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Report: Bridging the Gap
There’s a new “Bridging the Gap” report on the arts and humanities in the UK. It’s the result of a one-year examination of how to improve collaborative funding-based projects with external partners. The universities were outside London, and the partners ranged from monoliths (such as the BBC and the National Trust) to local museums, theatres […]
The 2017 Arts Index – a broadly positive picture for the UK
21 Nov 2017 at 06:22
David Haden
Arts cuts, Creative industries, Teaching, Zeitgeist
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Ahead of the Budget, the advocacy organization National Campaign for the Arts has its bi-annual report out, on the health of UK arts funding. The 2017 Arts Index has been updated with statistics from 2014/15 and 2015/16. Note that they’ve translated all their figures into “per person”, which means the ever-rising UK population will appear […]
Lecturer in Popular Fiction, Birmingham
09 Nov 2017 at 15:17
David Haden
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Lecturer in Popular Fiction, University of Birmingham, UK. “The successful candidate will have research expertise in popular genre fiction (with Horror, the Thriller, Noir, Mystery, or Young/New Adult as areas of research interest that would be particularly desirable).” On the slim assumption that this is a rare English Literature centre that hasn’t effectively become a […]
Graphic Medicine
Graphic Medicine : the interaction of comics & healthcare. A lively and dedicated website complete with: an occasional podcast; a “This Week in Graphic Medicine” digest; comics reviews; and an annual conference (2018: Vermont / 2019: Brighton, UK).
Senior Lecturer in Games Art
05 Jun 2017 at 13:28
David Haden
Birmingham, Creative industries, Gaming, Teaching
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Lovely job… Coventry University wants a Senior Lecturer in Games Art, at up to £52k full-time. Ref: REQ005098.
1000 volunteer mentors needed
05 Jun 2017 at 13:04
David Haden
Birmingham, Creative industries, Regeneration, Teaching
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The new elected Mayor of the inner West Midlands is seeking 1000 volunteer mentors to help guide unemployed young people into the world of work. Sounds good. Though so far as I can tell it only covers the inner ‘Greater Birmingham’ bit of the West Midlands, not the real West Midlands.
Birmingham City University – research repository
24 Nov 2016 at 17:15
David Haden
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Birmingham City University has just launched a public research repository. Currently it’s too new to be indexed by Google, which would enable one to discover if there’s actually any full-text open access PDFs in there. Most record pages I tried were “full-text not available”, even when one went back a year or two. Which seems […]
Devil’s Dictionary of Learning Technologies
26 Oct 2016 at 16:40
David Haden
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A Devil’s Dictionary of Learning Technologies… Failure, “A temporary practice educators encourage in students, which schools then ruthlessly, publicly, and permanently punish.” Flipped classroom, “The practice of replacing lectures that instructors give to summarize a course’s readings with videos of lectures that summarize a course’s readings.”
Coin Curator at the Barber Institute
30 Sep 2016 at 06:25
David Haden
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Wow, what a fabulous job. Coin Curator at the Barber Institute, University of Birmingham… “The Barber Institute is home to one of the finest collections in the world of Roman, Byzantine, medieval Islamic and medieval and modern Hungarian coins. The Byzantine section is arguably second only to that at Dumbarton Oaks. The whole collection consists […]
Postgrad student loans
24 Jul 2016 at 21:38
David Haden
Artist(s), Creative industries, Teaching
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The government’s new postgrad student loans are here. If you plan to take a Masters course from 1st August 2016, you can apply for a loan of up to £10,000 to help with course fees and living costs. All types of courses are eligible, including media and the arts. Payback only starts when you start […]
Lunar Society conference
Lunarticks, Linnaeus and Lichfield Conference 2016… “… in celebration of the 250th anniversary of the Lunar Society. This two day conference will be held at Erasmus Darwin House … an extensive programme of speakers covering a variety of topics relating to the Lunar Society”
Oxford Dictionary of Original Shakespearean Pronunciation
27 Mar 2016 at 16:48
David Haden
Birmingham, Entertainment, Reading, Teaching
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The Oxford University Press has a new video-interview today, on an outstanding new project… “Over ten years, David Crystal has constructed an entire dictionary of Shakespeare’s Original Pronunciation — with guidance on how every single word in the First Folio would most likely have been heard by Shakespeare’s audiences.” The book is the new The […]
Photographers’ Identities Catalog
27 Mar 2016 at 08:11
David Haden
Mapping, Photographers, Teaching
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PIC – the Photographers’ Identities Catalog. Sadly my Web browser wasn’t deemed worthy enough to enter, but yours may have better luck. “Photographers’ Identities Catalog (PIC) is an experimental interface to a collection of biographical data describing photographers, studios, manufacturers, and others involved in the production of photographic images. Consisting of names, nationalities, dates, locations […]
Society of Indexers comes to Birmingham
21 Feb 2016 at 13:09
David Haden
Birmingham, Creative industries, Reading, Teaching
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The Society of Indexers has chosen Birmingham for their 2016 national one-day conference. The venue will be The Studio, on the edge of Birmingham city centre, on Tuesday 13th September 2016.
Bone records
An exhibition on until 19th December 2015 at the Horse Hospital in London, Bone Music 1946-1964. It shows and documents the old bootleg home-made records of socialist Russia. The records were widespread and made out of old X-ray plates. From the late 1940s music-lovers in Russia defied total and often murderous censorship of music, and […]
The details on postgraduate Masters loans
08 Dec 2015 at 23:28
David Haden
Creative industries, Regeneration, Teaching
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Keele University has just posted new details on the government’s forthcoming Masters degree loans scheme. Looking at this news, and also at the government’s consultation PDF linked to by Keele, the details of the scheme now appear to be as follows:— * A £10,000 loan to pay for a one-year full-time taught Masters degree, on […]
Centre for Printing History and Culture
07 Dec 2015 at 20:05
David Haden
Birmingham, Creative industries, Teaching
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A new Centre for Printing History and Culture, likely to be of interest to those who know their paste-up from their blow-up… “The Centre for Printing History and Culture, a joint initiative between Birmingham City University (BCU) and the University of Birmingham, was launched […] on Wednesday 25 November. The Centre consists of academics, curators, […]
Visit the British Museum using Google Streetview
15 Nov 2015 at 08:34
David Haden
Artist(s), Cool sites, Mapping, Teaching
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You can walk through the British Museum, using Google Streetview… “Built over 15 months with the help of a Google employee with a camera on wheels … completed by the Google Cultural Institute after hours, with special lightbulbs being installed to ensure the lighting remained the same through the galleries.”
Course in the sight reading of Spanish?
21 Sep 2015 at 15:55
David Haden
Comic art, Teaching, Zeitgeist
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Why are there no adult courses in “sight reading of Spanish” and other similar-to-English written languages? Not in speaking the language, not in writing it, but just in being able to sight read it — to the level where one doesn’t need to puzzle over the surreal Google-isms of Google Translate. Such a course would […]