This post was inspired by a Twitter conversation… What does participation in the university classroom mean? I know that for me it once meant talking about and discussing a reading and then a bunch of primary sources. Have my ideas changed? No, not really. But I’m changing what I think participation means in a wider sense… Continue reading Notes on Seminar Participation
I’ve spent the last of couple of weeks re-reading academic books and articles that I first read when I was an MA and PhD student. It’s been fun, tiring and unnerving. I’m mainly reading and pondering for a book chapter that I’ve been asked to write for Jane Hamlett’s edited collection on the nineteenth-century home.… Continue reading Re-reading: A personal note
by Harry Coughlan For my Independent Study I choose to write and record a song taken from an imaginary Music Hall production titled ‘Classless Society’. The rationale behind writing and performing a song, as a mock primary source from the Victorian era, was the fact that the Music Hall became such a prominent pastime in… Continue reading Harry Coughlan, ‘Slum Girl’ Song
by Billie-Gina Thomason. Billie has recently graduated from LJMU with a History and English degree. She will be returning to LJMU next year to take the MRes in History. She plans to research trans* identity in the nineteenth and twentieth century. I chose to write a diary for a creative portfolio in my Victorian Cities… Continue reading Billie-Gina Thomason, Creating a Diary of Thomas Son
By Andrew Madden. Andrew has recently graduated from LJMU with a BA in History. For this assignment Lucie asked us to create an output that had some relevance to the course. My first thought was to create a collage on the changing face of Liverpool, from the Victorian Era until the present day. But then I… Continue reading Andrew Madden, Board Game Antics
By Laura Fitzpatrick. Laura has recently graduated from Liverpool John Moores where she completed a dissertation on the Victorian circus and freak show performer. From next year she will be joining the University of Manchester where she plans to research disability, lesiure and performance in the 19th and 20th Centuries. She blogs here: lauralouisefitz.wordpress.com During the… Continue reading Laura Fitzpatrick, Slumming Account & the Middle-Class imagination
It’s funny how the things you end up really enjoy in teaching are the ones you have accidentally stumbled upon. This is certainly the case with the final assessment of my third-year Victorian Cities module. Having decided that the first two assessments for this module would be a 1,000 word source reflection (20%) and a… Continue reading Students taking Ownership of Assessments: My Creative and Independent Project
I wrote this a few months ago for our press office. I thought I would share it here. I also write a blog on this day for HistoryLab Plus, which you can read here. Lucinda Matthews-Jones (History) co-organised ‘Teaching and Technology: Making Digital History’ with History Lab Plus, the Institute of Historical Research’s network for… Continue reading Teaching and Technology: Making Digital History event
You’re all probably rolling your eyes and thinking ‘Get over yourself Lucie. You’re starting to flog a bit of a dead horse now’… But, I’m a little excited. This has been a really great semester for me. I’ve got some great things in the pipeline. But, at the moment I’m most pleased with the reaction… Continue reading The Impact of Paper
I’m writing this post in response to the recent Times Higher Education piece ‘Is ‘academic citizenship’ under strain?’ by John Morgan and Chris Havergal. I found this to be an interesting and thought provoking article. They discussed how academic citizenship concealed a host of activities that were necessary but largely undervalued by the sector. They… Continue reading The Academic Star
