Polina Gavin
@polinagavin.bsky.social
Teaching Fellow | Research Associate | Senior Residence Adviser at Aston University 🎓PhD in Literary Linguistics
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On #covid day of reflection 2025, remember the rise of covid mutual aid groups that helped people self-isolate, did people's shopping, provided emotional support etc. etc.
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March 9, 2025 at 2:38 PM
On #covid day of reflection 2025, remember the rise of covid mutual aid groups that helped people self-isolate, did people's shopping, provided emotional support etc. etc.
blogs.sussex.ac.uk/crowdsidenti...
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Hello folks! We are pleased to announce that the BAAL 2025 website is now live. We will be updating the site in the next week with more information on the call for papers as well as how to purchase tickets.
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January 28, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Hello folks! We are pleased to announce that the BAAL 2025 website is now live. We will be updating the site in the next week with more information on the call for papers as well as how to purchase tickets.
baal2025.wordpress.com
baal2025.wordpress.com
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The latest issue of BAAL News - my first as editor - has just been published: www.baal.org.uk/wp-content/u...
February 28, 2025 at 11:39 AM
The latest issue of BAAL News - my first as editor - has just been published: www.baal.org.uk/wp-content/u...
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Please welcome to Bluesky the Aston University Archives
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February 28, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Please welcome to Bluesky the Aston University Archives
@astonunarchives.bsky.social Follow, tag, do your magic!
@astonunarchives.bsky.social Follow, tag, do your magic!
Send us your love (or the abstract) until the end of the week #PALA2025 ❤️
Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
Poetry often deviates from schematic templates. In this paper, I will discuss...
P. s. You have until 14th Feb to submit an abstract for #PALA2025
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Violets are blue,
Poetry often deviates from schematic templates. In this paper, I will discuss...
P. s. You have until 14th Feb to submit an abstract for #PALA2025
💜
pala2025.com/cfp/
Call for Papers
Call for Papers PALA 2025 Aston University, Birmingham, UK Digital Stylistics The conference theme is Digital Stylistics. We invite proposals for twenty-minute papers that explore the relationship …
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February 12, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Send us your love (or the abstract) until the end of the week #PALA2025 ❤️
This week students are flying their feedback for the mid-term module evaluation ✈️
February 12, 2025 at 9:07 AM
This week students are flying their feedback for the mid-term module evaluation ✈️
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Our starter pack for the qualitative methods community is growing! Check out these brilliant qual scholars, and reply to this post if you'd like to be included: bsky.app/starter-pack... #qualitative
February 5, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Our starter pack for the qualitative methods community is growing! Check out these brilliant qual scholars, and reply to this post if you'd like to be included: bsky.app/starter-pack... #qualitative
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Curious about what a 'diffractive' approach to reader-response stylistics may look like? Or just need a break from doomscrolling? Either way, come to my talk next week! Register here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/c695f6... #stylistics #diffraction
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February 7, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Curious about what a 'diffractive' approach to reader-response stylistics may look like? Or just need a break from doomscrolling? Either way, come to my talk next week! Register here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/c695f6... #stylistics #diffraction
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We launched some of the materials from our British Academy funded project on Wednesday night on Young Women & Body Image @c19thceleb.bsky.social @stephenpihlaja.bsky.social
Toolkit launched to support young women with body image
A toolkit designed to promote a positive body image among young people in Portsmouth has been launched.
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February 7, 2025 at 11:55 AM
We launched some of the materials from our British Academy funded project on Wednesday night on Young Women & Body Image @c19thceleb.bsky.social @stephenpihlaja.bsky.social
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Great piece on UK (mostly English) accent discrimination here featuring lots of our favourite linguists. If you're looking for an accessible overview for A level, here it is.
BBC News - UK's hierarchy of accents: 'I thought mine made me sound stupid'
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BBC News - UK's hierarchy of accents: 'I thought mine made me sound stupid'
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UK's hierarchy of accents: 'I thought mine made me sound stupid'
Sociolinguists say accent bias is prevalent in the UK and affects how people are perceived by classmates, colleagues and friends.
www.bbc.com
January 20, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Great piece on UK (mostly English) accent discrimination here featuring lots of our favourite linguists. If you're looking for an accessible overview for A level, here it is.
BBC News - UK's hierarchy of accents: 'I thought mine made me sound stupid'
www.bbc.com/news/article...
BBC News - UK's hierarchy of accents: 'I thought mine made me sound stupid'
www.bbc.com/news/article...
January 14, 2025 at 8:39 PM
This was such an inspiring evening listening to wonderfully talented poets!
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Aston University hosts creative responses to the pandemic through poetry showcase
Over 50 poets, academics, students and members of the public attended the event at Aston Business School in Birmingham
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January 14, 2025 at 8:29 PM
This was such an inspiring evening listening to wonderfully talented poets!
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🌱Are you interested in communicating about biobased, biodegradable and compostable materials? 🌱 Join our BB-REG-NET online meeting on Monday 13th January at 11.00 GMT. Register here: bb-reg-net.org.uk
January 10, 2025 at 1:48 PM
🌱Are you interested in communicating about biobased, biodegradable and compostable materials? 🌱 Join our BB-REG-NET online meeting on Monday 13th January at 11.00 GMT. Register here: bb-reg-net.org.uk
See you all this Saturday at our 'Writing and Reading the Pandemic' poetry event! Looking forward to hearing some amazing pandemic poems by Jamie Hale, Lisa Simpson and George Sandifer-Smith. Register here (and it's free!): t.co/fRzd7VI1nl
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-and-reading-the-pandemic-poems-about-covid-19-tickets-1102504272959?aff=oddtdtcreator
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January 8, 2025 at 3:27 PM
See you all this Saturday at our 'Writing and Reading the Pandemic' poetry event! Looking forward to hearing some amazing pandemic poems by Jamie Hale, Lisa Simpson and George Sandifer-Smith. Register here (and it's free!): t.co/fRzd7VI1nl
Today we had our last meeting for the Writing and Reading the Pandemic project in 2024! In these 6 months, we achieved loads: generated reader-response data, met so many readers interested in Covid poetry, and put together a unique corpus of Covid poems 📖
December 18, 2024 at 2:49 PM
Today we had our last meeting for the Writing and Reading the Pandemic project in 2024! In these 6 months, we achieved loads: generated reader-response data, met so many readers interested in Covid poetry, and put together a unique corpus of Covid poems 📖
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🧠👩👦Household mental load: 71% on mums
A new study reveals mums handle 71% of the 'invisible' thinking work at home, from meal planning to childcare. Dads focus more on occasional tasks like finances.
Why does this mental load still divide by gender?
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#SciComm #Parenting 🧪
A new study reveals mums handle 71% of the 'invisible' thinking work at home, from meal planning to childcare. Dads focus more on occasional tasks like finances.
Why does this mental load still divide by gender?
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/jomf...
#SciComm #Parenting 🧪
<em>Journal of Marriage and Family</em> | NCFR Family Science Journal | Wiley Online Library
Objective
This article examines whether domestic cognitive labor functions like other forms of domestic labor as a means to “do gender.”
Background
Domestic cognitive labor is increasingly concept.....
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December 14, 2024 at 8:18 PM
🧠👩👦Household mental load: 71% on mums
A new study reveals mums handle 71% of the 'invisible' thinking work at home, from meal planning to childcare. Dads focus more on occasional tasks like finances.
Why does this mental load still divide by gender?
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/jomf...
#SciComm #Parenting 🧪
A new study reveals mums handle 71% of the 'invisible' thinking work at home, from meal planning to childcare. Dads focus more on occasional tasks like finances.
Why does this mental load still divide by gender?
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/jomf...
#SciComm #Parenting 🧪
Just did the final reading group for the Writing and Reading the Pandemic project! Really enjoyed listening to our participants' discussions of covid poetry written by Lisa Simpson, Jamie Hale, Jackie Kay, and George Sandifer-Smith. Sign up to our free poetry event on the 11th of Jan to learn more:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-and-reading-the-pandemic-poems-about-covid-19-tickets-1102504272959?aff=oddtdtcreator
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December 11, 2024 at 9:10 PM
Just did the final reading group for the Writing and Reading the Pandemic project! Really enjoyed listening to our participants' discussions of covid poetry written by Lisa Simpson, Jamie Hale, Jackie Kay, and George Sandifer-Smith. Sign up to our free poetry event on the 11th of Jan to learn more:
My #ASRG talk on ekphrasis as a contemporary creative writing practice is tomorrow! If your 4-5pm is free, sign up here: t.co/FUGRf4R0Y5
December 3, 2024 at 10:40 AM
My #ASRG talk on ekphrasis as a contemporary creative writing practice is tomorrow! If your 4-5pm is free, sign up here: t.co/FUGRf4R0Y5
Excited to be talking about my research on ekphrasis as a creative writing practice as part of the ASRG seminar series at
Aston! The seminar is on Wed 4th Dec 4-5 on Teams. Register here: t.co/FUGRf4R0Y5
Aston! The seminar is on Wed 4th Dec 4-5 on Teams. Register here: t.co/FUGRf4R0Y5
November 25, 2024 at 9:19 AM
Excited to be talking about my research on ekphrasis as a creative writing practice as part of the ASRG seminar series at
Aston! The seminar is on Wed 4th Dec 4-5 on Teams. Register here: t.co/FUGRf4R0Y5
Aston! The seminar is on Wed 4th Dec 4-5 on Teams. Register here: t.co/FUGRf4R0Y5
Great! Listening for my next run sorted 👀
Our new podcast, Plastic: Unwrapped, is available now! I had so much fun making this for the Off the Shelf festival. Three 20-minute episodes, unwrapping our relationship with one of the most ubiquitous and controversial materials on earth. Give it a listen! offtheshelf.org.uk/event/plasti...
Plastic: Unwrapped - Professor Joanna Gavins - Off The Shelf
This podcast explores our relationship with one of the most ubiquitous and controversial materials on the planet: plastic. Over three episodes, Professor Joanna Gavins talks to experts from a range of...
offtheshelf.org.uk
November 18, 2024 at 11:14 PM
Great! Listening for my next run sorted 👀
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Our new podcast, Plastic: Unwrapped, is available now! I had so much fun making this for the Off the Shelf festival. Three 20-minute episodes, unwrapping our relationship with one of the most ubiquitous and controversial materials on earth. Give it a listen! offtheshelf.org.uk/event/plasti...
Plastic: Unwrapped - Professor Joanna Gavins - Off The Shelf
This podcast explores our relationship with one of the most ubiquitous and controversial materials on the planet: plastic. Over three episodes, Professor Joanna Gavins talks to experts from a range of...
offtheshelf.org.uk
November 8, 2024 at 9:25 AM
Our new podcast, Plastic: Unwrapped, is available now! I had so much fun making this for the Off the Shelf festival. Three 20-minute episodes, unwrapping our relationship with one of the most ubiquitous and controversial materials on earth. Give it a listen! offtheshelf.org.uk/event/plasti...
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New Beginnings: To celebrate the Pre-Raphaelite Society joining BlueSky, some depictions of beautiful blue skies by Edward Burne-Jones.
#preraphaelite #preraphaelites #preraphaelitism #victorian #art #arthistory #edwardburnejones
#preraphaelite #preraphaelites #preraphaelitism #victorian #art #arthistory #edwardburnejones
November 17, 2024 at 7:44 PM
New Beginnings: To celebrate the Pre-Raphaelite Society joining BlueSky, some depictions of beautiful blue skies by Edward Burne-Jones.
#preraphaelite #preraphaelites #preraphaelitism #victorian #art #arthistory #edwardburnejones
#preraphaelite #preraphaelites #preraphaelitism #victorian #art #arthistory #edwardburnejones
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Out today with @jaimackenzie.bsky.social & Sarah Atkins! We considered the ethical challenges of doing participant-centred research in linguistics, thinking beyond the formal ethics review process by drawing on our own - quite different - experiences in the field. www.degruyter.com/document/doi...
Ethical practice in participant-centred linguistic research
This article outlines ethical principles for ‘participant-centred linguistic research’ (PCLR), a term we coin to incorporate a range of linguistic research approaches that place importance on the invo...
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November 12, 2024 at 8:48 AM
Out today with @jaimackenzie.bsky.social & Sarah Atkins! We considered the ethical challenges of doing participant-centred research in linguistics, thinking beyond the formal ethics review process by drawing on our own - quite different - experiences in the field. www.degruyter.com/document/doi...