Lucy Pearson
@lrpearson.bsky.social
Scholar of children's and YA literature, Newcastle University UK.
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A permanent Lecturer position in Children's Literature and Creative Education is available at Goldsmiths, University of London. Please consider applying and/or sharing with others. As the Head of the MA Children's Literature, I'll be working closely with the successful applicant! Deadline: 4 Dec.
Jobs system, Goldsmiths, University of London
jobs.gold.ac.uk
November 12, 2025 at 3:45 PM
A permanent Lecturer position in Children's Literature and Creative Education is available at Goldsmiths, University of London. Please consider applying and/or sharing with others. As the Head of the MA Children's Literature, I'll be working closely with the successful applicant! Deadline: 4 Dec.
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Did you take part in a mock election at your UK school or college between 1983 and 2001?
Share your memories for a research project on young people and democracy in modern Britain!
Write to us about your experiences here: forms.office.com/e/FNAwjfFR7f
Share your memories for a research project on young people and democracy in modern Britain!
Write to us about your experiences here: forms.office.com/e/FNAwjfFR7f
October 24, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Did you take part in a mock election at your UK school or college between 1983 and 2001?
Share your memories for a research project on young people and democracy in modern Britain!
Write to us about your experiences here: forms.office.com/e/FNAwjfFR7f
Share your memories for a research project on young people and democracy in modern Britain!
Write to us about your experiences here: forms.office.com/e/FNAwjfFR7f
The fundamental problem with the shift to team teaching is that universities see it as a way to save money. Team teaching can be amazing but in my experience it's at its best when it represents additional resource compared to solo teaching.
Compulsory team teaching on every module is perhaps the biggest ever threat to the quality of teaching in UK universities.
It causes chaos on the ground for timetabling, ruins course coherence and turns lecturers into permanent supply teachers. It is pedagogically incoherent… 1/
It causes chaos on the ground for timetabling, ruins course coherence and turns lecturers into permanent supply teachers. It is pedagogically incoherent… 1/
November 6, 2025 at 10:15 AM
The fundamental problem with the shift to team teaching is that universities see it as a way to save money. Team teaching can be amazing but in my experience it's at its best when it represents additional resource compared to solo teaching.
Is it just me, or have spellchecks gotten worse? I've repeatedly had the experience of getting a word slightly wrong and then having spellcheck offer me either entirely the wrong word, or the root of the word I was searching for. I feel like Word etc used to be better at this sort of thing?
November 3, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Is it just me, or have spellchecks gotten worse? I've repeatedly had the experience of getting a word slightly wrong and then having spellcheck offer me either entirely the wrong word, or the root of the word I was searching for. I feel like Word etc used to be better at this sort of thing?
Just fund school libraries. Just fund school libraries. Just fund school libraries.
November 1, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Just fund school libraries. Just fund school libraries. Just fund school libraries.
A mess. One thing that would be super helpful is abandoning the dog eat dog marketisation of HE which results in massive uncertainty over student numbers year to year, and returning to capped recruitment which would allow for more planning. Of course this would require funding HE properly...
NEW on Wonkhe: Jim Dickinson exposes the disconnect between student housing needs and the systems meant to meet them, explaining how fragmented policymaking and market-driven development fuel the crisis in university towns buff.ly/LpLyOTD
October 30, 2025 at 9:42 AM
A mess. One thing that would be super helpful is abandoning the dog eat dog marketisation of HE which results in massive uncertainty over student numbers year to year, and returning to capped recruitment which would allow for more planning. Of course this would require funding HE properly...
Oh, this is terrible news. They have published such great stuff and been a brilliant force in children's publishing. It's so tough out there for independents.
Oh this is such sad news. Knights Of have been such a force for good in this industry - we need more companies like them, not fewer. www.thebookseller.com/news/indepen...
Independent children's publisher Knights Of set to close
Award-winning inclusive children’s publisher Knights Of is set to close, The Bookseller understands, with accountancy firm Hart Shaw instructed to place the company in liquidation, pending a vote of t...
www.thebookseller.com
October 29, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Oh, this is terrible news. They have published such great stuff and been a brilliant force in children's publishing. It's so tough out there for independents.
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Oh this is such sad news. Knights Of have been such a force for good in this industry - we need more companies like them, not fewer. www.thebookseller.com/news/indepen...
Independent children's publisher Knights Of set to close
Award-winning inclusive children’s publisher Knights Of is set to close, The Bookseller understands, with accountancy firm Hart Shaw instructed to place the company in liquidation, pending a vote of t...
www.thebookseller.com
October 29, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Oh this is such sad news. Knights Of have been such a force for good in this industry - we need more companies like them, not fewer. www.thebookseller.com/news/indepen...
Solidarity to BL workers. I know from experience that going on strike is pretty horrible and (despite the fact it looks like a 'holiday') exhausting. Wishing them success in the fight.
British Library workers are sick of poor pay, overwork, and feeling the fallout of a cyber-attack which left them vulnerable to identity theft and blackmail. Now, they are going on strike for a fortnight.
tribunemag.co.uk/2025/10/from...
tribunemag.co.uk/2025/10/from...
From National Treasure to National Scandal
British Library workers are sick of poor pay, overwork, and feeling the fallout of a cyber-attack which left them vulnerable to identity theft and blackmail. Now, they are going on strike for a fortni...
tribunemag.co.uk
October 28, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Solidarity to BL workers. I know from experience that going on strike is pretty horrible and (despite the fact it looks like a 'holiday') exhausting. Wishing them success in the fight.
It is totally insane to me that such a thing as a 'government shutdown' is even possible.
“Dysfunctional government” doesn’t even begin to describe this.
1.4 million civilian federal employees didn’t get a paycheck. And the part no one’s talking about: even if the government reopens tomorrow, we’ll be right back on the edge by November 21—the next shutdown deadline.
Chaos on repeat.
1.4 million civilian federal employees didn’t get a paycheck. And the part no one’s talking about: even if the government reopens tomorrow, we’ll be right back on the edge by November 21—the next shutdown deadline.
Chaos on repeat.
October 28, 2025 at 10:22 AM
It is totally insane to me that such a thing as a 'government shutdown' is even possible.
I propose that for the safety of all we just stop letting adults out on the roads on Halloween. Clearly they’re not responsible enough.
I was thinking about this today & did some Googling: despite the fact that this spike is often blamed on children's Halloween behaviour (wearing dark costumes, not paying attention on roads, etc), ~40% of deaths on Halloween 2022 involved drunk drivers: www.trafficsafetymarketing.gov/safety-topic...
A reminder that more American child pedestrians (age 0-17) are killed by cars on Halloween than on any other day of the year. #CarsRuinCities
www.vox.com/future-perfe...
www.vox.com/future-perfe...
October 25, 2025 at 7:30 PM
I propose that for the safety of all we just stop letting adults out on the roads on Halloween. Clearly they’re not responsible enough.
Great to see the Booker value children’s books, and to see a new participatory award appear on the scene (very interested to see how precisely they approach the use of child judges which seems to be tbc).
October 25, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Great to see the Booker value children’s books, and to see a new participatory award appear on the scene (very interested to see how precisely they approach the use of child judges which seems to be tbc).
This makes me feel better about my funding failures yet also... bleak stuff.
After submitting a FOIA request UKRI, I obtained success rates by three grant call scheme and I can only say that I am disheartened by the results:
- AHRC Responsive Mode 2025: 2%
- ESRC New Investigator Grant 2025: 1%
- ESRC Research Grant Round 2025: 1%
- AHRC Responsive Mode 2025: 2%
- ESRC New Investigator Grant 2025: 1%
- ESRC Research Grant Round 2025: 1%
October 23, 2025 at 12:56 PM
This makes me feel better about my funding failures yet also... bleak stuff.
Just filled in my child’s school survey on ‘PE outside school’ with a strong reminder that play is the key form of exercise for children!
Please do sign up for - and share - this webinar, on Dec 3rd, to hear about some of the amazing work going on nationally and locally to restore children's ability to play out on their doorsteps.
@rezinachowdhury.bsky.social @edwardlamb.bsky.social @playingout.bsky.social @aliceferguson.bsky.social
@rezinachowdhury.bsky.social @edwardlamb.bsky.social @playingout.bsky.social @aliceferguson.bsky.social
Restoring children's freedom to play out: let's seize the moment
Society is waking up to children's right and need to play out; councils and orgs around the UK are taking action, come and get inspired !
www.eventbrite.co.uk
October 22, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Just filled in my child’s school survey on ‘PE outside school’ with a strong reminder that play is the key form of exercise for children!
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Please do sign up for - and share - this webinar, on Dec 3rd, to hear about some of the amazing work going on nationally and locally to restore children's ability to play out on their doorsteps.
@rezinachowdhury.bsky.social @edwardlamb.bsky.social @playingout.bsky.social @aliceferguson.bsky.social
@rezinachowdhury.bsky.social @edwardlamb.bsky.social @playingout.bsky.social @aliceferguson.bsky.social
Restoring children's freedom to play out: let's seize the moment
Society is waking up to children's right and need to play out; councils and orgs around the UK are taking action, come and get inspired !
www.eventbrite.co.uk
October 22, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Please do sign up for - and share - this webinar, on Dec 3rd, to hear about some of the amazing work going on nationally and locally to restore children's ability to play out on their doorsteps.
@rezinachowdhury.bsky.social @edwardlamb.bsky.social @playingout.bsky.social @aliceferguson.bsky.social
@rezinachowdhury.bsky.social @edwardlamb.bsky.social @playingout.bsky.social @aliceferguson.bsky.social
Excited to see submissions for this special issue of Children's Literature in Education, which I am editing with Hazel Sheeky-Bird! Our work on the Aidan and Nancy Chambers archive (held at Seven Stories in the UK) highlighted how important they both were to children's lit #kidlit #aidanchambers
#CFP: Aidan Chambers Memorial Issue
Children's Literature in Education
Guest editors: Dr Lucy Pearson (Newcastle University, UK) and Dr Hazel Sheeky-Bird (Independent Scholar)
Deadline for abstracts: 1 December 2025
Email: CLEChambersMemorial@gmail.com
Website: link.springer.com/collections/...
Children's Literature in Education
Guest editors: Dr Lucy Pearson (Newcastle University, UK) and Dr Hazel Sheeky-Bird (Independent Scholar)
Deadline for abstracts: 1 December 2025
Email: CLEChambersMemorial@gmail.com
Website: link.springer.com/collections/...
October 14, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Excited to see submissions for this special issue of Children's Literature in Education, which I am editing with Hazel Sheeky-Bird! Our work on the Aidan and Nancy Chambers archive (held at Seven Stories in the UK) highlighted how important they both were to children's lit #kidlit #aidanchambers
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For reasons, it would be v. helpful to have information from a broad range of academic and non-academic (incl. GLAM) users of the BBC Written Archives OTHER THAN historians, briefly on: 1) What you've used it for and 2) How the proposed changes would impact on your research.
Reposts welcomed.
Reposts welcomed.
Historians dismayed by ‘scandal’ of BBC cutting access to...
Critics say new limit to trove of information sounds knell for independent research
observer.co.uk
October 14, 2025 at 9:09 AM
For reasons, it would be v. helpful to have information from a broad range of academic and non-academic (incl. GLAM) users of the BBC Written Archives OTHER THAN historians, briefly on: 1) What you've used it for and 2) How the proposed changes would impact on your research.
Reposts welcomed.
Reposts welcomed.
The description of the attempts to land here are almost exactly what happened on my Ryanair flight in Storm Éowyn. Ryanair were the only airline who ran flights from Dublin at that time. I wonder how much fuel was left when my Newcastle flight landed in Stansted? www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Ryanair flight landed at Manchester airport with six minutes of fuel left, flight log suggests
Investigation under way after flight during Storm Amy made three landing attempts in Scotland before flying to Manchester
www.theguardian.com
October 10, 2025 at 7:07 PM
The description of the attempts to land here are almost exactly what happened on my Ryanair flight in Storm Éowyn. Ryanair were the only airline who ran flights from Dublin at that time. I wonder how much fuel was left when my Newcastle flight landed in Stansted? www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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We're opening our 2025-26 Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing x Outside in World webinar series Explorations in Translation for Children on Thurs Oct 23rd, @ 5pm GMT
Discussing the project: Building a Global Youth Literature Collection 101
Register here: www.tickettailor.com/events/centr...
Discussing the project: Building a Global Youth Literature Collection 101
Register here: www.tickettailor.com/events/centr...
Select tickets – CBCP x OIW webinar: Building a Global Youth Literature Collection 101 – Teams
CBCP x OIW webinar: Building a Global Youth Literature Collection 101 – Teams, Thu 23 Oct 2025 - 'Explorations in Translation for Children' is a webinar series co-organised by The Centre for Book Cult...
www.tickettailor.com
October 9, 2025 at 8:28 AM
We're opening our 2025-26 Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing x Outside in World webinar series Explorations in Translation for Children on Thurs Oct 23rd, @ 5pm GMT
Discussing the project: Building a Global Youth Literature Collection 101
Register here: www.tickettailor.com/events/centr...
Discussing the project: Building a Global Youth Literature Collection 101
Register here: www.tickettailor.com/events/centr...
Good.
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
buff.ly
October 8, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Good.
Thinking a lot today about how the digital works to increase stress and alienation in HE. So often we receive emails from e.g. a student we've never met and it just feels like another item on the to do list. If you actually see someone in person the same query takes on a social quality
October 8, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Thinking a lot today about how the digital works to increase stress and alienation in HE. So often we receive emails from e.g. a student we've never met and it just feels like another item on the to do list. If you actually see someone in person the same query takes on a social quality
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Look around parks - who is missing?
Teenage girls are systemically designed out of parks and public spaces. We campaign to design them in.
It’s just 5 days to go until the Big Give campaign starts.
Donate to Make Space for Girls between 8-15 October and every donation is doubled.
Teenage girls are systemically designed out of parks and public spaces. We campaign to design them in.
It’s just 5 days to go until the Big Give campaign starts.
Donate to Make Space for Girls between 8-15 October and every donation is doubled.
October 4, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Look around parks - who is missing?
Teenage girls are systemically designed out of parks and public spaces. We campaign to design them in.
It’s just 5 days to go until the Big Give campaign starts.
Donate to Make Space for Girls between 8-15 October and every donation is doubled.
Teenage girls are systemically designed out of parks and public spaces. We campaign to design them in.
It’s just 5 days to go until the Big Give campaign starts.
Donate to Make Space for Girls between 8-15 October and every donation is doubled.
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#CFP: Aidan Chambers Memorial Issue
Children's Literature in Education
Guest editors: Dr Lucy Pearson (Newcastle University, UK) and Dr Hazel Sheeky-Bird (Independent Scholar)
Deadline for abstracts: 1 December 2025
Email: CLEChambersMemorial@gmail.com
Website: link.springer.com/collections/...
Children's Literature in Education
Guest editors: Dr Lucy Pearson (Newcastle University, UK) and Dr Hazel Sheeky-Bird (Independent Scholar)
Deadline for abstracts: 1 December 2025
Email: CLEChambersMemorial@gmail.com
Website: link.springer.com/collections/...
October 4, 2025 at 1:13 PM
#CFP: Aidan Chambers Memorial Issue
Children's Literature in Education
Guest editors: Dr Lucy Pearson (Newcastle University, UK) and Dr Hazel Sheeky-Bird (Independent Scholar)
Deadline for abstracts: 1 December 2025
Email: CLEChambersMemorial@gmail.com
Website: link.springer.com/collections/...
Children's Literature in Education
Guest editors: Dr Lucy Pearson (Newcastle University, UK) and Dr Hazel Sheeky-Bird (Independent Scholar)
Deadline for abstracts: 1 December 2025
Email: CLEChambersMemorial@gmail.com
Website: link.springer.com/collections/...
Saw One Battle After Another the other night and I think one of the things I enjoyed is that the combination of stoner comedy and big concept movie is actually quite intentional. The white men in this movie are literally in a different genre to everyone else.
October 2, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Saw One Battle After Another the other night and I think one of the things I enjoyed is that the combination of stoner comedy and big concept movie is actually quite intentional. The white men in this movie are literally in a different genre to everyone else.
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The settlement website in the Bartz v Anthropic class action is now live: www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com.
It includes comprehensive information about the case and settlement, including a searchable tool to see if your books are included in the settlement and a claim form.
It includes comprehensive information about the case and settlement, including a searchable tool to see if your books are included in the settlement and a claim form.
October 2, 2025 at 9:06 AM
The settlement website in the Bartz v Anthropic class action is now live: www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com.
It includes comprehensive information about the case and settlement, including a searchable tool to see if your books are included in the settlement and a claim form.
It includes comprehensive information about the case and settlement, including a searchable tool to see if your books are included in the settlement and a claim form.