Feminist. Into history & public engagement. #EdTech enthusiast. Trustee @Cities_Children. RT≠endorsements etc
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Cleo Fatoorehchi retweeted
NEW: New teachers experienced isolation and self-doubt because of pandemic restrictions, but also demonstrated resilience that could make them even better teachers, a new report from @KingsECS & @policyatkings has found.
Discover the full story 👇
kcl.ac.uk/news/self-doubt-an…
Cleo Fatoorehchi retweeted
“What it's easy to overlook, if we excessively eulogise the water cooler, is that Zoom has been a fantastic digital democratiser.”
@juliahobsbawm, author of The Nowhere Office, at our event last night on the impacts of new ways of working
Watch ➡️ youtu.be/cPf402g7unk
📢to all motivated self-starter graduates/post-grads
Join expanding charity @Cities_Children as their new Communications & Research Intern and write about children's rights, refugee issues & more
Apply by 30 June 👇
charityjob.co.uk/volunteer-j…
#HIRINGNOW #internship #charityjobs
Cleo Fatoorehchi retweeted
This week's #ManuscriptMonday is a marvel in gold and ivory.
Thought to have been the personal prayer book of the enigmatic Queen Melisende, this gold-filled treasure-book demands a closer look:
🔗bit.ly/3lXVe6q
ALT Initial 'B'(eatus) of King David playing the harp, in The Psalter of Queen Melisende
ALT The wedding of Fulk and Melisende in William of Tyre
ALT The Melisende Psalter, Upper cover with scenes from the life of David
ALT Initial 'B'(eatus) of King David playing the harp opposite a panel with display capitals containing the beginning of Psalm 1
Cleo Fatoorehchi retweeted
🎉 NEW RESOURCES 🎉
Today we're releasing 2 briefings based on our research that's contributed to raising awareness of the need for accountability and evaluation practices of #YouthWork centred on young people and their needs.
Consult them now 👇
kcl.ac.uk/news/new-resources…
Cleo Fatoorehchi retweeted
📽️🎶 How did Oscar winner Hans Zimmer capture @dunemovie 's epic and other-worldly plot in the film music?
Dr Philip Kirby dissects the film score ⏩his highlights:
👩The role of women
🥁 ⚡️ The combination of techniques
Discover more 👇
kcl.ac.uk/anchoring-the-sci-…
Cleo Fatoorehchi retweeted
Delighted to share this year's successful Beacon Bursaries for #PublicEngagement @ucl - from the largest number of incredibly strong applications we've ever had 12 projects have been funded with approaches ranging from art-based practice to co-creation:
ucl.ac.uk/culture/projects/b…
Really excited to finally get started on this #PublicEngagement journey thanks to the support of @UCLEngage and invaluable help of @Jane_L_Gilbert, in partnership with @feministlibrary
Beacon Bursary projects are a go!!! Keep you eyes out over the coming weeks to find out about some amazing #PublicEngagement projects taking place around London, around the UK and with all sorts of communities funded by us at UCL Engagement with additional support from UCL East.
Cleo Fatoorehchi retweeted
London's Tube stations have been renamed after notable women and non-binary people on a new map for #IWD2022. Included are the names of UCL community members like scientist Kathleen Lonsdale, Olympic athlete @chrissyohuruogu and cricketer @ejrainfordbrent: ucl.ac.uk/news/2022/mar/redr…
ALT Part of the London Underground map with the station names replaced with the names of notable women. A title card for the map says 'City of Women'
Cleo Fatoorehchi retweeted
We couldn't let #InternationalWomensDay pass without mentioning Sappho.
An early female poet, she was the first woman known to have written poems in Greek.
Very few fragments of Sappho's work survive. Here is one of them.
blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscr…
Cleo Fatoorehchi retweeted
The two-faced god Janus continues the Christmas celebrations and marks the beginning of the #NewYear in this C13th English Psalter.
📑 Lansdowne MS 331, f. 4r.
🔗 bit.ly/3qio0Ay
ALT Illustration of the two-headed god Janus.
Cleo Fatoorehchi retweeted
Looks like someone with buttered paws has been walking on the medieval manuscripts 🐾
🔗 bit.ly/3q4a1Oz
#butteredjorts
ALT Mucky paw prints on a manuscript
A fascinating conversation took place on Tuesday - definitely worth spending an hour listening to it to think about our collective and individual roles in making fairer and more sustainable #FuturesOfEducation happen
Catch up on our #FuturesOfEducation event when we debated social contracts, neoliberalism, human capital, utopias & more educational concepts 👇
Thanks @ArjunAppadurai @CEID_IOE @Wbrehm @maren_elfert @professorliwei1 for a fascinating conversation🙌
📽️youtu.be/UlFf_KSWROs
Cleo Fatoorehchi retweeted
Dazzling in its beauty, gold has long held the power to ignite feelings of awe and wonder. Our #Gold exhibition journeys through time, around the globe and across cultures to showcase the stories of those master craftsmen.
On sale February 2022 🪙
👉bl.uk/events/gold
ALT Gold - on sale February 2022. Take a journey around the globe to learn how gold elevated art in manuscripts and books. Bl.uk/whats-on
Loving this comic!
Different takes on the judgement of the dead: official vs unofficial version😂
Quite fitting after discussing #afterlife beliefs in ancient #egypt today with @RaconteMoi2
HT @KaraCooney FB for the comic (and whoever came up with this is a genius!)
#egyptology #weekendfun
ALT Book of the Dead 125, papyrus of Hunefer, British Museum EA9901
Cleo Fatoorehchi retweeted
📰 Let’s flip the narrative that places blame on victims and use the power of language in service of survivors, not perpetrators.
#OrangeTheWorld #16days
Cleo Fatoorehchi retweeted
We couldn't let #MargeryKempeDay pass without showing you this little gem.
The earliest autobiography in English
The unique surviving manuscript
Composed by an illiterate woman
We 💕Margery Kempe!
Add MS 61823
bl.uk/collection-items/the-b…
Cleo Fatoorehchi retweeted
NEW BOOK: Christine de Pizan, Life, Works, Legacy mod-langs.ox.ac.uk/node/3952