Skills Week: Script for Screen Course
By Mariam Abood
Posted on: 8 June 2022
Decolonising the Curriculum: Language Learning (Part 2)
Benefits of Multilingualism
Posted on: 25 May 2022
Decolonising the Curriculum: Language Learning (Part 1)
The Current State of Multilingualism in the UK
Posted on: 25 May 2022
MA TESOL and Applied Linguistics Trip to Haworth
In March 2022, a group of 40 students from our MA in TESOL and Applied Linguistics programmes went on a visit to Haworth. This is the home of the Bronte sisters. You may know them from the novels they wrote – for example ‘Jane Eyre’ and ‘Wuthering Heights’.
Posted on: 11 May 2022
Domestic abuse in literature: the reality behind the fiction
Digital Communications Assistant in the department of English, Mariam Abood, explores the representations of domestic abuse in literature, from the perspective of her prior work as a researcher in the domestic abuse sector.
Posted on: 5 April 2022
Controversial colonial landmarks across Liverpool
Liverpool, the city we all love. Home to The Beatles, two Premier League football clubs, and the largest Lush in the world. Not so much a proud aspect of the city is its huge role in the transatlantic slave trade in the 18th and 19th centuries. Although the basis of Liverpool’s wealth and culture originates from this inexcusable trade, the now multicultural city has come far since. However, there are many landmarks across Liverpool that still subtly remind us of its dark foundations.
Posted on: 27 October 2021
Decolonising the Construction and Production of Knowledge
This summer, I held an internship at the University of Liverpool on Dr Natalie Hanna’s project, ‘Decolonising the Database’. My time was spent generating an online, interactive database of new materials which would help diversify, decolonise and decentre the English curriculum. When conducting my research, it quickly became indisputable that companies and universities of the Global North dominate the academic publishing market. As such, they stand at the critical crossroads in the construction and production of knowledge in society: they decide what is ‘in’ and what is ‘out’ of the marketplace of ideas.
Posted on: 27 October 2021
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Skills Week: Script for Screen Course
By Mariam Abood
Posted on: 8 June 2022