Alistair Brown

Assistant Prof @READEnglish & Associate Lecturer @openuniversity

Digital humanities / video games as literature / playful pedagogy / creative industries

[Abbie Garrington @abbiegarrington]

Good to hear @READEnglish's @alibrown18 taking part in a 'Digital Futures' event today, talking about the skills Durham students develop when they learn through digital means, but also praising the essay as a valuable 'mode of thinking.' #EnglishCreates https://t.co/9VPZZvoGbd

[Abbie Garrington @abbiegarrington]

If you would be interested in applying for a @LeverhulmeTrust Early Career Fellowship with us @READEnglish you can email potential mentors amongst our staff any time from now. Modernists with mountain/polar/sensory studies/autofiction interests: do get in touch. (Pic: @cj_drury)

[Alistair Brown @alibrown18]

@abbiegarrington Thanks Abbie and very happy Christmas to you! 🎄🙂 Special judge's commendation passed on to the clown artistes.

[Alistair Brown @alibrown18]

Roll up, roll up!

Christmas doesn't officially start...until you vote in the annual #gingerbreadhouse competition!

This year's theme: Circus

Reply A, B or C by 5pm Christmas Day.

[Alistair Brown @alibrown18]

@barbara_franchi Thanks Barbara and happy Christmas to you and the family too 🎅🙂

[Alistair Brown @alibrown18]

@Linzibo Allowed by the international gingerbread rules but you could have split your votes across the three social media 😠😂

[Changing Relations @ChangeRelations]

Are you our next Freelance Associate Creative Facilitator?

Deadline THIS SUNDAY 15th May at 11:59pm
Fee £25-28k p.a. pro rata

Please share / tag colleagues you feel would be ideal / interested 🙏🏼https://t.co/tFa5wi95GH

[Simon John James @ProfSJJames]

Teacher friends!! Please - sign up, share will colleagues, RT - thank you!!!

[Alistair Brown @alibrown18]

Read "Academic Freedom Is Not Freedom of Speech" https://t.co/aQ8CqQlPLq (via @pocket)

[Alistair Brown @alibrown18]

If HE leaders and VCs want to help staff with stress and workload they could start by asking whether it's a good thing Turnitin has a near monopoly in the UK, such that when it goes down during marking season...🔥 #edutech #highered

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[Alistair Brown @alibrown18]

Creative businesses in #Durham #CountyDurham - a fantastic opportunity to plan how to build on the back of #Durham2025 success, supported by my former @CreativeFuseNE buddies.

[Ladan Cockshut @LadanCockshut]

We still have a few slots remaining for this exciting workshop on Thursday https://t.co/0ml3RSceK9 Please spread the word! @CreativeFuseNE @CreativeFuseTV @create_north @thatdrmaz @NECFreelancers @CoDurhamHour @Durham_2025

[Alistair Brown @alibrown18]

In which Durham's position in league tables is causally related to whether students are allowed to make light of serial paedophiles. 🤦

[Open University English & Creative Writing @OU_Literature]

.@EnglishAssoc The Open Uni is hiring a specialist in Victorian lit (expertise in Romanticism a plus) to contribute to development, teaching & assessment, & participate in vibrant research culture through original scholarship. Deadline March 21. https://t.co/nWuuJw38xJ

[Matthew Phillips @phillipsme]

Two great permanent posts available in our growing Research Support team at @dulib. Closing dates for applications extended to 11 March.
Open Access Coordinator: https://t.co/I5QOpTbn3R
Open Access Publications Officer: https://t.co/GsSZ5ruFMY

[Alistair Brown @alibrown18]

@NaomiBooth Awesome work Naomi 👏

& since 'A Cultural History of Conking Out' sounds like an intriguing study of mechanically exhausted cars stranded on the hard shoulder, your title is better.

[Alistair Brown @alibrown18]

Two days effort to discover that R packages twitteR and rtweets don't (seem to) work with the academic @Twitter V2 API.

You need to use academictwittR:

https://t.co/YqtHof7NgS

@rstudiotips #r

[Alistair Brown @alibrown18]

At a grim moment in history, doing the school run on #WorldBookDay was a little burst of joy this morning. 😊

[Sedgefield Primary @atsedgefieldpri]

Year 1 are loving World Book Day! We are making book marks and going on a book scavenger hunt later.

[Alistair Brown @alibrown18]

@lit_metal Sending you virtual good vibes and positivity Sam!

[Alistair Brown @alibrown18]

Hell yes. 👏

And can we chuck ageist into this list too.

Some mature students *with* GCSEs struggle at uni (at first) cos they've forgotten what they were taught years ago.

Some mature students *without* GCSEs thrive as they have life experience to compensate.

[Alistair Brown @alibrown18]

@axainsurance And fair play @axainsurance @coverwise for responding quickly here and eventually getting us through to a chat with a very helpful Nikki at Coverwise.

[Alistair Brown @alibrown18]

@axainsurance @coverwise Nice Catch 22 you got here. I need to know whether we're covered for all of a weekend trip having had trains cancelled yesterday, or whether to make alternative arrangements. But I can't check in advance as you require because you're closed weekends!

[Alistair Brown @alibrown18]

@axainsurance Thanks will do 👍