thesociologicalreview.org/fiction/look... I painted this in the same theme as my short story. The contrasts in Manchester and rapidly changing skyline never cease to stop me in my tracks.

The highlight of the last two weeks has been being with students again; hearing their stories about what brought them to uni, and exploring their goals and passions. (Lowlight, all the administration around teaching and uni bureaucracy)

Saw this the other day in a school....

My fabulous students learning from experiences and learning from peer feedback today.

Students enjoying their project-based learning and opportunity for creativity

It was really good to run our student campaign project again. Students only have 3 weeks to work with new people and design a delivery a campaign . They learn a lot from this experience, and actually enjoy it!

I've Been Meaning to Tell You, by David Chariandy, sits pleasingly close to its Ta-Nehisi Coates inspiration in my alphabetised book shelf. Beautiful and poignant stories from fathers to children.

Really interesting week at The British Academy exploring urban futures. Real mix of disciplined and international perspectives, some excellent conversations to follow up on. Also Exciting to work in person on our Kenyan project with Su, Sami and Joyce.

Important to see some real representations of a research bidding process. That's 11 years, and many rejections before success! Great @britishacademy.bsky.social event today in London

Well that was exhausting, now back to work
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Bit of Christmas wrapping up and student voice today using Kahoot. We let students choose some difficult questions to ask in us, and then we asked students to respond to some light questions

Students at a protest activity, this is what they are passionate about today

My colleague had my workshop avatar framed!