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🤔 What can help build a community and boost your reading skills? Of course, Reading Groups! 📚 Check out a new blog post from Kirsten Somerville & Julia from The Glasgow School of Art to discover tips on setting up your own group and the benefits of regular academic exchange ⤵️ rebrand.ly/bhytt90

🌍 People & Nature: Join us on 4 Nov to help shape a community science project that collects stories of nature connections across Glasgow’s West End. 🌱📱 🕒 3-4.30 pm / 5.30-7 pm 📍 ARC, University of Glasgow Sign up: forms.office.com/pages/response… tea, snacks, & a £10 Thank you voucher!

Coming up this week: how can collaborative artmaking with bioplastics facilitate transformative ecopedagogies?

Looking to teach Climate Justice through arts-based and rights-based approaches? Join us for this Zoom session where we will explore what Climate Justice is and how it can be made accessible for young people, and arts-based methods for taking action. 🔗eventbrite.co.uk/e/creative-cla…

Yesterday was a bad day for the climate, but it was a good day to take part in public engagement training with Climate Outreach. If you're concerned about the kinds of climate stories being told, check this out to find out how to tell better ones. climateoutreach.org/experts/

Upcoming Event: Talk About Climate Change...Without Saying 1.5C Monday, 2 December, 2024. 12 noon to 1pm, Online. In this session we’ll explore the language that research has shown to be most effective for communicating about climate change. Sign up: eventbrite.co.uk/e/talk-about-c…

Humanities field trips 💚

"In the face of extinction threats, a poem seems a particularly puny adversary. Poetry might not make things happen, but it can make us see things differently, especially in times of crisis."

What do Auchenshuggle, Barlinnie, Garthamlock, & Shettleston have in common? Find out more from Dr Alasdair C. Whyte in his talk 'Glasgow's Gaelic Place-Names' 📆 Weds 20 Nov ⏰ 7-8pm 🎟️ Free, booking essential. In person tickets sold out, online tickets still available.

Hey folks in sciences.. if your research questions border/intersect with social sciences or humanities, and you use qualitative research methods, please DM me!!!

Hello––I'm interested in poetry & songs written to protest against harm to rivers or to protect them from harm. Not just paeans to rivers, of which there are many. But words to protest or protect. Can you recommend? Wd like to grow a list. Any century, language, culture, custom.

Keep Scotland Beautiful excited to share 2 new #wastestories wastestories.org.uk/marine-litter/…: "Arrochar and the Waste of the World", a true story made with grab.org.uk and illustrated by creative triangle, and "Murdo and Meg Clean Up the Seas", a super-optimistic tale by wonderful Ron Butlin

Last reading group of 2024, on the festive topic of eco-grief and climate anxiety 🎄

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Storyboarding my research journey, featuring books, trees and doomscrolling... Really enjoyed this SGSSS training on storytelling for research with Joanna Wheeler. Thanks to Kike Ladipo and Daisy Bao for facilitating 🌟

After an insightful two days at the SGSSS Understanding Education event, I managed to pop into V&A Dundee before my train home. Delighted to discover this excellent exhibition exploring landscape, language and architecture across Scotland.

Two project PhD studentships are now live - if you work with Masters cohorts in this area or are a part of linked networks please do share the opportunities!

🌿 New Paper + Call for Chapters 🌿 "Postdigital Nature Connection" I’m launching a call for chapters on postdigital nature connection for a new book with Springer Nature. If you're researching tech-nature entanglements, let's connect! Details here: drive.google.com/file/d/1Ky0jcL…

The crisis of literacy is fundamental to the current crisis of democracy: thespec.com/life/students-…