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Attending and Presenting at the 2024 International Gothic Association (IGA) in Halifax, Nova Scotia
Last July, I was very fortunate to attend this year’s International Gothic Association (IGA) Conference at the Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. I am profoundly grateful to the Manchester Metropolitan University and all its members for…
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Last Year’s International Football History Conference, Cardiff 2024
Last summer the International Football History Conference, also known as ‘Footycon’ held its annual event at the Cardiff City Stadium. The conference has been running since 2017, but last year was only the sixth get-together due to Covid restrictions…
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Botany in Madrid
I was fortunate to attend the International Botanical Congress in Madrid, Spain this past July. This conference was attended by nearly 3,000 botanists from around the world, specialising in various disciplines across the field. I was joined by colleagues…
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Presenting at the Annual Celtic Students Conference
The Association of Celtic Students is an international academic society, welcoming students from a range of disciplines, spanning languages and linguistics, literature, history, geography, and social studies to name but a few. Each year, the association holds a conference…
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Confessions of having never attended a conference before
It is very easy to assume that everyone knows what happens at a conference. When I saw Women Who Create: The Feminine and the Arts 2024 advertised at Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, I knew it was something that would…
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A first conference experience: the 36th International Society for Music Education (ISME) World Conference, Helsinki 2024
his summer I had my first academic conference experience at the ISME world conference where I presented two papers from the early stages of my PhD work into somatic education for musicians. As a self-funding part time PhD student,…
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Conference Hack
Attending the 32nd Women’s History Network Annual Conference : Curating the Female Self Hosted with the Bedford Centre for the History of Women and Gender at Royal Holloway, University of London, 5-6 September 2024 (Cover image published with permission of…
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A Blend of Scholarship and Culture: EDAMBA Summer Academy Experience in Athens
Last summer, Alaa and I had the opportunity to participate in the 33rd EDAMBA Summer Research Academy in Athens, Greece. Our participation was jointly funded by the Faculty of Business and Law and the Doctoral College. The EDAMBA Summer…
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Drifting with care: how I navigated my first geography conference
Even though human geography is part of my research area besides sound studies and queer studies, the 7th European Geographies of Sexualities Conference at the University of Brighton was the first geography conference I have attended. My aim was…
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My experience at the NICEC Conference 2024: “Careers and Sustainability – Skills, Wellbeing and the Environment” (2 – 3 July 2024)
Cover Photo by Unseen Studio on Unsplash The 2024 NICEC (National Institute for Careers Education and Counselling) Conference took place in the centre of Birmingham last year, exploring the theme of sustainability within career decision making, research and practice. Through the support…
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