Posted as a reminder as a few folk seem to have forgotten.
Research comes in many guises- for the love of god stop diminishing some work as more valid than others to be classified as research. Does it fit the definition, then it’s research. You are investigating something.
Frescati definition:
Research and experimental development (R&D) comprise creative work undertaken on a systematic basis in order to increase the stock of knowledge, including knowledge of man, culture and society, and the use of this stock of knowledge to devise new applications
As we’re heading towards #Halloween, here’s my essay:
Samhain or Halloween? The “ancient Celtic year” in Contemporary Children’s Fantasy
https://t.co/XIpZ9gKaGI
Examples from The Dark is Rising Sequence, the Snow Spider trilogy, and many others!
@UofGFantasy@TDiRReadathon
What a fantastic night celebrating the release of Unexploded Remnants! Thanks to Elaine Gallagher, Meg MacDonald and @WStonesArgyleST. The book is available now from Reactor and all good book stores!
Well, hello, MCM London Comic Con, tentacular to see you! We'll be here all weekend selling books and other assorted twinkalicious merch. If you're here, stop on over and say hi! We promise to give you a gentle obliteration.
The excitement is already palpable for our upcoming symposium and the CfP hasn't even been live for 24h! To learn more about how you can submit your proposal, visit the Centre's blog here: https://t.co/xUnAy7JG4q
Local author Elaine Gallagher joins us for the launch of her debut SciFi novella, Unexploded Remnants 💥 a spectacular blend of Doctor Who & Indiana Jones which sees the last human in the galaxy find an artefact of untold worth... and untold trouble.
https://t.co/ie90vy2l4I
I've created a brand new museum …in the Metaverse! @meta Quest 3 and @UofGlasgow’s ‘Museums in the Metaverse’ project has digitised thousands of artefacts so you can see and handle them from home. It's pretty cool! Visit 'my' museum here👇#ad
.@WTalabi was on the *single best panel* of @Glasgowin2024, on Gods In Fantasy (with vice-chair @Megintransition), and I would rerun that panel in a *heartbeat*, as an in-conversation, if I could!