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Polina Gavin

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

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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
On #covid day of reflection 2025, remember the rise of covid mutual aid groups that helped people self-isolate, did people's shopping, provided emotional support etc. etc. blogs.sussex.ac.uk/crowdsidenti...
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Robbie Love @robbielove.org · 28/02/2025
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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Ilaria Scaglia @ilariascaglia.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Please welcome to Bluesky the Aston University Archives @astonunarchives.bsky.social Follow, tag, do your magic!
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Polina Gavin @polinagavin.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Send us your love (or the abstract) until the end of the week #PALA2025 ❤️
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Polina Gavin @polinagavin.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
This week students are flying their feedback for the mid-term module evaluation ✈️
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Annayah M.B. Prosser @annayahprosser.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
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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Amélie Doche @ladoche.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
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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Helen Ringrow @helenringrow.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
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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Toolkit launched to support young women with body image
A toolkit designed to promote a positive body image among young people in Portsmouth has been launched.
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Amélie Doche @ladoche.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Very happy to have presented my research on desire in qualitative research at #QRS2025! 😁
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EngLangBlog @englangblog.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
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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UK's hierarchy of accents: 'I thought mine made me sound stupid'
Sociolinguists say accent bias is prevalent in the UK and affects how people are perceived by classmates, colleagues and friends.
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Polina Gavin @polinagavin.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
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Polina Gavin @polinagavin.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
This was such an inspiring evening listening to wonderfully talented poets! www.aston.ac.uk/latest-news/...
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Aston University hosts creative responses to the pandemic through poetry showcase
Over 50 poets, academics, students and members of the public attended the event at Aston Business School in Birmingham
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Joanna Gavins @joannagavins.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
🌱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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Polina Gavin @polinagavin.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
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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Polina Gavin @polinagavin.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
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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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 14/12/2024
🧠👩‍👦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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<em>Journal of Marriage and Family</em> | NCFR Family Science Journal | Wiley Online Library
Objective This article examines whether domestic cognitive labor functions like other forms of domestic labor as a means to “do gender.” Background Domestic cognitive labor is increasingly concept.....
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Polina Gavin @polinagavin.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
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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Polina Gavin @polinagavin.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
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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Polina Gavin @polinagavin.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
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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Polina Gavin @polinagavin.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Great! Listening for my next run sorted 👀
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Joanna Gavins @joannagavins.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
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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Plastic: Unwrapped - Professor Joanna Gavins - Off The Shelf
This podcast explores our relationship with one of the most ubiquitous and controversial materials on the planet: plastic. Over three episodes, Professor Joanna Gavins talks to experts from a range of...
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Pre-Raphaelite Society @preraphaelitesoc.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
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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Lucy Jones @lucyjones.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
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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Ethical practice in participant-centred linguistic research
This article outlines ethical principles for ‘participant-centred linguistic research’ (PCLR), a term we coin to incorporate a range of linguistic research approaches that place importance on the invo...
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