Today at #CADS2026 we heard from @sallyhuntsa.bsky.social & @marialeedham.bsky.social about the mirrors, windows and sliding doors metaphor to think about young adult fiction. If you missed it, here is a blog post by them wels.open.ac.uk/research/pro...

The Open University

by Sarah Jane Mukherjee, Sally Hunt and Maria Leedham

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Calling all secondary school students in the UK and those here who know them - please pass this on!

Maria Leedham@marialeedham.bsky.social · last yr.

Please share widely - I'm trying to reach students for this survey Calling all UK secondary school students and librarians! Please take our survey on YA fiction. We'd love to hear your views 😀. openeducation.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... wels.open.ac.uk/research/pro...

Please share this survey for our DoRA project (Exploring Young Adult Fiction). We're hoping to reach secondary school students, teachers and librarians and find out what they think!

Maria Leedham@marialeedham.bsky.social · last yr.

Please share widely - I'm trying to reach students for this survey Calling all UK secondary school students and librarians! Please take our survey on YA fiction. We'd love to hear your views 😀. openeducation.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... wels.open.ac.uk/research/pro...

Please share widely - I'm trying to reach students for this survey Calling all UK secondary school students and librarians! Please take our survey on YA fiction. We'd love to hear your views 😀. openeducation.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... wels.open.ac.uk/research/pro...

Happy to say this was published yesterday: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Linguistic Representations of Gender in Children's Literature

This book examines how aspects of gender and identity are represented in a cross-section of bestselling children's book series of the last 60 years.

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