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  University of Exeter Students’ Guild Teaching Awards 2015

  Photo: Exeter Student’s Guild  This year I was shortlisted for ‘Best Postgraduate Teacher’ at the University of Exeter Student’s Guild Teaching Awards. These Awards were the first of this kind to be established in the UK (2009) and remains the largest in the country. Over 1 million words in praise…

  May 6, 2015
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  How to Give up / Quit Facebook – how to live in social oblivion and still be happy.

  Today I have made a decision that I am no longer going to consider myself as an active participant or user of Facebook. Ironically, perhaps, I feel the need to share this on the internet but hope that the thinking I have done around this may be of some value…

  April 17, 2015
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  Conference Paper from ‘Theorising the Popular’ Conference at Liverpool Hope

   This post is a copy of a paper which I gave at my very first conference this summer. It was part of the fourth international Theorizing the Popular Conference held at Liverpool Hope University(details here). I am pleased to have given my first paper and include it in full. As…

  September 24, 2013