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Prof. Pam Birtill
@diervilla.bsky.social
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Professor in the Psychology of Learning at University of Leeds. Welsh learner, #psychology academic, higher education and assessment, #linoprint artist, #allotment holder, weaver, spinner and all round dabbler. Northern. She/her/hi. SFHEA. NTF.
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It’s quite nice here
Mountains, turquoise sea and trees. Blue sky. It’s a stunning view.
November 1, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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Hello Christchurch (not Dorset)
October 28, 2025 at 5:36 AM
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I wasn’t sure if the 2024 election manifesto, which is all I could find, was still valid, as they have a new leader and the world has continued to change in the last 18 months. What level would it be funded at, would numbers be controlled? There’s a lot of detail missing.
Screenshot of green manifesto for higher education. Paraphrase: make everything free.
October 21, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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Ran away to the hills.
October 19, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Great presentation from my colleague Christina at #ESPLAT2025 about HE educators knowledge of dyslexia
Christina giving a talk. Title awareness land attitudes towards dyslexia in higher education academic staff
September 3, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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Outfit at Leeds was something else too!
August 26, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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Thinking back to last week when we were just back from an amazing Eisteddfod. I’m technically too old for Maes B but that didn’t stop me…
August 17, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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Screenshot of thread above showing a bus stop with no recess
July 1, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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Aaaaand home! Mad couple of weeks. Now chilling with Glastonbury on the telly box and home brew beers #happydays
That there London. Brutalist national theatre That there London, view from the wobbly pedestrian bridge. Lots of skyscapers boats of the Thames and another concrete bridge View from the 12th floor of a brutalist tower block over Cardiff caerdydd View of a medieval bridge in crickhowell
June 27, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Today’s office view
A large 1930s office block - view from a second floor window onto a street
June 26, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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Today’s office is on the twelfth floor of a brutalist tower block in Cardiff. What a view!
Cardiff from the twelfth floor. Buildings including millennium stadium
June 25, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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Made it. Phwew.
June 24, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Fascinated by the concept of Specifications Grading. Giving students agency and choice, with clear criteria, in assessment design. Create transparent assessment approaches, and allows students to define what success means like for them. #EuroSoTL2025
Photo of a slide showing a pyramid with different assessment types, linked to different grades that students can achieve
June 18, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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Final session of the day from @lornahamilton.bsky.social talking about inclusive neurodiverse campuses - really relevant for our work at @campusreimagined.bsky.social
Slide showing “Project INC: Inclusive Neurodiverse Campuses” with York St John University logo.
June 11, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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One of the good things about working at Leeds
A photo of a Wm Youngers wooden painted sign for Whitelocks ale house. Hot and cold food readily available. It’s old!
May 15, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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Intended to go walking. Toooo tired, so did weaving instead
A rigid heddle loom with a beginnings of cloth woven on it in coloured stripes of purple, lilac, yellow, green. A plastic heddle (a thing with plastic vertical pieces sandwiched between two pieces of wood) is visible, and the loom is on a wooden stand. It’s 26 inches across.
May 5, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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This was a weekend done proper. Drypoint workshop, walk, seaside, fish and chips.
Fish and chips in a cardboard box Blue sky, sea. Grass clifftop in the foreground. There are cliffs on both the left and right of the photo, as the camera is looking down into a small cove. There’s a big rock sticking up out the middle of the sea. The cliffs are white and topped by grass. A drypoint image in black of a house that is white. It’s a house on Bardsey Island, but its mirror image as I didn’t bother reversing the drawing for the print.
April 27, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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Looking forward to reading this.
Cover of a book - more than words, how to think about writing in the age of AI by John Warner. The book is hardcover, the title and author name in a sans serif font. And you can also see my yellow table cloth behind.
April 15, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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No river for much of the valley of the seven bridges near fountains abbey in North Yorkshire today
April 13, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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Peak magnolia.
A photo of a pink magnolia in full blossom, taken from a first floor window, so looking down
March 26, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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Feels important that this is happening today
A poster promoting the school of psychology gender diversity awareness event happening today.
March 26, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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Today was a weaving type of day
Cloth being woven on a small hand loom - a rigid heddle loom. The cloth is orange with four thin black stripes
March 22, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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Office magnolia view!
A flowering magnolia
March 19, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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Blue sky, fields, long shadows. It’s a view of the wolds in Yorkshire
March 10, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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Lots of weather today!
A grey view over water with hills and clouds in the distance
February 20, 2025 at 4:06 PM