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5th March, 4-6pm, Reinvention Centre at Westwood, Warwick Campus [ Flickr, https://www.flickr.com/photos/alexreyes/ ] Dr Analia Meo from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, came to discuss a short documentary called Teachers' Views on Returning Schools. The Film looks at the experiences and views of teachers and young people at schools in Buenos Aires, which cater for kids who have been excluded from education.    In Buenos Aires (2002) a national education policy was created to keep young people in secondary school education. As a result all inclusive schools were set up in 2004. These were experimental. The idea being that they would transfer the knowledge gained back from the school system to shape educational policy. Ten years later their work is not acknowledged. These returning schools are invisible to the wider education system the hoped to influence. During the film one phrase from a teacher struck me, she said, that their school was ‘...

  P rofessor Johnathan Hearn came to speak, at the University of Warwick, about power and the role of competition in society. ‘Competition is part of the deep structure of how society is organised,’ he said. ‘I am not a supporter of competition. I used to be a musician and thought I would escape the constant competition over gigs by working in the ivory tower of academia. Of course competition kept chasing after me!’ Hearn discussed competition as rituals that may or may not succeed. Competition between belief-making institutions may be responsible, in part, for the dissemination of certain ideologies in society. Of course because my research interest is stories I probably ignored his real message and began to make connects of stories-competition.       isn't a new concept. It is an historical point of view, as Winston Churchill said 'History is written by the victors.' Whether through news stories, education, or reality TV like I'm a Celebrity ...

[view of Minneapolis taken by myself]   Following a proactive approach to Professor Jack Zipes in 2013 I went to Minneapolis in September 2014 to work as an assistant on the Neighbourhood Bridges Program (Bridges), an arts for education charity. During that trip I spoke to Dr Ingram at Minnesota University to ask questions about the way in which the charity assesses its critical literacy targets and talk about some research ideas I had on oral storytelling. In 2015 Dr Ingram will be analysing data for both Neighbourhood Bridges and Building Bridges—an anti-racism project which uses story to connect people in the community through the reading and discussion of fiction and nonfiction. I was invited me to join her analysis team as a research assistant. I also intend to present my research findings to the faculty.  Good news, I applied to my department and was successful in being awarded the funding to cover my trip to Minneapolis in the coming year. ...

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...