Researcher of Mental Health/Suicide/Performance. 'Madness in Contemporary British Theatre' (Palgrave, 2021).
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Contributions from a range of wonderful scholars and practitioners:
@Arifa_Akbar,@CatherineLove21,@KThomaidis
@jonvenn,@kath_graham,@FayeRigopoulou
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Beyond excited to announce that The Methuen Drama Handbook of Women in Contemporary British Theatre co-edited by @marissiafr and myself is now available for pre-order ahead of publication in February! bloomsbury.com/uk/methuen-dr…
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Full of joy and disbelief, I'm excited to share that my book 'Feminism, Dramaturgy, and the Contemporary British History Play' has been published today with @BloomsburyAcad! bloomsbury.com/uk/feminism-d…
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I've also resigned from UKRI's Interdisciplinary Assessment College, following Laura's lead. I simply can't/won't give my review time an organisation operating in these conditions.
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"HEALTH COMMUNISM is not “well-behaved”: It is not interested in sober consideration, dry pontifications. . ."
@jonvenn reviews the latest from @DeathPanel_ hosts Beatrice-Adler Bolton (@realLandsEnd) and Artie Vierkant (@avierkant), from @VersoBooks: full-stop.net/2023/01/06/rev….
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"HEALTH COMMUNISM thrives with the inbound hope of any manifesto—the naming of violence as a source of potential political revolution." @jonvenn reviews the new book from @DeathPanel_ hosts Beatrice-Adler Bolton and Artie Vierkant and @VersoBooks: full-stop.net/2023/01/06/rev….
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I don't know who Minerva Smith is but it's clear she's been watching Birkbeck's owl closely for a long time and needs to be listened to before she takes flight at dusk.
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Time to start doing things, Birkbeck supporters!
Please RT widely!
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"Shope’s strength is marking the marginal shifts and mechanisms of power between patient and doctor." Find @jonvenn's review of @shope_nina's novel Asylum (@dzancbooks) here: full-stop.net/2022/09/16/rev…
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"An enthralling, sometimes giddy, evocation of hysteria." @jonvenn reviews ASYLUM by @shope_nina, Winner of @dzancbooks Prize for Fiction: tinyurl.com/3t29ntbd
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Today is #publicationday for my first book Female Aerialists in the 1920s and early 1930s routledge.com/Female-Aeriali… #theatrehistory #circus #audiences
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I am furious at this, too furious to say anything remotely sensible, except that this will not work, is highly unethical and infantilising and just absolutely destructive of proper student support and mental health
New: Universities will inform families of mental health concerns about students, in landmark regulatory guidelines to prevent suicides
Bereaved parents told me flagging warning signs is vital to save students before it's too late -Sunday @Telegraph
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YAAAAS!! 💃🥳🤯
The day is tomorrow folks! See you @BirmCons at 7pm @SHOUTfestival
Yes? No? Black? White?
Offensive? Unoffensive?
Following Kali is @PabloPakula's "Yes No Black White (a snowflake sonata)" - a moral, sensory attack on your psyche that will test your buttons and ask you what offends you? How? Why?
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BREAKING: We now know the full picture on redundancies planned by @GoldsmithsUoL - at least 52 jobs. Alongside 32 professional services staff, SMT today served notice they are seeking to cut the equivalent of 20 full time lecturers in English & Creative Writing and History. 1/4
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Mental Health Matters: Trusts to review use of controversial care model
This week I tackle the debate that has arisen around the Serenity Integrated Mentoring programme.
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"Criminalising people has somehow become acceptable mental health care. This approach strikes me as the latest evolution of the deserving/undeserving narrative... that is culturally embedded in mainstream services."
An Anonymous #MadCovidDiaries madcovid.wordpress.com/2021/…
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Ivan Vladislavić's THE DISTANCE (@archipelagobks) a novel about South African teens attempting to write a memoir about Muhammad Ali, reviewed by @soonamahal full-stop.net/2020/11/30/rev…
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This triggered memories from my student years in UK HE. Random selection (a thread):
•While studying a MA in performance, I was told by a director peer that I shouldn’t stay in the UK ‘because the way I sound means I’d only play taxi drivers’. He ‘would never cast’ me. (1/7)
'It's had a lasting impact': students on being bullied over their accents theguardian.com/education/20…
