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The joy of developing literacy
For some months now, most of our rooms at home have been labelled with (generally a phonetically-spelled version of) their names. My favourite is 'owt' on the front door ( Read more... ) -
Square-eyed is the way to go
You know I'm prone to whinging (I could insert the question mark which is coming up right here, but that would be a little unfair to myself) about being ill but still having to do childcare? I have just found the solution - be a bit ill (nothing major) and have two children to look after, one ill (PB) and one not (LB). I didn't go out of the house ( Read more... ) -
CfP: Ethnicity, mental health and learning disability in an age of austerity
LIVING WITH SOCIAL CATEGORIES: ETHNICITY, MENTAL HEALTH, AND LEARNING DISABILITY IN AN AGE OF AUSTERITY
18 JUNE 2012 THE OPEN UNIVERSITY, MILTON KEYNES
KEY NOTE SPEAKER: PROFESSOR JAMES NAZROO (MANCHESTER)
CHAIR: PROFESSOR RICHARD JENKINS (SHEFFIELD)
This one day interdisciplinary conference seeks to re-ignite debates about the lived consequences of ( Read more... ) -
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The quieter LJ becomes, the more I feel one of my prime reasons for keeping on posting is as a diary I can look back on in the future. I'm very busy at the moment, so don't have time to do a proper post or send emails to the various people I owe them to. Those two sentences are connected only because they are pathetic excuses for what is frankly a ( Read more... ) -
Holiday snaps
In my Easter 'holidays' (scare quotes because I was still doing work even though I was on leave, which I seriously resent. Also because they weren't hugely vacation-ish due to the usual sickness, dreadful sleep of LB when away from home, stress, blah blah. But there were some very good bits, one of which was when) I went to Furzey Gardens.
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One of the pleasantest of my recent pre-build tasks has been taking 'before' photographs. I have become mildly obsessed with the garage.
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Sheer whinge
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BiReCon 2012: Just 4 days to go to submit abstracts
We're got some really great abstracts now for BiReCon 2012, but we can still fit in a few more. This is just a reminder that there's only 4 days to go until the deadline (31st March) -
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A couple of research-y things:
A project about LGBT communities, with various different ways to participate (online, privately, workshops or survey)
Some open (topic not pre-determined) fully-funded PhD studentships (£13,500 p.a. (I think tax-free) + some travel/conference other kinds of expenses) in the Faculty of Health and Social Care at the Open ( Read more... )