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Excellent event for our festive Postgrad Research in the Humanities at Wolves showcase w/ Bas Groes Kerry Hadley-Pryce (Dr. KHP) and R. M. Francis this evening.
On Sunday 4 Feb at the Wolves Lit Fest, @Writing_Path & Dr Denise Saul & I talk about the relationship between people and their brains. We also explore creative writing to help people w acquired brain injury to navigate their road to recovery. See: wolvesliteraturefestival.co.uk/events/right-i…
I'm delighted to announce that University of Wolverhampton's English and Creative Writing scholars have joined forces with writers from Ukraine and the Black Country in a unique book reflecting on Russia's war against Ukraine. Proceeds to go to Ukraine! Full story here: bit.ly/3Uh2DAt
Please join R. M. Francis Carmel Doohan Kerry Hadley-Pryce (Dr. KHP) Dr Kuli Kohli and various Ukrainian writers in Wolverhampton on Saturday 3 February for the first in a series of launch events: wolvesliteraturefestival.co.uk/events/writing….
WLV academic Bas Groes has joined forces with Ukrainian and Black Country writers to publish a unique collection of writing that reflects on the impact on the country in the two years since the war started. The launch will take part as part of Wolverhampton Literature Festival. More info 👉
As Bas Groes says, this is a lovely piece by Disabled PhDStudent on tiktok, about Wolverhampton, and Bas's event at the recent Wolverhampton Literature Festival. We have both Dr Denise Saul's beautiful poetry, The Room Between Us, and Bas Groes's highly original stroke memoir Right in the Head in stock.
Interested in using new technologies for literary research? In collaboration with CLS INFRA | @CLSinfra@fedihum | @clsinfra.bsky & CLARIN UK, Postgrad Research in the Humanities at Wolves stages the UK's first ever Computational Literary Studies Training School. It's your chance to upskill w/ pioneering scholars. Details: bit.ly/3vcN3vl
Great impact work by Rob! 👌🏾The Big Bookshare project is Arts Council England funded follow-on work based on the Arts and Humanities Research Council funded Novel Perceptions research on biases in British reading cultures.
Supported by the Being Human Festival, we'll launch WRITING UNDER FIRE, University of Wolverhampton's book with writers from Ukraine and the Black Country in London on Sat 18 May, 7PM. There will be music, Holobtsi (Ukrainian stuffed cabbage) and performances. Register here: bit.ly/3U6JkIg
Meet Pinocchio. He thinks he can mimic the human soul. He'll play a role in a talk, this Friday in Oxford, by Bas Groes and Postgrad Research in the Humanities at Wolves & University of Wolverhampton PG students. This Daiwa Foundation event is free and is a part of WLVUNIParamedic's UN/REAL project. Register at: bit.ly/4bSGOwzl
Delighted to co-organise the POSTHUMAN FICTIONS conference at Genoa University, 19-20 September. Some of the cool people involved are Peter Boxall, Sonia Baelo & Alex Goody. The setting is not bad either. Info: bit.ly/3VPZKWf Postgrad Research in the Humanities at Wolves #posthumanfictions
After 2 years of work and huge amounts of support from Bas Groes Pete Harvey and Postgrad Research in the Humanities at Wolves I just submitted my Geopoetic Wayfinders application for the AHRC Curiosity Award. Time for a victory dance youtu.be/gM6kZabHf4w?si…
Here is a podcast I recorded with Ibrahim Imam for The Neurology Lounge about my memoir RIGHT IN THE HEAD, which has now led to an Arts Council England funded creative project helping stroke survivors. You can buy the book, here: bit.ly/3QGM2CE youtu.be/FPKTjQkZ2no
