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polinagavin.bsky.social
Teaching Fellow | Research Associate | Senior Residence Adviser at Aston University 🎓PhD in Literary Linguistics
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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. 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...

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Please welcome to Bluesky the Aston University Archives @astonunarchives.bsky.social Follow, tag, do your magic!

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Send us your love (or the abstract) until the end of the week #PALA2025 ❤️

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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

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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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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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Very happy to have presented my research on desire in qualitative research at #QRS2025! 😁

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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' www.bbc.com/news/article...

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This was such an inspiring evening listening to wonderfully talented poets! www.aston.ac.uk/latest-news/...

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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

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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

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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? 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/jomf... #SciComm #Parenting 🧪

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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:

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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

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Really looking forward to giving a talk at Seamus Heaney Centre, Queens University Belfast on Thursday 12th December: 'Wor(l)ds: literary stylistics and creative practice-research'. There's even a wine reception...

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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

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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...

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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

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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...

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