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Warwick University is holding its first storytelling conference aimed at storytellers, arts practitioners, and researchers. Photo by Alden Chadwick (Flickr, http://bit.ly/2aBeD8k ) When? 28 th November 2016, 12.00 noon – 17.15 pm Where? Warwick University, Main library, Coventry What do we want the future of storytelling research to be? This conference considers current work that is being done in the broad field of storytelling. The aim is to engage people to thinking different avenues that future research in storytelling could take. We will cover a number of different topics involving inclusive research with people with learning difficulties, applied storytelling and drama with the Belgrade Theatre, and how to consider the role of the storyteller in research. In line with our creative theme there will be a live/recorded performance of How the Gypsies got their music (by Cornish storyteller Mike O’Connor), and a poetry writing workshop. For infor...

The International Sociological Association have accepted my abstract to speak in Vienna this July. Yay! I won't be wearing a dress made from curtains but this is what the presentation will be on, perhaps I'll see you there.   Photo 'Vienna' by Osamu Kaneko  ( http://bit.ly/1OuQFXF ) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/   A Managed Heart in relation to storytelling: how education policy shapes young people’s perceptions of emotion.   Literature searches indicate that Hochschild’s theories of emotion have not been linked to oral storytelling in an educational setting. In A Managed Heart Hochschild researched how flight attendants at Delta Airlines managed emotion. Hochschild proposed that people were trained to manage emotion in the workplace. This paper explores Hochschild’s theories in the context of educational policy and oral storytelling. A storytelling space was created in three schools in the UK, Warwickshire, in 2013. Analysis invo...

1 st November – poster presentation   Presented a poster of my research at the Herbert Art Gallery as part of the ESRC F estival of Social Sciences. The exhibition aimed to improve public access to innovative research in Warwick and Coventry and was attended by the general public, academics, small business owners, and policymakers.  See a pdf of my poster here . 6 th November – The Spirit of ‘45 Attended a Q&A to hear director Ken Loach talk about his new documentary ‘ The Spirit of 1945 ’. A film showing broken promises made by the Labour party, nationalisation , and the subsequent dismantling of the welfare state over time. During discussions at the end a member of the audience said, what can we do to protect our NHS? Our welfare? Loach suggested that socialist parties group together and co-ordinate, with voters supporting one another, negotiating and backing the Green Party (as an example), and in that way trying to ensure welfare is no...