Keynotes & Research Seminars

Here you can find a list of selected keynotes and research seminars, previous and upcoming. I have made available presentations and abstracts where possible. If you would like more information, please get in touch.

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Conference Papers

This list provides you with selected conference papers past and present.  I have made available presentations and abstracts where possible. If you would like more information, please get in touch.

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Workshops

These bespoke, commissioned workshops focus on various aspects of academic career and skills development, including social media, impact, and general early-career guidance. If you are interested in hosting a workshop for your researchers, please get in touch.

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How to Blog about Your Research (Sage Research Methods)

This guide was commissioned for Sage Research Methods: Doing Research Online (2022). It explains the varied reasons that might compel you to start a research blog, from building research communities to developing research in progress, reaching out to nonacademic audiences, and communicating your research more creatively. It then helps you determine your target audience(s), be they […]

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The “I” Word: Research Impact in the Arts & Humanities

This workshop enables researchers to familiarise themselves with innovative approaches and methods that can make for exciting new ways of conceptualising, designing, and carrying out their arts and humanities research in partnership with non-academic partners and audiences; at the same time, the workshop will also facilitate both critical and pragmatic appraisals of the processes and consequences of translating our work into impact narratives and metrics.

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War Widows’ Quilt on ITV London News

  On Armistice Day 2019, Will Davies visited us at the first ever exhibition of the War Widows’ Quilt at The Queen’s House, Greenwich, where it was installed from 7-11 November 2019. Will spoke to representatives of the War Widows’ Association who had contributed to the quilt, as well as to lead artist Lois Blackburn […]

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The War Widows’ Quilt: A Short Film

Made by John Felix, this film tells the story of the War Widows’ Quilt, a moving, important new memorial to the lives of Britain’s war widows. Made from armed forces shirts by over ninety war widows and their family members, this beautiful and moving piece of art tells many individual stories of love, loss, and grief while also shining a light on the ongoing history of war widowhood in the UK.

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Daily Express Double-Page Spread to War Widows’ Quilt

  On 9 November 2019, the Daily Express devoted a double-page spread to the first-ever exhibition of the War Widows’ Quilt at the Queen’s House, Greenwich. Giles Sheldrick, Chief Reporter, interviewed women who contributed to the quilt, representatives of our partner organisation The War Widows’ Association of Great Britain, lead artist Lois Blackburn, and me […]

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Sunday Morning with Ricky Ross – Remembrance Sunday

  On Sunday, 11 November 2018, after the two-minute silence at 11.00AM, you’ll be able to listen to a feature on women and war that I recorded for BBC Radio Scotland’s Sunday Morning with … . Presented by Ricky Ross, the feature is a conversation between Ricky, Christine Morgan, who’s son Marc was killed by […]

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Listen to the Voices of War’s Forgotten Women

War Widows’ Stories captures the lives of war’s forgotten women past and present through oral history, participatory arts, public events, and archival research. The British public commonly imagine war widows to be elderly women who lost their husbands as a result of active combat in the Second World War, surrounded and supported by family, friends, the armed forces, and the state. While this applies to some women, it by no means describes the majority of Britain’s 18,950 war widows.

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AHRC Leadership Fellows Award for War Widows’ Stories

I have been awarded one of the Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Leadership Fellows grants. Centred around War Widows’ Stories and starting in September 2018, the Fellowship will allow me to substantially develop the project through further research on the history of war and by continuing my work with the war widows’ community and museums in an effort to raise public awareness of the lives of war’s forgotten women past and present.

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I’m Senior Lecturer in English Literature & Cultural History at Liverpool John Moores University and a BBC New Generation Thinker. I specialise in literary and cultural histories of women, gender, and feminism in Britain from the nineteenth century to the present day, women’s writing, and widowhood. I also provide support, training, and development for postgraduate […]

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