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Narrative, Culture and Community Research Centre

@nccratbournemouth.bsky.social

We're an interdisciplinary research centre focused on narrative and culture based at Bournemouth University. Our interests include comics, crime fiction, autofiction, spatiality, medical humanities, and memory studies. https://www.litsampersand.org/nccr

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Narrative, Culture and Community Research Centre@nccratbournemouth.bsky.social · 2y ago

Unfortunately we have to cancel this for today, but we'll reschedule for as soon as we can!

Narrative, Culture and Community Research Centre@nccratbournemouth.bsky.social · 2y ago

Everyone knows a shelf like this, right? Join us next week to think about what it all means, when @joparsons.bsky.social presents her research into the #bonkbuster at our online #NCCR seminar, Wed 26th Feb at 4pm UK time. Zoom link & deets here: www.litsampersand.org/nccr #shareyourshelf #literature

Shelf of books by authors like Judith Krantz and Jilly Cooper
Victoria Bates@victoriabates.bsky.social · 2y ago

If you were interested in the birthing pool history piece, Jenny, Maria and I also wrote this companion article that just came out in a SI on experience: 'The Construction and Politics of the ‘Birth Experience’ in Britain, 1948–93' www.euppublishing.com/doi/full/10....

The Construction and Politics of the ‘Birth Experience’ in Britain, 1948–93 | Cultural History

A new concept of childbirth ‘experience’ emerged in late twentieth-century Britain, crafted by an erratic yet powerful mesh of interest groups. Experience is a powerful and malleable concept, that has...

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Victoria Bates@victoriabates.bsky.social · 2y ago

This publication fits nicely with work I've been doing with Jennifer Crane and Maria Fannin on the history of maternity design recently - for our article on the history of birthing pools, see mh.bmj.com/content/50/2...

Des Fitzgerald@desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 2y ago

Next week, the brilliant Prof. Tracey Loughran is running a series of online sessions for early career people in the medical humanities. I'm speaking on publishing, but there's also webinars on career opportunities and job applications. Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/career-opp...

Career Opportunities Within and Beyond the Health and Medical Humanities

What career opportunities are available for health and medical humanities researchers?

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Helen Smith@wordsmith.bsky.social · 2y ago

Applications for our inky, thoughtful, fabulous and, importantly, funded, Print Matters Summer School close on Wednesday 12th February! www.thinicepress.org/events/print...

Print Matters summer school: Thin Ice Press — Thin Ice Press

What does it mean to think about matter and materiality through the medium of letterpress printing?  We invite scholars of matter, materiality and/or material culture (broadly conceived) in any ...

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Narrative, Culture and Community Research Centre@nccratbournemouth.bsky.social · 2y ago

#nccrbu member Dr Jaron Murphy is a judge for the Orwell Society/NUJ Young Journalists Award 2025. Open to student journalists & journalists born in/after 1995 resident full-time in the UK. Deadline March 24 2025. orwellsociety.com/bursary/the-...

The Orwell Society/NUJ Young Journalists Award 2025 open for entries

Are you a young journalist, full-time resident in the UK, studying for a journalism qualification or starting out on your journalism career, who would like to win a prestigious award that significantl...

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Narrative, Culture and Community Research Centre@nccratbournemouth.bsky.social · 2y ago

One of our PGRs, the marvellous @zbloodyqueen.bsky.social and her crew at @cerealkillernet.bsky.social have this coming up tonight!

Cereal Killer Network@cerealkillernet.bsky.social · 2y ago

Just 1 week to go!🩸 🗣 Dr Coltan Scrivner 🔪 Why do we love True Crime? 📅 28th Jan 🕐 7pm - 8.30pm GMT 📍Zoom Dr. Coltan Scrivner is a behavioural biologist & leading researcher on the science behind morbid curiosity, including the human fascination with horror & true crime.