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On Academic Writing, or not writing Academically
Recently, I participated in a workshop organised by The Feminist Review Collective, where we started the discussion by creating a wordcloud of words that, we are told, are not academic. Overwhelmingly then, the cloud grew with words of affect – ‘joy’ ‘I feel’, ‘sentimental’, ‘softness’, ‘I reckon’ – these were some of the words I…
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Why the Humanities are indispensable for Open Research
Conversations about Open Research are dominated by technical jargon around copyright, licensing and different paths to publishing open access. If you do a quick search, you are bound to hear quite flat sounding terms like ‘institutional rights repository’, ‘diamond access’ or maybe the slightly more bombastic – ‘Transformative Agreements’. I started a new job as…
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Our Film in the Discovery Museum!
I’m so excited to share that the oral history film I worked on is now part of an exhibition at the Discovery Museum in Newcastle! The exhibition, Our Voice: Apni Aawaaz, opens on 21 July and runs until 10 November 2025. It celebrates the powerful, personal stories of first-generation South Asian women who made their…
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