Do you work on austerity/ everyday life/ family futures/ life courses/ oral history in North East England? Do you have any papers/books/reports I should read? Fancy a cuppa&chat when I visit? Starting fieldwork in a new place is scary-any help/advice much appreciated please. 🙆

I've been busy tracking and colouring time inspired by Laura Vanderkam and @_ted_hunt. Not surprisingly it turns out that tracking time is a technology for discipline as much as self-knowledge timehack.co.uk/timemanagement….

Off to Morgan Centre at Manchester university for first presentation on Leverhulme project exploring the relational qualities of busyness using Mass Observation one day diaries The Leverhulme Trust Mass Observation

Limited PhD bursaries available for our Creative Approaches to Qual. Research week-long course @methodsmcr Summer School 1-5 July ow.ly/Y6p130nBmpr Helen Holmes @VanessaLKMay Andy Balmer Prof Sarah Marie Hall Laura Fenton @stephenhicks66 @James_N_Hodgson prof sophie woodward

The challenges of doing auto-ethnography and how counting can help timehack.co.uk/selfhelp/the-i… Mark Lucherini @LDikomitis Prof Sarah Marie Hall

You are braver than you think and (auto) fiction can provide a way forward to depersonalise the personal in auto-ethnography

A proud day - off to vote for the first time with my daughter, and no I have not told her who to vote for. Though only just remembered that it is today which sums up the state of these local elections...

EVERYONE SHOULD READ THIS!!!!

Replying more thoughtfully to @michael_gratzke about how to 'craft' auto-ethnography through crochet and sewing @LDikomitis TamsinFisherResearch Prof Sarah Marie Hall Black Sheep Wools Linton Tweeds timehack.co.uk/crafting/craft…

Congratulations Maddy Thompson on your Leverhulme Fellowship. Very well deserved, it will be great to welcome you on board at Keele GGE.

I've been little quiet recently as I've been looking after my sister. Last visit she was better so I taught her to crochet. Listening to her swearing her frustration inspired me to write about why craft can be so frustrating: timehack.co.uk/crafting/craft… #crochet #scheepjes

Would be grateful for any RT: joyissoyellow.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/friend… I am looking for volunteers to be interviewed for a study on older women’s (above 65) friendship this coming August in London and Manchester area.

Very excited that my first paper on busyness has just been published, examining gender and self-help books in Gender, Place and Culture. Many thanks to Prof Sarah Marie Hall and @dratarrant for putting this special edition together #busy tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

It arrived! The pink book! There were times when I thought this day would never come. Thanks to everyone who got me over the line - too many to mention but you'll get a big hug when I see you next. And happy to report that the pictures turned out nice too - phew. 📚

Really excited to be part of Stoking Curiosity this Friday and Saturday to show Blankets: An exploration of crochet, care and time. The time for this is supported by The Leverhulme Trust

Last 6 months of The Leverhulme Trust fellowship and I'm launching a new website. Threading time is a space to think about the connections between sewing, time and memories threadingtime.co.uk