Interested in women's & gender studies? You can now apply to join our MA Women's Studies 2026-27 cohort at University College Cork.
Use the QR code below or find out more via https://www.ucc.ie/en/cke03/.
The deadline for non-EU international applicants is mid-June 2026.

#UCC #womensstudies #genderstudies #Ireland #postgraduate #MA

RE: https://fediscience.org/@alexh/116518145538497476

This was really interesting 👏

Some slides from the event have been posted here:
https://zenodo.org/communities/muecos/records?q=&l=list&p=1&s=10&sort=newest

And some of the resources and topics that came up 👇

The #ECR reviewer's platform aims to empower junior reviewers and equip #ECRs with the necessary skills to conduct methodologically rigorous reviews
ecr-reviewers.gitlab.io/guide/
#PostGraduate #PGR

#AcademicPublishing #NightshiftEditor #PeerReview #ResearchIntegrity

RE: https://fediscience.org/@satrevik/116612366859411834

Really interesting question.

I brought something similar last month to our #Postgraduate group with this paper as an example:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03075079.2026.2633517

This led to a good discussion about #AcademicCronyism. Whatever one thinks about the items in the poll, the paper offers some shades of grey regarding such actions.

#PublicationEthics #AcademicPublishing #ResearchEthics #COPE

Now the rush of term-end is behind me, I can afford time to document some of the projects I’ve been up to between my Academy studies.

FLUIDITY is an experimental short film improvised one weekend in February 2026 with the Academy of Live Technology’s Postgraduate cohort, at the behest of visiting Multimedia Artist-Engineer Diana Scarborough. A Cambridge-based creative whose work blends science, art, and ecology, her Sounds of Space project is an inspirational extension of concepts I’ve used in my own work.

The film presents a meditation on water, flowing around a spoken word performance by student Dami Olagbegi. Soundscape and Foley were recorded by contact mics and hydrophone, capturing the sound of underwater instruments, percussion, and melting ice. Suitably swirly visuals were then evoked by filming a tray of water through an old-style desk projector while adding different colour pigments with a pipette.

My part was to blend these elements together, along with separately supplied stock footage and a little alchemical flavour. Layering down a simple synth soundtrack to mix the recordings into form, and editing the video against an unyielding deadline.

Using GarageBand and DaVinci Resolve on iPad to record and edit, and shooting the projections with a SmallRig-ged iPhone, the tools to hand ensured swift turnaround from idea to image. Although I could have used some extra time to polish things properly on home hardware, I’m happy with the raw honesty of the result.

It was a great pleasure to be invited to work alongside the Postgrad students, to get a feel of what awaits my own Masters journey, and to play without expectation for the joy of creating art.

https://youtu.be/UeOFbDiJMMc

Diana Scarborough: dianascarborough.co.uk
Sounds of Space: soundsofspaceproject.bandcamp.com

The Self in Travel Writing and the discourse of travel

https://daveydreamnation.com/non-fiction/essays/the-self-in-travel-writing-and-the-discourse-of-travel/

New Postgraduate Scholarship Scheme Piloted in Orkney

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://theorkneynews.scot/2026/03/22/new-postgraduate-scholarship-scheme-piloted-in-orkney/

Just spreading the word about our great MA in Contemporary Literature and Culture at Loughborough University. As it happens, I met with our wonderful students this morning to talk about the current state of the literary market and the diversity deficit in publishing on an amazing module called 'The Market, Literary Prizes and Canon Formation'.

https://www.lboro.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/masters-degrees/a-z/contemporary-literature-and-culture/

We also offer an MA in Creative Writing.

#MA #Masters #postgraduate #publishing #culture #English #lboro