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Introduction to research skills
No full textDo you ever feel daunted by the thought of "doing research"? Gillian Siddall talks about the new tutorials which offer a starting point for your research journey and helps to dispel some of the myths around the research process
Short video on behalf of LIRG Research award 2011 winners Hannah Rose and Gillian Siddall
No full textOverview of research undertaken and key findings
Transition to UON
No full textOn Monday 3rd June, 2024, I held an exhibition in the Learning Hub at the University of Northampton. This showcased the photographs by the MSc Public Health students who were co-researchers on my project: Exploring the transition of international students to UK Higher Education (HE). The exhibition celebrated their photographs and outlined some of the key experiences they have had, coming to study at the University of Northampton. The students’ photographs were presented alongside quotes from the research interviews that highlight key themes from the project. All images subject to copyright: Gillian Siddall, 2024
Transition to UON
No full textOn Monday 3rd June, 2024, I held an exhibition in the Learning Hub at the University of Northampton. This showcased the photographs by the MSc Public Health students who were co-researchers on my project: Exploring the transition of international students to UK Higher Education (HE). The exhibition celebrated their photographs and outlined some of the key experiences they have had, coming to study at the University of Northampton. The students’ photographs were presented alongside quotes from the research interviews that highlight key themes from the project. All images subject to copyright: Gillian Siddall, 2024
"Ice Road" by Gillian Slovo. [review - radio script]
No full text"Ice road" is a novel of nineteenth century proportions by prolific British author Gillian
Slovo. With its broad canvas of Russian history and large cast of characters, led by a
young woman called Natasha, it consciously harks back to Tolstoy’s "War and Peace".
The story begins with a cleaner called Irina Davydovna Arbatova, a pragmatic
worker born at the beginning of the twentieth century, who by various chance encounters
becomes involved in the family of Boris Aleksandrovic Ivanov, a party official, one of the new soviet ruling class. The setting is Leningrad, and the year is 1934
Editing Aphra Behn in the Digital Age: An Interview with Gillian Wright and Alan Hogarth
Get PDFThis interview provides a view of the work in progress for the Cambridge University Press edition of the Complete Works of Aphra Behn. Gillian Wright serves as a general editor (with Elaine Hobby, Claire Bowditch, and Mel Evans) as well as the volume editor for Behn’s poetry. Alan Hogarth is the Postdoctoral Research Associate working with Mel Evans on the computational stylistics and author attribution testing. The discussion focuses on the scope and principles of editing the poetry of Aphra Behn, the role of stylometry in establishing the corpus, the status of work, a few particular poems, and some surprises
First impressions : reconstructing language and identity in Pauline Johnson's "The Cattle Thief," Jeanette Armstrong's "Indian Woman," and Beth Cuthand's "Post-Oka Kinda Woman"
Get PDFIn this thesis, utilizing the works of contemporary post-colonial critics and
authors, I argue that poetry is a medium through which Aboriginal women can reclaim
control over the construction of Aboriginal female identities. I also argue that language
has played an important role in the history of colonization. Firstly as a venue in which the
colonizers could construct a perception of the world in which an ideological subjugation
of Indigenous peoples is not only appropriate, but necessary. Second, as a venue in which
Indigenous writers can address the disconnectedness of the colonially constructed reality,
and, lastly, as a space in which Native writers can reconstruct history, the world, and
Aboriginal identity according to their own multi-cultural and individual perspectives.
Through close readings of poetry by three Aboriginal women in Canada, I argue that each
poet’s active engagement with the socially constructed relationship between signifiers
and signifieds allows them to re-codify the English language in ways that accommodate
their own multi-cultural and individual perspectives
Nieznajoma z North Carthage. Dwuznaczne narracje Gillian Flynn w powieści "Zaginiona dziewczyna"
No full textThis article analyzes the use of narration in Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl. The author employs the „missing white woman syndrome” and unreliable narrators to manipulate readers' perceptions and expectations.This article analyzes the use of narration in Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl. The author employs the „missing white woman syndrome” and unreliable narrators to manipulate readers' perceptions and expectations
Alternative music : jazz and the performance resignification of identity in Ann-Marie MacDonald's Fall on Your Knees and Anthony Minghella's The Talented Mr. Ripley
Get PDFIn this thesis, I argue that Jazz, a music which finds its basis in improvisation, not
only functions as music, but as an extremely potent means of political resistance to a
number of systems by and through which identity is constructed, distributed, regulated, and
enforced. I also argue that, as a form of music and of resistance, jazz is, quite
paradoxically, a part of the very system(s) that work(s) to construct, distribute, regulate, and
enforce normative and/or compulsory categories of identity—but that resistance always
takes place within the systems that give normative and/or compulsory categories of identity
their intelligibility. And, finally, I argue that there exists a relationship between jazz and
Judith Butler's theory of gender performativity, which functions as a means by which to
unsettle and subvert foundational categories of gender, sexuality, and race. In the following
pages, I examine the ways in which two texts, Ann-Marie MacDonald's Fall On Your Knees
(1996) and Anthony Minghella’s The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) highlight and dramatize
each of these precepts. While Fall On Your Knees illustrates the various ways jazz and
gender performativity work to subvert and unsettle foundational categories of identity. The
Talented Mr. Ripley, quite alternatively, illustrates the various ways in which jazz and
gender performativity sustain these same foundational categories of identity by allowing
Tom Ripley an entrance into normativity. Although each text—in which jazz and gender
performativity play and intricate role in the subversive practices of signification but are
unable to provide a number of characters a means of sustained and successful
subversion—ends on an ultimately dour note, the fact that subversion occurs at all is what
remains important
Gillian Dooley interviews Joris Luyendijk, author of 'Fit to Print: Misrepresenting the Middle East'.
Get PDFInterview with Joris Luyendijk, author of 'Fit to Print: Misrepresenting the Middle East', a book about the problems of foreign journalism in the Middle East
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