Researching and writing about audiences in HE; art historian; academic developer; blessed with great colleagues!
London, England
Joined June 2009
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Helpful analysis of current crisis from @Stephen_Beer Government, gilts and growth: the Bank of England’s dilemma thearticle.com/government-gi…
Friday I bounced up the stairs wondering how to do the marathon. Monday, I'm bouncing from the marathon & wondering how to do the stairs! I ran to raise funds for @childrensociety because they lobby for children and give them hope. Plse give if you can: justgiving.com/fundraising/g…
Was just looking at #hilarymantel's 'A Place of Greater Safety' and thinking it's next on my list of stuff to read, when I saw she had passed away. Very sad. Her Cromwell trilogy was astonishing, from the opening sentence to the closing words.
Great to hear @ninapearlman talk about @UCL_Culture work using augmented reality for better engagement with UCL collections!
'One of the hardest things to learn is that the sincerity of our intentions is no guarantee of the purity of our practice' (adapted from Stephen Brookfield). As a parent I learned this pretty quickly. As a teacher, I only just found out.
No more @Shell petrol for me. BBC News - Shell defends 'difficult' decision to buy Russian crude oil
bbc.co.uk/news/business-6063…
I enjoyed this: 'Up betimes, and down to chamber, without putting on clean linen, thinking only to keep to my chamber to do business today; but I find that I was not fully awake or ready to do business, and so was fain to go up again and dress myself' - Samuel Pepys #wfh1667
Rules about kits are made for a reason but @premierleague has got this one badly wrong #NoHomeKit
To paraphrase my esteemed colleague @jennyagriffiths, this work is the fruit of a lockdown well used! Stop-motion LEGO® animations for learning linear algebra tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
A helpful guide for new students in Bloomsbury from @Warburg_News: see warburg.sas.ac.uk/blog/top-t…
Even the pre-pandemic me didn't travel much (sadly) but I'm delighted with this news: @UCL expands opportunities for sustainable travel | Sustainable UCL - UCL – University College London ucl.ac.uk/sustainable/news/2…
If you change your flight with @British_Airways they may shrewdly read out the cost digit by digit. PLEASE ask them to read it out AS A NUMBER too!! (Or pay a fortune like my friend Mark Meynell): markmeynell.net/2021/09/29/a…
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Looking for something to do this weekend? @CarlaWashbourne will be onsite at St Giles Ruins in Maldon for this year's @heritageopenday, where you can learn more about disease, medicine and hospitals in the Middle Ages! #HODs
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Excited to share this with everyone!
A short film introducing the Survey of London, covering its history, the evolution of its approaches over time, and current work from the @BartlettArchUCL: youtube.com/watch?v=Gtt2Fp2n…. Edited and produced by Lynn Qian.
Really pleased to see this new article from @eringriffey at @AucklandUni on continuity between pre1649 and post1660. Restoring Henrietta Maria’s English Household in the 1660s: Continuity, Kinship and Clientage tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1…
Congratulations to @UCLSpecColl awarded Archive Service Accreditation status - great achievement! ucl.ac.uk/library/news/2021/…
Great new blog post from @UCLDigiEd's @CliveYoungUCL. It's SO IMPORTANT to signpost the most important tasks and signal how much time students should spend on them. blogs.ucl.ac.uk/digital-educ…