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HRC York @hrcyork.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Call for Papers: Materiality/Immateriality – Postgraduate Colloquium in Arts and Humanities. Open to research students in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of York. Deadline for abstract submissions is 9th October 9am docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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HRC York @hrcyork.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

We are delighted to announce our multi-site, bilingual and hybrid Postgraduate Colloquium in Arts and Humanities in collaboration with the wonderful team at PUCV in Chile. Our Call for Papers for postgraduate research students will be shared very soon.

Poster that says 'Materialidad/Immaterialidad. Materiality/Immateriality. 18-19 Novc 2026. Colquio de Postgrado Arts y Humanidades. Facultad de Filosofía y Educación. PUCV. Postgraduate Colloquium in Arts and Humanities. Humanities Research Centre University of York.

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HRC York @hrcyork.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

We are looking forward to welcoming back our wonderful research community, including new research students joining academic units across the Faculty of Arts and Humanities. We love our home in Heslington Hall and we hope you do too. Lovely spaces and wonderful views 🥰

View of garden with topiaries and sculptures from window

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HRC York @hrcyork.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Last month we had a wonderful time connecting with partners old and new for our Heritage @ York Network event. More than 60 colleagues from the heritage sector and the Faculty joined us. Looking forward to more conversations!

Group of people networking, some sitting some standing

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HRC York @hrcyork.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Congratulations to HRC Postdoctoral Fellow Ishita Krishna for an article exploring objects and material decay in Samuel Beckett's Endgame as representations of abstract, existential ideas of mortality and death across text, stage, and archives 🎉 tinyurl.com/3bh9jpye

Journal cover reads 'Performance Research: On Exits and Endings'. A picture of a door in a stone structure, surrounded by a barren landscape.

A journal page with article's title and part of the body visible. Title reads ‘Nothing is more tragic than the grotesque’: Dying things and thinging death in Beckett’s Endgame. Ishita Krishna'.

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HRC York @hrcyork.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Join us for the HRC's First Annual Interdisciplinary Lecture. Dr Troy Kaighin Astarte will be presenting on '"YOU ARE MY WISTFUL SYMPATHY": Strachey, Turing, and (queer?) computer love' at 5pm. This is a hybrid event, more information and registration link on website www.york.ac.uk/hrc/events/2...

Dr Troy Kaighin Astarte smiling underneath a cherry tree.

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HRC York @hrcyork.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

This year's Summer Research Celebration is on 24th June and celebrates projects funded by our PCKE (Place and Community Knowledge Exchange) fund. We invite presentations of up to 5 minutes. Here's the proposal form: tinyurl.com/4fwmnfvd

Heslington Hall, a red brick manor, in the background. In the foreground a metal sculpture. In between a water fountain.

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HRC York @hrcyork.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Thanks to everyone who joined our Family Fun Festival last Saturday. Here's a small 'thank you' from the Robodog brought to us by Isobel Standen from Philosophy and the team from the Institute for Safe Autonomy 🐶

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HRC York @hrcyork.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Congratulations to all who shared their work as part of the @yorkfestofideas.bsky.social. We had 8 great activities. Mia Gane from @uoyphilosophy.bsky.social explored the concept of home through crafts; Matthew Hall from @school-of-act.bsky.social invited participants to build their own bandstand.

Mia behind the exhibition table. Lots of crafts materials such as paint and pencils are on the table and in the background a poster board with different drawings.

Matthew standing holding a ukulele. Behind him blue poster boards and a sign that says 'Build a Bandstand'. On the floor foam tiles and a small drum.

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HRC York @hrcyork.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

This Saturday we are hosting the 'Festival Fringe Family Fun Afternoon' 🎉 We will have 8 activities for families running from 1pm to 4pm in the Ron Cooke Hub and that showcase research projects across the Faculty. No need to book just come along 😊 yorkfestivalofideas.com/2026/calenda...

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Festival Fringe Family Fun Afternoon

Join us for an afternoon of energetic, creative, crafty, puzzling, scientific and historical fun at this year’s Festival Fringe Family Fun Afternoon.

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HRC York @hrcyork.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Last wk we held our annual HRC Doctoral Competition! Five researchers selected by their academic units through a competitive process shared their doctoral research in 10-minute presentations aimed at non-specialists. And what a wonderful set of presentations! All of them now HRC Doctoral Fellows 🎉

Group photo. At the back a projector screen shows 'Humanities Research Centre Doctoral Competition 2026'

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HRC York @hrcyork.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Last week we hosted the HRC Poster Competition! And what a delightful event it was - if we can say so ourselves. We received 16 entries from different academic units across the faculty. Top prizes went for...Joint First Prize...

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HRC York @hrcyork.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Last Wednesday we hosted our annual HRC Poster Competition in Heslington Hall. We received 16 entries from different academic units in our Faculty of Arts and Humanities. It was a wonderful afternoon sharing research and networking. Thanks to all the researchers who participated.

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HRC York @hrcyork.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Join us next Wed 13th May 12pm for our HRC Poster Competition in Hes Hall. 16 postgraduate researchers will be sharing their research posters and how they worked on using design skills to communicate their work to non-specialists. Lunch is provided (is there even learning with no food???!!! 😜)

Researcher standing next to poster board

Researcher smiling next to poster that says 'Performing the country house'

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HRC York @hrcyork.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Our HRC Doctoral Competition is taking place on Tuesday 19th May. We will be welcoming 5 doctoral researchers nominated by their academic units to represent them, who will be sharing their research for non-specialist audiences. Join us in Heslington Hall for a celebration of Arts and Humanities!

Researchers and panelists sitting and standing smiling to the camera

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HRC York @hrcyork.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

On 21st April we are hosting the event "Archives, Libraries & Me: Queer Britain - The National LGBTQ+ Museum London". Jennifer Shearman will be giving an introduction to the Museum and its collections and reflecting on the process of building a museum from scratch! tinyurl.com/yc2avdyn

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Archives, Libraries & Me: Queer Britain - The National LGBTQ+ Museum London

Jennifer Shearman, Head of Programmes & Collections at Queer Britain, will introduce us to the Museum, leading into a roundtable discussion

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HRC York @hrcyork.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

HRC PGR Poster Competition 2026! Deadline for submissions is 29th April! An opportunity to test your skills in communicating your research beyond your own discipline. Open to PhD, MRes and MPhil students from any Arts and Humanities academic unit www.york.ac.uk/hrc/support-...

Researcher smiling in front of poster boards talking to two participants.

Researcher in front of poster board holding a plate with a cup and talking to a participant.

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HRC York @hrcyork.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Inviting Expressions of Interest (EoI) for 2026 MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships. Deadline for EoI is 15th May. First step is to identify and contact a potential supervisor in one of our academic units, who can then complete the EoI with you marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/actions/post...

Heslington Hall, a red brick manor, framed between trees with a green space in front of it. Students are sitting on the lawn relaxing.

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HRC York @hrcyork.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

On 17 April we'll be hosting the online workshop 'Digital Cultural Heritage: showcasing research from the University of York and Virginia Tech'. It will focus on how cutting-edge technologies are transforming how we document, interpret, and experience heritage www.york.ac.uk/hrc/events/2...

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Digital Cultural Heritage: showcasing research from the University of York and Virginia Tech

An online workshop exploring the frontiers of digital innovation, preservation and storytelling.

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HRC York @hrcyork.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Congratulations to our colleagues @richardogden.bsky.social and @marinanc.bsky.social on their grant success! They have been awarded funding by the AHRC and the German Research Foundation (DFG) to explore overlooked and underexplored sounds of conversation—such as sighs, clicks, and laughter.

University of York, Research. Breathing in Talk. "Prof Richard Ogden and colleagues have received AHRC/DFG funding to investigate how breath, sighs and laughter shape conversation." On the right hand side we see the outline of a magnifying class and within it the photo of 3 researchers standing next to a poster of their research.

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HRC York @hrcyork.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

HRC Postdoctoral Fellowships 2026-2027. Open to recent York Arts and Humanities doctoral graduates. The fellowships are non-stipendiary, but come with a research grant of £1,000, HRC Associate status, a bespoke mentorship programme, and desk space www.york.ac.uk/hrc/support-...

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HRC York @hrcyork.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

The HRC Doctoral Competition is back! We love this annual event bringing together top researchers from all of our academic units to share and celebrate their work. This opportunity is open to 3rd year doctoral researchers. You can find more information on our website www.york.ac.uk/hrc/support-...

A group of people, some sitting, some standing indoors, smiling at the camera.

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HRC York @hrcyork.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

HRC PGR Poster Competition 2026! An opportunity to test your skills in communicating your research beyond your own discipline. Deadline for submissions is 29th April and the event is on 13th May www.york.ac.uk/hrc/support-...

3 researchers chatting and smiling in front of a poster board with 2 posters.

2 researchers in front of a poster board chatting.

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HRC York @hrcyork.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Call for contributions to the @yorkfestofideas.bsky.social Fringe Family Fun Afternoon. Push your public engagement skills in an interactive family-friendly setting! The event is on Sat 6th June, the deadline for proposals is 16th March. Check your emails for information on making a submission.

Two researchers at their stand. Behind them posters and in front of them a table full of crafts.

Two researchers at their stand. A table is full of crafts.

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HRC York @hrcyork.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Next Wednesday we are welcoming Dr Ricardo Álvarez, Senior Lecturer at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso (Chile), for a fascinating talk on brass bands and social movements in Chile. More details on our website: york.ac.uk/hrc/events/

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HRC York @hrcyork.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

We are delighted to announce this year's HRC Interdisciplinary Collaborative Events Fund. A fund that enables staff/research students to put together academic research events that benefit multiple disciplines. Deadline: 12pm 6th March. Check your emails for more information😊

Group of workshop attendees looking over a table with post it notes

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HRC York @hrcyork.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

On 26th Feb 10am we are hosting our Postgraduate Researcher Welcome event. There will be tea/cake - key ingredients of every successful welcome/community-building event 🍰 A chance to meet the team, find out more about what the HRC offers, and share your thoughts. More information in your emails.

Photo of Heslington Hall, a red brick manor house, with a green area in front of it and a spring like mood with bright sunshine.

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HRC York @hrcyork.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

We are incredibly proud to announce that Megan Russell has won a Faculty of Arts and Humanities 'Making the Difference' Award. Megan is central to all our work at the HRC and has had a leading role in the move to our new home in Heslington Hall. Huge congratulations! 🎉

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HRC York @hrcyork.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Thrilled to announce the opening of expansive, dedicated study space for all Arts/Humanities PGRs within Heslington Hall. The lower ground floor is your new vibrant hub for interdisciplinary postgraduate research, offering state-of-the-art facilities designed to support your work

Cuddly toy sitting at desk ready to work, papers on the desk and a computer as well as books.

Room with tables and chairs as well as a bookcase

Room with table and chairs and two whiteboards

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HRC York @hrcyork.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Michael Stuart (@miikeessttuuart.bsky.social) from @uoyphilosophy.bsky.social has just been awarded a European Research Council Consolidator Grant to spend 5 years working on the impacts of artificial intelligence on science. Huge congratulations! www.york.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

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Project to examine how AI is changing the way science is done

A new research project is set to investigate how artificial intelligence is extending and transforming the abilities that scientists use to investigate the world.

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HRC York @hrcyork.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Last but not least in the Interdisciplinary Collaborative Events funded by the HRC: the 1st Summer School in Computational Approaches to Historical Linguistics took place in Plovdiv (Bulgaria). Organised by Dimitar Kazakov and Giuseppe Longobardi. More on this in the blog post tinyurl.com/5vhkxkr5

Outdoor group photo of summer school attendees. They are standing in front of a building.

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HRC York @hrcyork.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Call for Papers: Philosophical Psychology Journal - Special Issue on Imagination, Creativity and Artificial Intelligence edited by Department of Philosophy's Fiora Salis and Kengo Miyazono (Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Hokkaido University) Deadline: 31st May tinyurl.com/2ranxkw9

Submit a Manuscript to the Journal Philosophical Psychology for a special issue on Imagination, Creativity and Artificial Intelligence. Manuscript Deadline 31st May 2026. The background image is a light bulb

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HRC York @hrcyork.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Continuing to highlight the Interdisciplinary Collaborative Events funded last summer. We supported 'Norse in the North', an annual event demonstrating the strength and originality of Old Norse research in the North of England, in the form of an interdisciplinary conference tinyurl.com/my6mwhu8

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HRC York @hrcyork.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Happy New Year! 🎉 Here are some photos of our new home Heslington Hall in the snow ⛄️

Heslington Hall photographed through the open gate. There is snow falling and on the ground.

The Quiet Place, outside Heslington Hall, a green area with sculptures photographed in the snow

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HRC York @hrcyork.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Continuing to highlight the Interdisciplinary Collaborative Events funded last summer by the HRC. 'Environmental Art and Activism: Imagining Anthropocene Futures' by Catherine Love-Smith (Arts and Creative Technologies) and Felicia Liu (Environment & Geography) www.york.ac.uk/hrc/support-...

A group of workshop participants standing over a table looking at post-it notes and thinking

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HRC York @hrcyork.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Last academic year the HRC funded a number of Interdisciplinary Collaborative Events led by staff and students. Today and in the next few posts we'll be highlighting the events that were funded and which showcase the wide range of expertise and interests in our Faculty 🎉

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HRC York @hrcyork.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

With the new Grand Egyptian Museum in Cairo described as "one of the most ambitious cultural projects in modern history", Jo Fletcher from @uoyarchaeology.bsky.social was asked for interviews by various international news channels and Egypt's national TV channel Nile News and magazine Akher Sa’a.

Jo holding an umbrella outdoors at an ancient Egypt site

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HRC York @hrcyork.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

HRC's Deputy Director @marianajlopez.bsky.social wrote a blog post about the #DARCI Conference on Disability, Accessibility and Representation in the Creative Industries hosted by @school-of-act.bsky.social as part of the #EnhancingAD project enhancingaudiodescription.com/darci-confer...

Photo of Mariana presenting, holding a mic and a clicker

Photo of audience wearing wireless headphones with blue lights

Photo of Gavin Kearney presenting, holding a microphone and a clicker

Photo of delegates at the National Railway Museum's Wonderlab

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HRC York @hrcyork.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Grace McCulloch from the Archaeology Data Service is leading the workshop 'Unearthing Herbal Histories with Digital Archives' as part of the @beinghumanfest.bsky.social Join the team to create your own herbal remedies, inspired by archaeological evidence www.beinghumanfestival.org/events/unear...

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Unearthing Herbal Histories with Digital Archives

Create your own herbal remedies, inspired by archaeological evidence.This hands-on workshop combines archaeobotanical information from digital archives with traditional herbalism to create remedies, b...

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HRC York @hrcyork.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Welcome to Robin Pawlett-Howell from the Department of Philosophy, one of our new HRC Postdoctoral Fellows! 🎉 Robin's main research specialisations are in existential phenomenology and social/political philosophy.

Photo of Robin sitting on a bench outdoors

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HRC York @hrcyork.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Continuing to introduce our new HRC Postdoctoral Fellows! Today we are welcoming Sarah McKeagney 🎉 Sarah is a late-medieval social historian focusing on law and the courts in 15th century England. Sarah's thesis focused on breach of faith and perjury litigation in late medieval England.

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HRC York @hrcyork.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

We are continuing to welcome our HRC Postdoctoral Fellows! 🎉 Today we are featuring Yorgos Paschos from Archaeology. Yorgos will be conducting research focusing on the role of euphoric value in heritage significance assessment.

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HRC York @hrcyork.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Welcome to Lore Lixenberg, one of this year's HRC Postdoctoral Fellows. Lore will explore how AI can reimagine the vocal and compositional techniques of the medieval composer Guillaume de Machaut, asking how new technologies might offer new ways of engaging with medieval music.

Lore presenting at the Tate, standing at a lectern with a laptop and performing/speaking to a mic. Lore is wearing sunglasses.

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HRC York @hrcyork.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Introducing you to our new HRC Postdoctoral Fellows! 🎉 We are welcoming Ishita Krishna from @school-of-act.bsky.social Ishita's research engages with a study of objects in western modernist drama, looking at different representations of objects, objectification, and subject-object encounters.

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HRC York @hrcyork.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Introducing you to our new HRC Postdoctoral Fellows! 🎉 We are delighted to be welcoming Bryony Aitchison, whose PhD explored queer gardens in the poetry and life writing of modernist women writers. She examined how the embodied act of gardening generates queer organic forms in modernist texts.

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HRC York @hrcyork.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Delighted to be welcoming Xinrui Zhang from History of Art as an HRC Postdoctoral Fellow 🎉 Xinrui's doctoral research examined how international artists have facilitated public discourse on China’s ecological issues in relation to the country’s environmental governance.

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HRC York @hrcyork.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Introducing the 2025-2026 HRC Postdoctoral Fellows 🎉starting with @marisapmichaud.bsky.social whose PhD examined an illuminated manuscript of the hagiography of Colette of Corbie examining the early visual culture of the Colettine Poor Clares.

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HRC York @hrcyork.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Throwback to the Doctoral Competition back in May! We are really proud of our wonderful HRC Doctoral Fellows, selected by their academic units through a competitive process. In May we all got together to hear about their wonderful work and for an exciting prize giving event.

Photo taken from the back of the room, we see the seated audience and at the front of the room a projector screen that says 'Announcement of Winners'. Karen Baker is doing the announcements at the centre and Mariana Lopez and Craig Taylor are standing to the sides of the room.

Photo taken from the back of the room, we can see the seated audience and Karen Baker announcing the winners next to a screen that says 'Announcement of winners'

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HRC York @hrcyork.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Aimee Little and Andy Needham, Department of Archaeology's @cama-york.bsky.social have just released some new research with colleagues from the University of Helsinki, identifying how Mesolithic people may have extracted animal teeth for personal ornaments link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Rows of animal teeth of different shapes and sizes

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HRC York @hrcyork.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Congratulations to Lesley Schatzberger, who teaches clarinet at @school-of-act.bsky.social and was awarded an OBE in the King’s Birthday Honours 2025 for services to children with life-limiting illnesses and communication difficulties jessiesfund.org.uk/founder-lesl...

A child's hands around a clarinet. The child here is both feeling the vibrations of the clarinet and invited to respond on the drum.

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