Mehrunissa Shah
@mehrushah.bsky.social
English Education lecturer at UCL IOE. English and English with Drama PGCE subject leader. Chair of London Association for Teachers of English (LATE). Sometimes writes stuff about reading; working-class teachers & student identities.
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Read more about the @theclpe.bsky.social #ReflectingRealities report and watch our conversation with authors Kim Kinloch & @rashmiwriting.bsky.social, touching on the importance of representation in information books, including the significance of accurate & thoughtful illustration: bit.ly/4nTvKVu 📚
Reflecting Realities: Survey of Ethnic Representation within UK Children’s Literature
Released this morning, the 8th annual CLPE Reflecting Realities survey shows a modest increase in minoritised characters in books published for children in the UK.
bit.ly
November 14, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Read more about the @theclpe.bsky.social #ReflectingRealities report and watch our conversation with authors Kim Kinloch & @rashmiwriting.bsky.social, touching on the importance of representation in information books, including the significance of accurate & thoughtful illustration: bit.ly/4nTvKVu 📚
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EMC Twilight: Belonging and unbelonging in children’s literature
LAST CHANCE TO BOOK!
Book by: 8am tomorrow
buff.ly/dUEAC2B
LAST CHANCE TO BOOK!
Book by: 8am tomorrow
buff.ly/dUEAC2B
October 20, 2025 at 6:30 AM
EMC Twilight: Belonging and unbelonging in children’s literature
LAST CHANCE TO BOOK!
Book by: 8am tomorrow
buff.ly/dUEAC2B
LAST CHANCE TO BOOK!
Book by: 8am tomorrow
buff.ly/dUEAC2B
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I haven't posted an update on the petition for a while 👇
Over 3600 signatories to date
Folk are still signing
Thank you
Over 3600 signatories to date
Folk are still signing
Thank you
- 400 jobs to go at Lancaster University
- 1 in 4 people will be made redundant
But where's the financial evidence for this extreme action?
Please read 👇
Sign the petition 👇
chng.it/7F52bThYqn
- 1 in 4 people will be made redundant
But where's the financial evidence for this extreme action?
Please read 👇
Sign the petition 👇
chng.it/7F52bThYqn
Sign the Petition
Stop Mass Redundancies at Lancaster University – Hold Senior Management Accountable
chng.it
September 19, 2025 at 7:08 PM
I haven't posted an update on the petition for a while 👇
Over 3600 signatories to date
Folk are still signing
Thank you
Over 3600 signatories to date
Folk are still signing
Thank you
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Link to article: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
June 22, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Link to article: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
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Such a joy to interview Jason Reynolds. This piece gives a flavour of our 3 hour conversation!!
June 15, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Such a joy to interview Jason Reynolds. This piece gives a flavour of our 3 hour conversation!!
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British South Asian actors need more recognition for their achievements, says Hamza Jahanzeb, calling for more diversity within theatre PR teams: www.thestage.co.uk/opinion/more...
June 9, 2025 at 9:42 AM
British South Asian actors need more recognition for their achievements, says Hamza Jahanzeb, calling for more diversity within theatre PR teams: www.thestage.co.uk/opinion/more...
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Free Read Aloud and Make event for families! I'll be there with Beyond the Secret Garden co-author @ksandsoconnor.bsky.social and artist Laura X Carle. Come along!
An event for all the family at Tate Britain on Sat 24th May with @darrenchetty.bsky.social , author of Beyond the Secret Garden + new picturebook I'm going to make a friend. We'd highly recommend both books!
www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tat...
www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tat...
READ ALOUD AND MAKE: BEYOND THE SECRET GARDEN | Tate Britain
www.tate.org.uk
May 17, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Free Read Aloud and Make event for families! I'll be there with Beyond the Secret Garden co-author @ksandsoconnor.bsky.social and artist Laura X Carle. Come along!
Details for our London Association for Teachers of English summer conference are now live! Please join us on 5th July, with @iancushing.bsky.social and Su Hippisley, for a day 'Talking about Oracy'. With workshops from @darrenchetty.bsky.social and others.
londonenglishteachers.com/about/forthc...
londonenglishteachers.com/about/forthc...
May 1, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Details for our London Association for Teachers of English summer conference are now live! Please join us on 5th July, with @iancushing.bsky.social and Su Hippisley, for a day 'Talking about Oracy'. With workshops from @darrenchetty.bsky.social and others.
londonenglishteachers.com/about/forthc...
londonenglishteachers.com/about/forthc...
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My latest piece on Substack is about the incredible FIRST in the UK and West End history earlier this month - please do consider subscribing if you want to support my independent journalism: hamzajahanzeb.substack.com/p/maimuna-me...
April 15, 2025 at 9:25 PM
My latest piece on Substack is about the incredible FIRST in the UK and West End history earlier this month - please do consider subscribing if you want to support my independent journalism: hamzajahanzeb.substack.com/p/maimuna-me...
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I'm not sure which video to post--the fifteen paramedics in their last moments as one of them prays amid gunfire, the journalist being burned alive, the man holding a headless toddler, the people blown into the air, or the young man quietly rocking the shrouded body of a child.
It's a genocide.
It's a genocide.
April 7, 2025 at 3:45 PM
I'm not sure which video to post--the fifteen paramedics in their last moments as one of them prays amid gunfire, the journalist being burned alive, the man holding a headless toddler, the people blown into the air, or the young man quietly rocking the shrouded body of a child.
It's a genocide.
It's a genocide.
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I’m old enough to remember the collective government freak out about TikTok being an arm of the Chinese government. Turns out the call is literally coming from inside the house.
Breaking: Top Trump officials’ private data and passwords have surfaced online, including Pete Hegseth, Mike Waltz, and Tulsi Gabbard.
This data could potentially be used by America’s enemies to hack into the unsecured Signal chat where they discussed war plans.
This data could potentially be used by America’s enemies to hack into the unsecured Signal chat where they discussed war plans.
Hegseth, Waltz, Gabbard: Private Data and Passwords of Senior U.S. Security Officials Found Online
Donald Trump's most important security advisers used Signal to discuss an imminent military strike. Now, reporting by DER SPIEGEL has found that the contact data of some of those officials, including ...
www.spiegel.de
March 26, 2025 at 9:52 PM
I’m old enough to remember the collective government freak out about TikTok being an arm of the Chinese government. Turns out the call is literally coming from inside the house.
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Terrifying and outrageous and all too believable: “The Palestinian co-director of Oscar-winning film "No Other Land" Hamdan Ballal was beaten up by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank and taken away by Israeli soldiers, his colleagues and eyewitnesses said. cnn.it/4iDMApA%E2%8...
March 24, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Terrifying and outrageous and all too believable: “The Palestinian co-director of Oscar-winning film "No Other Land" Hamdan Ballal was beaten up by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank and taken away by Israeli soldiers, his colleagues and eyewitnesses said. cnn.it/4iDMApA%E2%8...
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Tomorrow!
Free tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/beyond-the....
Free tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/beyond-the....
March 24, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Tomorrow!
Free tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/beyond-the....
Free tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/beyond-the....
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school discipline policies can be core tools to perpetuate linguistic injustice. for some children, especially those from marginalised backgrounds, their alleged inability to 'speak properly' gets framed as symptomatic of their alleged inability to 'behave properly'.
what does ‘misbehaviour’ sound like? in new open access work i ask this question in the context of school discipline policies, looking at how ideologies of ‘im/proper language’ and ‘im/proper behaviour’ coalesce and get co-constructed with one another. doi.org/10.1080/0962...
March 21, 2025 at 9:41 AM
school discipline policies can be core tools to perpetuate linguistic injustice. for some children, especially those from marginalised backgrounds, their alleged inability to 'speak properly' gets framed as symptomatic of their alleged inability to 'behave properly'.
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So @barbarableiman.bsky.social + @andrewemc.bsky.social have written a response to the interim report for the Curriculum + Assessment Review. Some positives, but some aspects to ask serious questions about too
englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/emc-res...
englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/emc-res...
Response to Curriculum and Assessment Review Interim Report
EMC's take on the what the interim report means for secondary English teaching
englishandmedia.co.uk
March 21, 2025 at 11:02 AM
So @barbarableiman.bsky.social + @andrewemc.bsky.social have written a response to the interim report for the Curriculum + Assessment Review. Some positives, but some aspects to ask serious questions about too
englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/emc-res...
englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/emc-res...
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National Literacy Trust Primary Conference - Bradford 27th of March 9-4pm
Join us at the Primary Conference 2025, where thought leaders including A. M. Dassu, Matt Goodfellow and Wilko Wilkes will share their insights on children’s oracy.
Secure your place now:
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Join us at the Primary Conference 2025, where thought leaders including A. M. Dassu, Matt Goodfellow and Wilko Wilkes will share their insights on children’s oracy.
Secure your place now:
lnkd.in/eYiqji-r
March 3, 2025 at 2:44 PM
National Literacy Trust Primary Conference - Bradford 27th of March 9-4pm
Join us at the Primary Conference 2025, where thought leaders including A. M. Dassu, Matt Goodfellow and Wilko Wilkes will share their insights on children’s oracy.
Secure your place now:
lnkd.in/eYiqji-r
Join us at the Primary Conference 2025, where thought leaders including A. M. Dassu, Matt Goodfellow and Wilko Wilkes will share their insights on children’s oracy.
Secure your place now:
lnkd.in/eYiqji-r
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I mean could they not just try doing some traditional Labour things well
"The proof that sacred cows really are being sacrificed is the anger of those who cherish them most – Labour’s left wingers. Their reaction is not merely predictable (and expect, by the way, to see Labour’s right wingers employ that term pejoratively in the coming days), it is also functional."
Cutting welfare goes against Labour’s core values – that’s the point
Labour governments have always had to anger their supporters to win ‘credibility’.
theconversation.com
March 20, 2025 at 9:23 AM
I mean could they not just try doing some traditional Labour things well
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This will be great! Proud to be hosting !
#CriticalLanguageAwareness #TeamEnglish #Edusky #ThinkingForwards #Collaboration #HE & #Secondary 👍🏼👏🏽
#CriticalLanguageAwareness #TeamEnglish #Edusky #ThinkingForwards #Collaboration #HE & #Secondary 👍🏼👏🏽
This Thursday ! 4.30-5.30 😊Free online opportunity Sign up! @iancushing.bsky.social & @clarefeeneyuk.bsky.social share their brilliant #Language work with young people in the classroom #TeamEnglish englishassociation.ac.uk/thinking-for...
Thinking Forwards: Collaboration | Linguistic (in-)justice in schools (20 March 2025, 16:30 - 17:30) | The English Association
We support the teaching, learning, and enjoyment of English at all levels of education, from early years to further and higher education and beyond.
englishassociation.ac.uk
March 18, 2025 at 3:36 PM
This will be great! Proud to be hosting !
#CriticalLanguageAwareness #TeamEnglish #Edusky #ThinkingForwards #Collaboration #HE & #Secondary 👍🏼👏🏽
#CriticalLanguageAwareness #TeamEnglish #Edusky #ThinkingForwards #Collaboration #HE & #Secondary 👍🏼👏🏽
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this is today, at 4.30 GMT! me and clare will be talking about how our collaborations between critical applied linguists and teachers have been focused on dismantling linguistic injustice in schools, and building futures of linguistic justice 💜
This will be great! Proud to be hosting !
#CriticalLanguageAwareness #TeamEnglish #Edusky #ThinkingForwards #Collaboration #HE & #Secondary 👍🏼👏🏽
#CriticalLanguageAwareness #TeamEnglish #Edusky #ThinkingForwards #Collaboration #HE & #Secondary 👍🏼👏🏽
This Thursday ! 4.30-5.30 😊Free online opportunity Sign up! @iancushing.bsky.social & @clarefeeneyuk.bsky.social share their brilliant #Language work with young people in the classroom #TeamEnglish englishassociation.ac.uk/thinking-for...
March 20, 2025 at 5:59 AM
this is today, at 4.30 GMT! me and clare will be talking about how our collaborations between critical applied linguists and teachers have been focused on dismantling linguistic injustice in schools, and building futures of linguistic justice 💜
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Absolutely blown away by the Jhalak Prize 2025 longlist! Huge congratulations to this incredible list of books & authors on the list 🤩📚🎉
#JhalakPrize25 #JhalakPrize #JhalakPrize2025 #Booksky #BooksWorthReading
#JhalakPrize25 #JhalakPrize #JhalakPrize2025 #Booksky #BooksWorthReading
March 18, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Absolutely blown away by the Jhalak Prize 2025 longlist! Huge congratulations to this incredible list of books & authors on the list 🤩📚🎉
#JhalakPrize25 #JhalakPrize #JhalakPrize2025 #Booksky #BooksWorthReading
#JhalakPrize25 #JhalakPrize #JhalakPrize2025 #Booksky #BooksWorthReading
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Lots more copies sold. BTSG will be making waves!
Launch (No2) of Beyond the Secret Garden last night! @ucl.ac.uk
@ksandsoconnor.bsky.social & @darrenchetty.bsky.social presented their book.
Dr @denizarzuk.bsky.social chaired.
Respondents: Dr Lara Choksey, @mehrushah.bsky.social @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social
@engmediacentre.bsky.social
@ksandsoconnor.bsky.social & @darrenchetty.bsky.social presented their book.
Dr @denizarzuk.bsky.social chaired.
Respondents: Dr Lara Choksey, @mehrushah.bsky.social @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social
@engmediacentre.bsky.social
March 19, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Lots more copies sold. BTSG will be making waves!
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On Tuesday 25th March, @ksandsoconnor.bsky.social and I will be talking about Beyond the Secret Garden at Brixton Library. It’s a free event. Come along!!
March 19, 2025 at 9:36 AM
On Tuesday 25th March, @ksandsoconnor.bsky.social and I will be talking about Beyond the Secret Garden at Brixton Library. It’s a free event. Come along!!
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APNewsAlert: APNewsAlert: DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (@AP) — Gaza’s ministry of health says at least 44 people have been killed in morning airstrikes by Israel.
March 18, 2025 at 1:38 AM
APNewsAlert: APNewsAlert: DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (@AP) — Gaza’s ministry of health says at least 44 people have been killed in morning airstrikes by Israel.