@dswanton

I'm a geographer at Edinburgh University interested in everyday multiculture, photography, ordinary cities, race and racism, assemblages, and industrial ruins

 Edinburgh
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Joined December 2011
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Nina Morris@_NinaJM1 Aug 2023
Want to know more about our 'Backbone' project on scoliosis funded by @ScoliResearch? Come to my @edfringe Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas show on 6 (tinyurl.com/3wz2yhh8) or 13 Aug (tinyurl.com/5n74dn6f)! @dswanton @RMHunt17 @Pip__T @DrCarolineBrown @DrCB00 Pls RT
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Just 1 day remaining for applications to be submitted for this post. Come join us @GeosciencesEd !
Hayden Lorimer@Slipshodspeller17 Nov 2022
Here @GeosciencesEd we're currently welcoming applications for a Lecturer in Human Geography (Sustainable Cities/Urban Geographies) post. Closing date is soon (23/11/22). Details below, give it a look! elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/…

Lecturer in Human Geography (Sustainable Cities/Urban Geographies)

The School of Geosciences at the University of Edinburgh wishes to appoint a full-time Lecturer in Human Geography (Sustainable Cities/Urban Geographies) on an open-ended contract. We are seeking a...

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We are looking for the newest member of the @ROHrabies team @wellcometrust : 4 year Human Geography PDRA position @EdinburghUni; multispecies research on street dogs and public health in India. Apply by the 24th Jan 22. edin.ac/3F3K6MM @GeosciencesEd @SniffThePastDog
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Teaching with Lego: @EdinburghUni’s @dswanton explains how using #Lego to demonstrate and apply lessons in class promotes play and interaction that leads to better engagement and peer discussion as part of active learning design #THECampus bit.ly/3tajLZ6
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A short thing I've written about teaching with Lego: timeshighereducation.com/cam… via @timeshighered

Teaching with Lego: using plastic bricks to encourage play and interaction in class

Dan Swanton explains how using Lego to demonstrate and apply lessons in class promotes play and interaction leading to better engagement and peer discussion as part of active learning design

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In this post, @dswanton describes the development of a hybrid field course for Year 3 students on the Masters of Geography programme. This alternative approach opened up practices of participation and observation, and innovative ways of study in the field teaching-matters-blog.ed.ac.…
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Daniel successfully defended his PhD “Enabling Assemblages” today (& received a special Dr badge). ⁦A big thankyou to his examiners ⁦@alxndrt⁩ & ⁦@CresswellTim⁩. His PhD parents are very proud. ⁦@dswanton,⁩ @daniel_m_z⁩
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Q.6 Super important...with everything that's happening marking learning playful, fun and social seems like an effective way of engaging students #LTHEchat
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Q5. Time to build up confidence and reinforcing purpose and value of creative activities #LTHEchat
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A4. Frantic...it's been a long day and I'm novice tweeter! #LTHEchat
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A3 More zines. Seems more important than ever to time to go analogue and craft something. Also enjoying using padlet to bring in different voices, perspectives and examples #LTHE
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A2 walking - using walks to encourage learners to spend time away from a screen and responding to the world around them #LTHEchat
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A1. using lego to get students building and storying as a way of discussing readings on urban division; zines as an assessment to encourage students to craft accounts of fieldwork and think about ethics of knowledge making and sharing #LTHEchat
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Practicing some more - decided to sketch a paper - and chose this new one by @kay_sambell and @ProfSallyBrown (link below)...I hope they like it, but given their expertise, I am expecting constructive feedback :)
Sally Brown@ProfSallyBrown17 Aug 2020
A new item out today in this collection by me and Kay Sambell: Covid-19 Assessment Collection - Sally Brown Sally Brown. I hope colleagues find this technique useful in designing innovative assessments to replace exams sally-brown.net/kay-sambell-…

Kay Sambell and Sally Brown: Covid-19 Assessment Collection - Sally Brown

This page collects together the various posts and downloads published on this website since March 2020, about how university assessment may be adjusted and reimagined in the context of the pandemic...

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Bhaskar Vira@bhask28622 Jun 2020
We're delighted to share these resources for #RemoteResearch, curated by my colleague Antonio Ferraz de Oliveira, designed originally to support our undergraduates who are being forced to reformulatr their dissertations due to #COVID19 #AcademicTwitter - docs.google.com/document/d/1…
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The Case for Reparations by Ta-Nehisi Coates - The Atlantic theatlantic.com/magazine/arc…
How I’m Spending My Pandemic Summer Vacation - The Chronicle of Higher Education chronicle.com/article/How-I-…

How I’m Spending My Pandemic Summer Vacation

A professor creates a syllabus to guide herself and other faculty members in preparing for more remote teaching this fall, amid Covid-19.

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Thomas Laqueur · While Statues Sleep · LRB 18 June 2020 lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v42/n12/…

Thomas Laqueur · While Statues Sleep

It is a task of a different order to redeem a history with the dead. If we are to learn from the Germans and produce a...

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As the George Floyd protests continue, let's be clear where the violence is coming from theguardian.com/commentisfre…

As the George Floyd protests continue, let's be clear where the violence is coming from | Rebecca...

Using damage to property as cover, US police have meted out shocking brutality in the wake of the uprising, says Guardian columnist Rebecca Solnit

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WeRNotVirus: plays to highlight Covid-19 racism against Asians theguardian.com/world/2020/m…

WeRNotVirus: plays to highlight Covid-19 racism against Asians

Project including monologues will be shown on Zoom to help expose ‘hidden problem’ in UK

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