Professor Angela Smith has recently had an article published in the George Orwell Studies Journal. In her article, Angela looks at the context of Eileen O’Shaughnessy’s education at Sunderland Church High School, and argues that the progressive head teacher, Miss Ethel Ironside, was partly responsible for Eileen’s future life as wife and editor of Orwell’s… Continue reading Eileen O’Shaughnessy and George Orwell
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COVID-19 government health posters
Professor Angela Smith and Dr Michael Higgins have recently had a paper published in Discourse, Context & Media. Their paper explores the semiotic properties of the UK government’s health information posters dealing with face coverings during the first year of the pandemic. They find that the changing political and scientific landscape is reflected in the… Continue reading COVID-19 government health posters
Safe in the City? Female students’ experiences of urban landscapes
Dr Matthew Durey, Dr Nicola Roberts, and Professor Catherine Donovan (Durham University) contributed a chapter entitled ‘Negotiating landscapes of (un)safety: atmospheres and ambivalence in female students’ everyday geographies’ to the recently published collection Landscapes of Hate: Tracing Spaces, Relations and Responses published by Bristol University Press. This chapter reflects on qualitative data from a survey… Continue reading Safe in the City? Female students’ experiences of urban landscapes
Innovative approaches to involving children with SEND in research: exploring a participatory research study
This blog post highlights and explores a piece of research enabled by the University’s participatory research fund, conducted by myself (Dr Helen Benstead), Vicki Jowett and Vicky Graham who work across the MA Education and MA SEND programmes in the School of Education. The research focused on trialing a specific set of innovatively designed qualitative… Continue reading Innovative approaches to involving children with SEND in research: exploring a participatory research study
Student Safety and Campus Security
By Dr. Nicola Roberts The second article from the ‘student safety and campus security’ research has been published by Dr Nicola Roberts on ‘the dark and desolate campus: what can be done to enhance students’ perceptions of safety on-campus’? With Emerald Publishing in the Safer Communities journal: DOI https://doi.org/10.1108/SC-01-2022-0006. The implications of the findings point… Continue reading Student Safety and Campus Security
Launch of the Portal Podcast
The Portal Podcast: Bringing Academia to Social Work Practice Dr. Sarah Lonbay and Dr. Lesley Deacon We are delighted to announce that the very episode of ‘The Portal Podcast: Bringing Academia to Social Work Practice’ is now available. When working in frontline practice having the time for, and access to, current research can be difficult.… Continue reading Launch of the Portal Podcast
The makings of an exclusive community: Students’ perceptions of dangerous others
Dr. Nicola Roberts Further to the blog posted on 1 October 2020, the first article from the ‘student safety and campus security’ research has been published on ‘the makings of an exclusive community: students’ perceptions of dangerous others’, published with @SpringerNature in Higher Education international journal. The implications for HEIs are important! The paper argues… Continue reading The makings of an exclusive community: Students’ perceptions of dangerous others
Creating a digital front door to primary care in the city of Sunderland
About the Project Overview: This PhD research project will be instrumental in creating a patient information portal that provides an alternative route of access to General Practice in the city of Sunderland. Taking a user-centred design perspective and using techniques from methods such as Design Thinking, the researcher will engage with a variety of stakeholders including… Continue reading Creating a digital front door to primary care in the city of Sunderland
Sage Encyclopaedia of Journalism
Angela Smith has recently had an entry published in the updated Sage Encyclopaedia of Journalism. Her entry, on Tabloid Television, has been updated from the first edition of the Encyclopaedia.
MRC funding opportunity launch
Expressions of Interest for MRC Equipment funding Medical Research Council (MRC), are pleased to announce the recent launch of their funding opportunity ‘Expression of interest: purchase mid-range equipment for biomedical research: MRC Equip – UKRI’. MRC is inviting Expressions of Interest for an Equipment Funding Opportunity, for items of equipment above £100k. The MRC contribution… Continue reading MRC funding opportunity launch