Senior Lecturer & Programme Leader for the BA English & MA ChYA at @marjonuni. Author of Female Heroes in YA Fantasy, Founder of @YAStudiesAssoc. Views my own.
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Dr Leah Phillips retweeted
The YASA Theory Reading Group is 💥BACK💥 this coming Thursday, 11 September, at 6pm GMT over Zoom. Come join us to discuss Bonnie Kneen's "The Desiring Girl in South African Young Adult Fiction." See you there!
Dr Leah Phillips retweeted
#CFP: "Thinking of the Children: Book Bans, Censorship and Literature for Young People" Online conference
11-12 February 2026
University of Münster
Deadline: 31st August 2025
Website: indico.uni-muenster.de/event…
Dr Leah Phillips retweeted
The first panel of YASA's Seminar Series is next week- Beth Kemp and Supriya Baijal (@baijal_supriya) will be ringing in the 2025 Seminar season for us on 16 June, 2025 at 11:00 GMT. Hope to see you there!
I'm not retweeting it, but...
Do they not realise that red lightsabers are the lightsabers of the bad guys????
Dr Leah Phillips retweeted
YASA members! The YASA Seminar Series 2025 is on the horizon. ☀️ Like the YASA conference, this is a great opportunity to explore emerging ideas and new directions with an audience of fellow YA studies scholars. Deadline to apply is 27 April 2025. Application form in bio!😊
Dr Leah Phillips retweeted
Don't forget to register by 21st midnight IST!! The first talk in our Speaker Series is almost here!
The first talk in ACLiSA's Speaker Series with Dr. Siddharth Pandey.
Date: 22nd March 2025
Time: 9.30 p.m. IST/9.00 a.m. PT
Venue: Online
To register, please scan the QR Code on the poster. Registration ends on 20th March.
For further information: aclisa.in/2025/02/22/speaker…
Dr Leah Phillips retweeted
Upcoming conference: Mothers, Motherhood, and Mothering in Children's and Young Adult Literature.
💻 Online
🗓️ 12-14 November 2025
🚨 Deadline for proposals 2 May 2025
More details here: call-for-papers.sas.upenn.ed…
@uni_muenster @chlatweets @IRSCL_News @YAStudiesAssoc @mother_net
Dr Leah Phillips retweeted
YASA's Theory Reading Group returns this Thursday, 13 Feb. @7pm GMT. Come join us! 😊 And keep an eye out for the full 2025 theory group schedule next week 👀🕵️
Thought I’d make this even easier… bsky.app/profile/lephill.bsk…
Dr Leah Phillips retweeted
I am thrilled to announce that the Adaptation and Childhood special issue of the journal Adaptation that I guest edited with @HuntsLeine is now live! Come read all about how children's literature and the very concept of childhood get adapted across media: academic.oup.com/adaptation/…
Dr Leah Phillips retweeted
📢EVENT ALERT📢
Where? @UofGlasgow
When? 3rd April 2025
We are ecstatic to launch the #CfP for our upcoming #symposium: '#Publishing #Fantasy for Younger Readers' featuring a #keynote by the fantastic @FrancesHardinge!
#Glasgow #WhatsOnGlasgow #Academia #Conference
Come find me on the bluer skies place. I’m there as lephill 😊
I’ve not been overly active here for a while, but I’m finding all sorts of joy and delightful chatter. It’s all new and shiny! (Let’s not break it)
Dr Leah Phillips retweeted
Every groundbreaking discovery in science started with someone willing to challenge their own assumptions. Your next literature review could be the one that changes everything.
Your academic work needs to fight confirmation bias.
It's blocking you from great research.
And it's easier to fix than you think.
Here's how to destroy confirmation bias in your research:
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I’m tied up in too many work things to participate as I wanted to … but there aren’t enough words to express how ridiculously proud I am of the whole @YAStudiesAssoc team!!! ❤️❤️❤️
Dr Leah Phillips retweeted
Academic jargon is suffocating your understanding of concepts.
Your writing lacks depth because you don't understand these terms.
I've got your solution:
Repost & reply 🎓
I'll DM you this handy guide in Google Sheets to explain scientific terminology (must be following).
ALT A handy guide to explaining scientific terminology: Causal Mechanism Constructivism Critical Multiplism Critical Realism Deconstruction Dialectics Empiricism Epistemology Existentialism Fallibilism Hermeneutics Incommensurability Irrealism Materialism Naturalism Objectivism Ontology Paradigm Paradigm Wars Phenomenology Philosophical Position Positivism Post-positivism Post-Structuralism Pragmatism Rationalism Realism Reflexivity Relativism Structuralism Subjectivism Tendency Theory-dependent knowledge production Theory-determined knowledge production Theory-Ladenness Underdetermination.
