Louise Platt
@drluplatt.bsky.social
Reader in Place Experiences mainly interested in leisure practices and place.
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NEW POST: Under questioning from MPs at this week's Education Select Committee's SEND Inquiry hearing, Schools Minister, Catherine McKinnell repeatedly refused to guarantee SEND legal rights. @catrionamoore.bsky.social bravely watched it all for SNJ. Your thoughts? www.specialneedsjungle.com/s...
July 3, 2025 at 5:02 AM
NEW POST: Under questioning from MPs at this week's Education Select Committee's SEND Inquiry hearing, Schools Minister, Catherine McKinnell repeatedly refused to guarantee SEND legal rights. @catrionamoore.bsky.social bravely watched it all for SNJ. Your thoughts? www.specialneedsjungle.com/s...
If you know of parades or processions of any type in GM or Lancashire please see below. There is a link in here to add events to the map. We are missing so much (past and present) practice.
We made a map (well it’s ongoing… please add!) of parades and processions in GM and Lancashire with zero GIS skills but I’m open to learning (and trial and error) and I’m pretty pleased storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/8d6d...
Processional Cultures
Greater Manchester and Lancashire
storymaps.arcgis.com
June 27, 2025 at 6:32 AM
If you know of parades or processions of any type in GM or Lancashire please see below. There is a link in here to add events to the map. We are missing so much (past and present) practice.
We made a map (well it’s ongoing… please add!) of parades and processions in GM and Lancashire with zero GIS skills but I’m open to learning (and trial and error) and I’m pretty pleased storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/8d6d...
Processional Cultures
Greater Manchester and Lancashire
storymaps.arcgis.com
June 25, 2025 at 1:43 PM
We made a map (well it’s ongoing… please add!) of parades and processions in GM and Lancashire with zero GIS skills but I’m open to learning (and trial and error) and I’m pretty pleased storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/8d6d...
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Twenty years ago we released our second EP, A Quiet Life, on Deltasonic Records. To mark the anniversary, we’re releasing the original EP on streaming services and our first ever cassette. Available on Bandcamp and limited to 100 copies. thelongcut.bandcamp.com/album/transi...
June 20, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Twenty years ago we released our second EP, A Quiet Life, on Deltasonic Records. To mark the anniversary, we’re releasing the original EP on streaming services and our first ever cassette. Available on Bandcamp and limited to 100 copies. thelongcut.bandcamp.com/album/transi...
Another parade cancelled. This is something I’m really concerned about and building into my research. I’ve not focused on Pride really as mainly looked at traditional heritage events but this news is so worrying for the community and for processional practices.
Liverpool's Pride event and march are cancelled for 2025, with the organisers citing "significant financial and organisational challenges"
www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/whats-on/wha...
www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/whats-on/wha...
Liverpool Pride cancelled for 2025 in 'devastating' update
Organisers cited rising costs and difficulty securing national and local funding, which they say made it "impossible" to hold the event
www.liverpoolecho.co.uk
June 5, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Another parade cancelled. This is something I’m really concerned about and building into my research. I’ve not focused on Pride really as mainly looked at traditional heritage events but this news is so worrying for the community and for processional practices.
after a year the LA finally agreed his EHCP..four days before our tribunal hearing. It is a massive waste of time and resource and I’m too angry to celebrate yet. A place at a SEN school was agreed in Oct (to start in Sept) but we wanted SLT intervention added. It took til now to get that.
An excellent piece from @johnharris1969.bsky.social in The @newstatesman.com on his family's SEND struggles. High praise for SNJ's "battle-hardened SEND veterans" ”Don’t take away children’s rights, because if you do, you'll have a hell of a fight on your hands.” www.newstatesman.com/politic...
The special needs trap
What one parent’s experience reveals about a system on the brink of collapse.
www.newstatesman.com
June 4, 2025 at 5:03 PM
after a year the LA finally agreed his EHCP..four days before our tribunal hearing. It is a massive waste of time and resource and I’m too angry to celebrate yet. A place at a SEN school was agreed in Oct (to start in Sept) but we wanted SLT intervention added. It took til now to get that.
I’m still hoping got more responses! I know all the local Pride parades are missing but also there must be lots of village and small town parades out there (historical or contemporary). Please share! (I promise to get more active on here 🙈).
I am mapping processions and parades in greater Manchester and Lancashire. Can you help me by adding any you know about/remember! forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...
Microsoft Forms
forms.office.com
June 4, 2025 at 4:58 PM
I’m still hoping got more responses! I know all the local Pride parades are missing but also there must be lots of village and small town parades out there (historical or contemporary). Please share! (I promise to get more active on here 🙈).
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An excellent piece from @johnharris1969.bsky.social in The @newstatesman.com on his family's SEND struggles. High praise for SNJ's "battle-hardened SEND veterans" ”Don’t take away children’s rights, because if you do, you'll have a hell of a fight on your hands.” www.newstatesman.com/politic...
The special needs trap
What one parent’s experience reveals about a system on the brink of collapse.
www.newstatesman.com
March 27, 2025 at 7:00 AM
An excellent piece from @johnharris1969.bsky.social in The @newstatesman.com on his family's SEND struggles. High praise for SNJ's "battle-hardened SEND veterans" ”Don’t take away children’s rights, because if you do, you'll have a hell of a fight on your hands.” www.newstatesman.com/politic...
I am mapping processions and parades in greater Manchester and Lancashire. Can you help me by adding any you know about/remember! forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...
Microsoft Forms
forms.office.com
February 27, 2025 at 1:45 PM
I am mapping processions and parades in greater Manchester and Lancashire. Can you help me by adding any you know about/remember! forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...
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The second call for papers for LSA 2025 is available! To submit your abstract, please access templates and instructions @ leisurestudies.org/lsa2025/ and email your abstract to lsa2025@yorksj.ac.uk.
Updated Conference Updates: www.yorksj.ac.uk/events/50th-...
Updated Conference Updates: www.yorksj.ac.uk/events/50th-...
50th Leisure Studies Association Annual Conference | York St John University
The 50th Leisure Studies Association Annual Conference provides opportunities for researchers and practitioners to examine a range of social and spatial justice issues.
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February 3, 2025 at 2:20 AM
The second call for papers for LSA 2025 is available! To submit your abstract, please access templates and instructions @ leisurestudies.org/lsa2025/ and email your abstract to lsa2025@yorksj.ac.uk.
Updated Conference Updates: www.yorksj.ac.uk/events/50th-...
Updated Conference Updates: www.yorksj.ac.uk/events/50th-...
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The original Transition EP is now available on streaming. Listen here:
music.lnk.to/Vy2nzq
Cath Aubergine from the legendary ManchesterMusic.co.uk has written a few words reflecting on the release, far better than we could. Link below:
thelongcut.com
music.lnk.to/Vy2nzq
Cath Aubergine from the legendary ManchesterMusic.co.uk has written a few words reflecting on the release, far better than we could. Link below:
thelongcut.com
December 20, 2024 at 5:31 PM
The original Transition EP is now available on streaming. Listen here:
music.lnk.to/Vy2nzq
Cath Aubergine from the legendary ManchesterMusic.co.uk has written a few words reflecting on the release, far better than we could. Link below:
thelongcut.com
music.lnk.to/Vy2nzq
Cath Aubergine from the legendary ManchesterMusic.co.uk has written a few words reflecting on the release, far better than we could. Link below:
thelongcut.com
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Check out our new book: Creative Methods in Critical Event Studies. Great working with @drluplatt.bsky.social and Dr Briony Sharp as always, and such interesting and innovative research highlighted by chapter authors. www.routledge.com/Creative-Res...
Creative Research Methods for Critical Event Studies
This timely and innovative book offers an introduction to a range of creative methods, providing both empirical and conceptual guidance.
Based upon existing empirical work and richly illustrated thro...
www.routledge.com
December 12, 2024 at 12:25 PM
Check out our new book: Creative Methods in Critical Event Studies. Great working with @drluplatt.bsky.social and Dr Briony Sharp as always, and such interesting and innovative research highlighted by chapter authors. www.routledge.com/Creative-Res...
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It’s 20 years today since we released the Transition EP. Recorded in a studio in Liverpool, above a garage, where Space would periodically come in to grab equipment from their rehearsal room next to the live room, and released by the legendary Deltasonic Records.
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November 29, 2024 at 5:56 PM
It’s 20 years today since we released the Transition EP. Recorded in a studio in Liverpool, above a garage, where Space would periodically come in to grab equipment from their rehearsal room next to the live room, and released by the legendary Deltasonic Records.
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Patisserie week on bake off is not the one when you have high blood pressure 🫣
November 19, 2024 at 9:23 PM
Patisserie week on bake off is not the one when you have high blood pressure 🫣
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CFP: Leisure Studies special issue on Leisure & Technologies. think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...
Leisure and Technologies
think.taylorandfrancis.com
November 19, 2024 at 7:09 PM
CFP: Leisure Studies special issue on Leisure & Technologies. think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...
Our autistic son sings more words than speaks so certainly adding this to my reading list @louderlouder.bsky.social
After two years of writing and 18 years of life, this is out next March: my memoir about my autistic son James, how songs became our shared language... and how music & its magic affect us all. Pre-order here! linktr.ee/maybeimamazed
November 15, 2024 at 6:50 PM
Our autistic son sings more words than speaks so certainly adding this to my reading list @louderlouder.bsky.social
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Do you play video games? We’re after people over 18 to complete our pilot survey for our #GAMEHEARTS research here:
Please share.
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Please share.
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Gamers' experience: Information sheet and consent form
Dear gamer,
We are a research team from The University of Salford who are interested in the experiences of being a gamer.
1. About the Survey
The following survey is part of a broader project called...
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November 13, 2024 at 8:56 PM
Do you play video games? We’re after people over 18 to complete our pilot survey for our #GAMEHEARTS research here:
Please share.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Please share.
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Check out our new project on display at Holmfirth Library. Co-created with walking families from 6months old upwards! The families created a mural picturing their walks and we captured child/buggy eye view footage!for more see … Www.familyroutesproject.wordpress.com
November 12, 2024 at 7:55 PM
Check out our new project on display at Holmfirth Library. Co-created with walking families from 6months old upwards! The families created a mural picturing their walks and we captured child/buggy eye view footage!for more see … Www.familyroutesproject.wordpress.com
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Right then. I think we've reached a watershed point in the waging of culture wars, and Conservatives ought to see it, and act on it. I wrote this today: What kind of person would drag autistic children into the culture wars? The Kemi Badenoch kind
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
What kind of person would drag autistic children into the culture wars? The Kemi Badenoch kind | John Harris
The Tory leadership hopeful paints a picture of special treatment. As the father of an autistic child, I can tell you that’s a lie, says Guardian columnist John Harris
www.theguardian.com
October 14, 2024 at 4:44 PM
Right then. I think we've reached a watershed point in the waging of culture wars, and Conservatives ought to see it, and act on it. I wrote this today: What kind of person would drag autistic children into the culture wars? The Kemi Badenoch kind
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Muffin energy captured perfectly here
September 13, 2024 at 6:08 PM
Muffin energy captured perfectly here
Just scrap Safety Valve now! Let my child access education he can thrive in and not just cope. Is it naive to read this and feel hopeful? @sharonlsmith.bsky.social www.specialneedsjungle.com/send-emergen...
The SEND “Emergency” debate: scrap safety valve, write-off high needs debt and stop piling trauma on to families - Special Needs Jungle
The SEND “Emergency” debate: scrap safety valve, write-off high needs debt and stop piling trauma on to families
www.specialneedsjungle.com
September 6, 2024 at 5:59 AM
Just scrap Safety Valve now! Let my child access education he can thrive in and not just cope. Is it naive to read this and feel hopeful? @sharonlsmith.bsky.social www.specialneedsjungle.com/send-emergen...
Really sad news to read this morning.
We are bereft: Steve Silberman has died. He was our dear friend, and a tireless and enthusiastic ally to our entire community. His book NeuroTribes enlightened, empowered, and educated millions about autism and autistic people.
May his memory be a blessing.
www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/249...
May his memory be a blessing.
www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/249...
Misdiagnosed And Misunderstood
People often ask if I believe autism is overdiagnosed, if we’re just slapping a label on geeky kids who in previous generations would have been considered merely eccentric. I reply that I believe auti...
www.thesunmagazine.org
August 30, 2024 at 4:52 AM
Really sad news to read this morning.
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Latest from me: on the dangers of new austerity, and the fight already underway for children with special educational needs, and the basic rights of their families www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
In this new austerity moment, a fight is on: for the rights of children with special educational needs | John Harris
Cuts ruin lives and raise costs. This scandal is already playing out in the system, and it should be a warning to Labour, says Guardian columnist John Harris
www.theguardian.com
August 25, 2024 at 1:47 PM
Latest from me: on the dangers of new austerity, and the fight already underway for children with special educational needs, and the basic rights of their families www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
On me hols! Autistic son in element as holiday house has a swing ❤️Pretty sure we might be still out here at midnight 😂 Wales never disappoints
August 24, 2024 at 5:53 PM
On me hols! Autistic son in element as holiday house has a swing ❤️Pretty sure we might be still out here at midnight 😂 Wales never disappoints
I loved working on this paper and feel very proud of it.
New OA paper in Area:
'Walking-with/worlding-with in a global pandemic: A story of mothering in motion' by @drluplatt.bsky.social
This paper stages an autoethnographic reflection on the experience of walking-with infants as a means of making mothering worlds legible.
doi.org/10.1111/area... #geo
'Walking-with/worlding-with in a global pandemic: A story of mothering in motion' by @drluplatt.bsky.social
This paper stages an autoethnographic reflection on the experience of walking-with infants as a means of making mothering worlds legible.
doi.org/10.1111/area... #geo
February 29, 2024 at 7:01 PM
I loved working on this paper and feel very proud of it.