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Xsara Helmi 🇬🇧 🇪🇬 🇸🇪 🇺🇸 @xsarahelmi.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Greater Manchester Combined Authority is seeking members for the newly established Greater #Manchester Creative Consortium. Applications are welcomed from people with relevant experience across the creative industries. Closing date: 8th October andersonquigley.com/job/aq3719/

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Creative Consortium Member, Greater Manchester Combined Authority, UK | AQ Jobs

Greater Manchester Combined Authority seeks to appoint Creative Consortium Member to join their leadership team. Job located in Manchester UK.

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Xsara Helmi 🇬🇧 🇪🇬 🇸🇪 🇺🇸 @xsarahelmi.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

If you are in a situation where staff bullying is being buried within your institution or covered up, 'Fight the Academic Bullies' provides an interactive world map of independent organisations you can turn to: dictionaryofml.org/fight-the-ac... #bullying #academia #academicmobbing #toxicacademia

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Fight the Academic Bullies — where to turn

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Xsara Helmi 🇬🇧 🇪🇬 🇸🇪 🇺🇸 @xsarahelmi.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Wonderful two days at the International Creative Research Methods Conference organised by @drhelenkara.bsky.social and sponsored by @uomcreativemcr.bsky.social It was a great lineup of presentations talks bridging the sciences and creative methods. #ICRMC26 #creativeresearchmethods

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Xsara Helmi 🇬🇧 🇪🇬 🇸🇪 🇺🇸 @xsarahelmi.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

A few days attending the @britaesthetics.bsky.social annual conference @ox.ac.uk A pleasure to support one of my external advisors Jon Robson who presented 'Is Aesthetic Testimony Cheating? #Aesthetics #philosophy #Oxford

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Xsara Helmi 🇬🇧 🇪🇬 🇸🇪 🇺🇸 @xsarahelmi.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

🎉To Hollowman Jendor on #TalkingtotheEagle! 🦅 Essentials #grime crew veteran delivers, honoured to have done news presenter intros for Track 10 and Track 15: 'Best on the Block' & 'Talk to Me Nice'. Years ago, I dreamt of an Eagle speaking to Jermaine. The Eagle has LANDED! lnkd.in/e-skWYvZ

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Talking To The Eagle - Album by Hollowman Jendor | Spotify

Hollowman Jendor · album · 2026 · 22 songs

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Xsara Helmi 🇬🇧 🇪🇬 🇸🇪 🇺🇸 @xsarahelmi.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

What does a hospital sound like through #autistic ears? In Vol.2 of the @crmethodsjnl.bsky.social by @bupjournals.bsky.social this article explores autistic auditory experience through a Transdisciplinary #artsbasedresearch approach. #music #creativeresearchmethods www.linkedin.com/posts/journa...

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Xsara Helmi 🇬🇧 🇪🇬 🇸🇪 🇺🇸 @xsarahelmi.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

1/3 Thank you to the London Arts-Based Research Centre @labrc.bsky.social for inviting me to speak at the Sacred Arts 2026 Conference @ox.ac.uk ‘The #NuminousEar: #Autistic Listening and #AuralDiversity as Sacred Experience’ After time away due to a broken voice, returning felt deeply healing.🙏🏼✨️

A photograph taken from the back of a conference room during a presentation. In the distance, a speaker stands at the front beside a desk, addressing the audience. The room is softly lit, with attendees seated facing forward toward the presentation screen.

A panel of four speakers seated in chairs at the front of a conference room answering audience questions, while the panel host leans toward a screen for online attendees. Audience members are seated facing the panel in a softly lit room.

A still image captured from a video by the London Arts-Based Research Centre showing an audience member asking a question during a panel discussion on the sacred, embodiment, and the sensory. The panel speakers are seated at the front of the room.

A photograph of two books sold at the Sacred Arts 2026 conference hosted by the London Arts-Based Research Centre. The books are titled The Sacred & Divine Arts and The Art of Knowing: Women, Creativity and Cultural Change.

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Helen Kara @drhelenkara.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

We’re delighted to welcome @uomcreativemcr.bsky.social as a sponsor for #ICRMC this year! Their focus on innovative, collaborative, and interdisciplinary research makes them a great fit for the conference. #ICRMC26 #CRMethods

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Penn State University Press @psupress.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Now published! Scholars are increasingly turning to sensation for new frameworks to understand our situated, bodily responses to rapidly changing environments. SENSORY RHETORICS puts rhetoric into conversation with sensory studies writ large. Save 30% w/ promo code NR26. ow.ly/l4Ci50YWELz

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Xsara Helmi 🇬🇧 🇪🇬 🇸🇪 🇺🇸 @xsarahelmi.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Barcelona Cathedral, begun in 1298, completed by the 15th century. A Gothic monument dedicated to Saint Eulalia, Barcelona’s co-patron saint (alongside the Virgin of Mercy), with a 19th-century facade overlooking Plaça de la Seu. #BarcelonaCathedral #Cathedral #Spain #SacredArt #photography

Intricately detailed gold altar inside Barcelona Cathedral, the Gothic Cathedral of the Holy Cross and Saint Eulalia.

Black Madonna statue inside Barcelona Cathedral surrounded by ornate gold decoration, with dried flowers arranged at the base of the shrine.

Gothic interior of Barcelona Cathedral with soaring vaulted ceilings and a large circular black candle fixture hanging overhead.

Outdoor fountain filled with roses and surrounded by sheaves of wheat arranged as decoration.

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Policy Press @policypress.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Book launch: Insights into Creative and Participatory Research. 📚 As social scientists increasingly turn to creative and participatory methods, this book explores their power to democratise research, amplify participant voices and drive impact. 📅Tues, 12 May, 1:00 PM: ow.ly/plOL50YV37M

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Xsara Helmi 🇬🇧 🇪🇬 🇸🇪 🇺🇸 @xsarahelmi.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Grateful to have 'Hospital Noises' on #autistic auditory perception, featured by the editors @crmethodsjnl.bsky.social (@brisunipress.bsky.social / @policypress.bsky.social) It is open access until 31 Aug 2026 for anyone interested in hospital soundscapes! #AuralDiversity #CreativeResearchMethods

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Journal of Creative Research Methods @crmethodsjnl.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

🔍 Explore the latest collection of papers, handpicked by the editors for the Editors' Choice Collection. Read the papers for free until 31 August. Congrats to all featured authors! 👏 bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/subject/jcrm...

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Xsara Helmi 🇬🇧 🇪🇬 🇸🇪 🇺🇸 @xsarahelmi.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

The Mystic Keats Online Course Exploring Keats through Rumi and Sufism Six weeks: 10 June – 15 July. Read the six odes alongside Rumi and the Sufi tradition. Discover how Keats’s transcendent insights echo lived Sufi realities. chickpeapress.co.uk/courses/ #keats #poetry #rumi #sufism #mysticism

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Xsara Helmi 🇬🇧 🇪🇬 🇸🇪 🇺🇸 @xsarahelmi.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Palau de la Música Catalana, built between 1905 – 1908 by architect Lluís Domènech i Montaner. UNESCO World Heritage site exemplifying Catalan Modernisme, celebrated for its vibrant mosaics, columns, and glass skylight. #Barcelona #CatalanModernisme #Modernisme #ArtNouveau #photography #Music

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Xsara Helmi 🇬🇧 🇪🇬 🇸🇪 🇺🇸 @xsarahelmi.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

"When everyone is trying to be something, be nothing. Range with emptiness." –Shams Tabrizi Some photos I took. #CostaBrava #Spain #photography #nature #rumi

Man walking alone along a beach under a blue-tinted sky, with sweeping, dramatic clouds stretching across the background.

Dark, ominous storm clouds loom over a beach and sea, casting a heavy shadow across the shoreline and water.

Vibrant beach with deep blue water and warm orange-toned sand, creating a bold contrast along the shoreline.

Palm trees silhouetted against a bright yellow sky, with blue sea and sandy shore creating strong color contrast.

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Xsara Helmi 🇬🇧 🇪🇬 🇸🇪 🇺🇸 @xsarahelmi.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Spending a quiet moment at St Julian’s Church and Shrine. This is where the anchoress Julian of Norwich wrote Revelations of Divine Love in the 14th century, the first book in English known to be written by a woman. "...All manner of thing shall be well." ✨ #JulianofNorwich #Numinous #Mysticism

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Eastern Eye News @easterneye.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Care leavers are 3x more likely to be out of work 📉 40% are NEET—yet employers aren’t making real changes 🤔 Time for action, not promises 💼✨ #CareLeavers #InclusiveHiring #YouthEmployment #SocialImpact #EqualOpportunities #DoBetter www.easterneye.biz/care-leavers...

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Broken Promises: Why Care Leavers Are Still Being Left Behind

Despite job schemes, many young people leaving care remain locked out of work

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Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

MA Scholarship Award for scholars of colour. In 2026, we plan to offer two scholarships of £4,000 each, to contribute to the costs of postgraduate study. This scholarship is open to candidates studying on either a full time or a part time basis. Apply by 15 July 2026 rensoc.org.uk/apply/schola...

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Apply: Scholars of Colour Scholarship | Society for Renaissance Studies

Promoting the study of the Renaissance since 1967

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Peter (Wry T) Wright @wrt-t.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

New study gives the #AgedCare industry insights about enduring impact of childhood institutionalisation #CareLeaver #Trauma #InstitutionalAbuse Australia www.monash.edu/medicine/new...

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New study gives the aged care industry insights about enduring impact of childhood institutionalisation

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Frank M. Ingilæ📎 @frankmingila.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Skikkelig fint i dag. #Tanafjorden

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Existential Comics @existentialcomics.com · 04/01/2026

If you want to spread democracy, start with your workplace.

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Mikkel Flohr @mflohr.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Did Jürgen Habermas just die on the same day as Karl Marx?

Picture of Jürgen Habermas in front of books

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Xsara Helmi 🇬🇧 🇪🇬 🇸🇪 🇺🇸 @xsarahelmi.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

This is good, but I wish UCAS would begin to record the statistics for #careleavers and #careexperienced who end up doing PhDs and postgraduate study also. There is a lack of any data on this.

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Nina Danon @ninadanon.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

I am very excited to introduce you to the Neurodivergent Music Network, a cross-disciplinary hub for neurodivergent researchers exploring the intersection between music and neurodivergence. Our mission is to collectively establish Neurodivergent Music Studies as a distinct academic field.

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Neurodivergent Music Network Membership

Membership with NMN is free. About us: The Neurodivergent Music Network (NMN) is a cross-disciplinary hub for neurodivergent researchers to explore the intersection between music and neurodivergence...

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Xsara Helmi 🇬🇧 🇪🇬 🇸🇪 🇺🇸 @xsarahelmi.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Grateful for my 1st paper being published ‘HOSPITAL NOISES: Sonic Autobiography and the Embodied Experience of Autistic Auditory Perception – A Transdisciplinary Arts-Practice Inquiry’ - Journal of Creative Research Methods 2:1, early view April @brisunipress.bsky.social #autism #abr #PaR #academia

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Journal of Creative Research Methods @crmethodsjnl.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

⭐ Enjoy free access to our journal Editors’ top three articles from recent issues. Access the Editors' Choice Collection until 30 April 🔓 Congrats to all featured authors! @sarahjtracy.bsky.social bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/subject/jcrm...

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Su-ming Khoo @sumingkhoo.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Look! Includes our new journal @crmethodsjnl.bsky.social with @brisunipress.bsky.social 🎉🎉🎉

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Xsara Helmi 🇬🇧 🇪🇬 🇸🇪 🇺🇸 @xsarahelmi.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Grateful to have my first published poem 'To be Unmade' in Issue #9 of the literary and arts journal, Indelible (theme: Awakening) by the London Arts-Based Research Centre (@labrc.bsky.social). Out Oct 11 → indeliblelit.com Cover artist: Pamela Chrabieh #poetry #ArtsBasedResearch #PaR #poetry

Artwork shows a woman’s face against a red background. Her neck transforms into green grass, and her head blossoms into flowers. One eye is bright green and visible, while the other is hidden beneath petals.

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Xsara Helmi 🇬🇧 🇪🇬 🇸🇪 🇺🇸 @xsarahelmi.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Registration is open for 'Women Transforming Classical Music', a free 6-week online course to diversify repertoire by including more works by women composers. Launch will be held online, Friday, Sep 19th, 10am- 12pm (UK/ROI time) www.open.edu/openlearn/hi... #music #classicalmusic #womeninmusic

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Women transforming classical music

Women transforming classical music is a free course aimed at helping individual performers, ensembles and organisations within the classical music industry to diversify their repertoire by ...

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Journal of Creative Research Methods @crmethodsjnl.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

📣 Coming soon: The Journal of Creative Research Methods📣 We’re a home for researchers who are thinking, questioning, or approaching research in a creative way 💡 Learn more bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/journals/jou... #RGS2025 #RGS25

Journal of Creative Research Methods.
We accept submissions of:
Creative, qualitative, quantitative, or multi-modal research;
Creative arts-based research;
Creative digital research;
Creative research using transformative research frameworks;
Creative adaptations of existing methods.

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