Press office news tagged english-and-creative-writing
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Academic wins prestigious short story prize
University of Plymouth news: Dr Tom Vowler, Associate Lecturer in the School of Society and Culture, has won the V.S. Pritchett Short Story Prize
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Poetry can help people cope with loneliness or isolation
University of Plymouth news: New research has found that many people who took to sharing, discussing and writing poetry as a means to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic experienced “demonstrable positive impact on their wellbeing”.
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Literature expert awarded Leverhulme Fellowship to study the historical representation of apprentices
Dr Bonnie Latimer is awarded a Leverhulme Fellowship to research the historical representation of apprentices and apprenticeship
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Creating net-zero visions of our future communities
The Net-Zero Visions for the Devon Climate Emergency project, being led by the University of Plymouth, unites community groups with creative professionals and net-zero transition experts
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Responding to the pandemic through poetry
A University of Plymouth project using poetry to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic has generated huge support from the public and the artistic community.
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400 years later: reconsidering the Mayflower
400 years later: reconsidering the Mayflower. Dr Kathryn Gray, Associate Professor in Early American Literature, reflects on our assumptions about the Mayflower's voyage and its consequences
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Thinking reading as the pandemic happens
Thinking reading as the pandemic happens. Dr David Sergeant explores some of the similarities and differences between fictional pandemic apocalypses in literature and the reality of COVID-19.
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First find your goat: surviving lockdown with Robinson Crusoe
First find your goat: surviving lockdown with Robinson Crusoe. Dr Min Wild, Lecturer in English, explores what we can learn from Daniel Defoe's classic castaway novel about self isolation.
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A sense of home: how the books we read shape our lives
A sense of home: how the books we read shape our lives. During this period of self-isolation, Dr Kathryn Gray reflects on her life and career and explores her roots through several key books.
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Top tips: Literature for the lockdown
University of Plymouth academics suggest some of the must-read works that could help while away the hours during the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Is GTA5 mirroring the advance of climate change and plastic pollution?
Plastic Scoop is an innovative new film created by artist Andy Hughes and Dr Mandy Bloomfield, Lecturer in English at the University of Plymouth.
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New Burns book explores influence on United States of America - from poets and abolitionists to the Ku Klux Klan
Robert Burns is known as Scotland’s national poet – but how many people are aware of his influence internationally, and in the United States in particular?
