now! Starting with Alina Kamalova discussing 'Development of Identities in Family Conversations: Discourse Analysis in Russian talk shows'!

After an incisive and thoroughly detailed paper by Alina, we are followed with a presentation on 'Blurring the Online and Offline: Digital connectivity as consciousness-raising within feminist activism against street harassment' by Frankie Morgan.

Many thanks to Frankie for her powerful and harrowing paper. We conclude the 'Identity' panel with May Toudic from the University of Aberdeen's presentation on 'Queering History: Literary Re-vision and the LGBTQ+ Community'.

Our last panel of the day 'Edcuation' is starting shortly with Attallah Alanazi who is talking about 'Language Ideologies and Identities: Saudi University Students’ views of English as a Lingua Franca'.

Many thanks to Attallah for his fascinating talk. Next in our Education panel is Esther Cummins, who is presenting a paper titled 'Researching the ethos of Catholic schools using Bourdieu's thinking tool of cultural capital: What do stakeholders need to feel that they belong?'

After a really interesting talk by Esther, our last paper of the day is by Ahmad Hamdi, who is presenting on the title: 'Sensitizing Language Teachers towards the Process of Materials Evaluation for English Language Teaching'.

That's it for today! We've had loads of fascinating papers covering a variety of topics, and have a whole bunch more lined up for tomorrow! Many thanks for all those taking part so far, hopefully we'll see you all tomorrow!

We are due to start the second day of the GradNet 2021 Conference shortly! We have loads of exciting papers to listen to, so if you'd like to join do get in touch and we will send you an invite!

We've just concluded our 'Music' panel with two excellent papers from Alexandra Huang, and Nakul and Namita Krishnamurthy, which was followed by a detailed and lengthy discussion on the divinity within music. Up after the break is our panel on 'Language'! Stay tuned!

We've had an excellent discussions after a thought provoking panel on language, but it will shortly be time for our final panel broadly on the Early Modern Period!

And that's a wrap everybody! We closed with some excellent papers and a detailed discussion about a variety of Early Modern topics. Thank you to all the panelists for such thought provoking papers, we hope to see them all in print soon! Watch this space!

I’m so excited that my first journal article is out in the world! Massive thank you to GradNet Southampton and the editors and reviewers who made it such an enjoyable process!