Applied linguist at The Open University. Interested in academic and professional writing, literacy practices and corpus linguistics #OUWiSP
Oxford, UK
Joined October 2009
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How and why are social workers portrayed negatively in the media? New article in community care @ouwisp @OU_LAL communitycare.co.uk/?p=20164…
Great to have our blogpost on YA fiction published ourfp.org/publications/blog/…
@SallyHuntSA @SJMukherjee0702 @OpenUni_RfP
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Please share widely - I'm trying to reach students for this survey
Calling all UK secondary school students and librarians! Please take our survey on YA fiction. We'd love to hear your views 😀.
openeducation.eu.qualtrics.c…
wels.open.ac.uk/research/pro…
Please share widely - I'm trying to reach students for this survey
Calling all UK secondary school students and librarians! Please take our survey on YA fiction. We'd love to hear your views 😀.
openeducation.eu.qualtrics.c…
wels.open.ac.uk/research/pro…
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🌟 Finalists for the 2024 BASW Social Work Journalism Awards have been announced! 🌟
🧵 Follow our thread below to find out the finalists in each of our eight award categories!
#SWJournalismAwards24
ALT BASW Social Work Journalism Awards
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Great work @MariaLeedham our campaigning will continue on this important media issue. We are looking forward to meeting @Ofcom next month with @CampaignsHQ
Are social workers always the bad guys on TV? New paper explores this.... @BASW_UK @swu @OU_WELS
Depictions of social workers and other caring professionals on television - Maria Leedham, 2024 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
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@OU_WELS new Wels research project!
Check out our new blog post on our research on best-selling young-adult fiction @marialeedham and @sallyhuntsa wels.open.ac.uk/research/pro… #DoRA
Are social workers always the bad guys on TV? New paper explores this.... @BASW_UK @swu @OU_WELS
Depictions of social workers and other caring professionals on television - Maria Leedham, 2024 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
Brilliant blog post about the misinformation resulting from a single case
Dear BBC, you've got your facts wrong about 'trans milk', by @millihill open.substack.com/pub/millih…
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Very happy to announce an academic workshop @OpenUniversity at Milton Keynes and online, on the topic "Is Sport a Human Right?" March 8th-9th. Lots of top speakers, with all sorts of different perspectives, from law, philosophy and sport policy. ...
eventbrite.co.uk/e/is-sport-…
Our promo video for @OU_WELS #L301 lanuage, literature and childhood is now on YouTube 😀 youtu.be/nJFSwkUL0Xw?si=kXLi…
@OUDALEL @SJMukherjee0702 @SallyHuntSA @anthrostream @tuck_jackie please RT
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Homelessness and rough sleeping is not a lifestyle choice.
The Home Secretary's recent comments on this issue are deeply unhelpful & misguided. Instead, the UK Government should double-down on tackling the housing crisis.
Read our full statement⬇️
new.basw.co.uk/articles/basw…
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Thank you @lauramucha 🌟from the @OU_WELS Language, Literature and Childhood module team for your beautiful Celebrate! book illustrated by @hannahtolson . Another fabulous book for #L301 students to explore. @MariaLeedham @SallyHuntSA @anthrostream
Are negative media attitudes towards social workers still widespread? communitycare.co.uk/2023/10/… @BASW_UK @SWU_UK
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Is October the month of Corpus Linguistics?
I made this list for my students with all the upcoming Corpus talks that were shared with me, but it might be useful to more people here, so here is the link
docs.google.com/document/d/1…
