Siren
Creative Writing miniseries:
Luke McWilliams wrote this story which was generated from an in-class prompt. The students came up with eight random sentences and then choose two. The two sentences they'd chosen were to be the first and last line of their story. The exercise was about teaching structure and the usefulness of having a roadmap/sense of direction when writing.
Creative Writing vs Animal Crossing: Dealing with Stress During Lockdown
Creative Writing miniseries:
This is the first of three posts this week focusing on Creative Writing. Sally Gales, author of this post, held a class series on Creative Writing and has written a post on how it has helped her cope with stress during lockdown. The following two posts are student submissions based on her class series.
Try writing a methodological journal during your dissertation
Keeping a methodological journal matters a lot to both the product and process of your dissertation. In terms of product, a written-up account of what you did is crucial to detailing to justifying and detailing what you did. In a methodology chapter, every step you took must be detailed and rationalised clearly. An effectively kept journal is a gift in the writing up stage after the project is over.
LEADS at home - Stuart Purcell
Stuart Purcell, ELA for Arts, gives us a look into his working-from-home set up.
A lesson learnt!
My undergraduate dissertation was not good. I probably shouldn’t even admit it, but I did everything I’d now advise students not to do. Friends (who tease me for being overly organised…) will smirk to discover that I left far too much to the last minute. Ok, all of it.
Parliament and Plagues
The eighteenth century was filled with numerous health (plague) scares, and British politicians looked to try to control the impacts of the disease in some similar (and some not so similar!) ways to our present situation.
The Lost Executioner: Medical practitioners in an early modern pandemic
In the winter of 1494-1495, a new pandemic began sweeping across Europe. By 1497, it had crossed the sea to Scotland, the following year it arrived in India. In a world where travel was much slower than today, this was a frighteningly fast spread.
LEADS at home - Andrew Struan
A mini-series about our (often less than ideal) working from home set ups. Andrew talks us through his new set up.
Quarantine yoga makes me happy
How do you keep yourself sane during lockdown?
Death indicators in Covid-19
A break down some of the common indicators that have been used to describe the deadliness of COVID-19 in the UK. Examining these indicators is a real-life opportunity to utilise some of the skills of critical thinking including slowing down, repeating, stepping back and asking ‘why?’