English Professor. Durham Commission for Creativity and Education, Child of the North. Victorian Fiction, Wells,Waugh, Dickens. Occasionally digital.
Joined November 2015
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14 Mar 2025
My honour and pleasure to lead on this new report for Child of the North. Please read and share!! Let's get creativity and the arts at the heart of the education of every child!!!
14 Mar 2025
A report launched today by Child of the North - led by @n8research and @_henorth - and @annelongfield’s @Cfyounglives warns the talents of millions of children are being wasted, and calls for creativity to be embedded into an inclusive school curriculum tinyurl.com/2eca46yb
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Simon John James retweeted
20 May 2025
An essay comparing the archives (and achievements) of Alasdair Gray and Evelyn Waugh:
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@planetpaulblog @MrNeilScott
@AuberonWaugh_PE @SMelfont
@ProfSJJames @dj_forrester
@IanCallaway352 @AGrayArchive @RealifersRoss
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20 May 2025
My current contract's going to be up at the end of June so I'm looking to line up commissions or other freelance work if you need a writer or editor.
There's a link to my website in my profile, which has my bio and a brief portfolio of my work.
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Simon John James retweeted
14 May 2025
📣 CONNECT: Dynamic Leadership is open for bookings!
📍 @OneStrawberryLn
📅 Wed, 25 June
This full day training promotes a creative attitude to leadership & the personal qualities, skills & attributes inherent in good leadership.
For info & to book:
connect@mortalfools.org.uk
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14 May 2025
We are looking for a Research Statistician and Data Analyst, working with me and the @EvidenceInEdu team.
evidencebased.education/work…
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13 May 2025
You remember too much,
my mother said to me recently.
Why hold onto all that? And I said,
Where can I put it down?
—Anne Carson, from "The Glass Essay"
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11 May 2025
Well done Sunderland yesterday and good luck spennymoor today!!
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6 May 2025
Say hello to @BeeLitMag! The Bee is a new showcase of working-class writing from the UK and beyond, comprising a website, a literary magazine, The Working Class Library podcast, and The Beehive, an online space for new and emerging working-class writers.
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2 May 2025
As a Lincolnshire Mayor will have zero control over immigration policy, i wonder if Anrea Jenkyns is proposing to stop holidaymakers crossing the county border to Skegness or Cleethorpes from staying in B&Bs and make them go to campsites
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30 Apr 2025
A teacher I know is doing a PhD and needs help from other experienced teachers in England (5 years experience). Survey here — 10–15 mins max. She’d be so grateful!
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My latest cartoon for @newscientist
ALT Title: SOME GRAMMATICAL VOICES FOR USE IN SCIENTIFIC WRITING ACTIVE VOICE e.g. Our team collected samples and then we tested them. CLICKBAIT VOICE e.g. We collected some samples... You won't believe what happened next! PASSIVE VOICE e.g. Samples were collected and tested. HAIKU VOICE e.g. Quiet science lab. Workers arrive with samples. The testing begins. PASSIVE-AGGRESSIVE VOICE e.g. We did all the collecting and testing. No need to thank us. Just doing our job. CONSPIRACY VOICE e.g. Mysterious "Samples" were harvested and covertly "tested" by so-called scientists.
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Simon John James retweeted
23 Apr 2025
Immigrants are not entitled to claim Universal Credit.
Immigrants have No Recourse to Public Funds.
Rupert is a race-baiting snake oil salesman hoping to profit from a rise in bigotry & violence, who is apparently too much of a bully even for Reform UK🤢🤮
22 Apr 2025
The next aim is to get a full nationality breakdown for those claiming Universal Credit and other benefits - let's see who is living off the British taxpayer, and where they have come from.
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Simon John James retweeted
Creativity fuels change, especially when it comes to building a better world.
On this World Creativity & Innovation Day, we're celebrating how imagination and innovation can help achieve the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to protect our planet and the life on it.
Which Sustainable Development Goal speaks to you the most? Let us know in the comments!
Visit wciw.org to learn more about WCID and the UN's 17 Sustainable Development Goals.
#WCID #SustainableDevelopmentGoals #CreativityForChange #InnovationForGood #WCIW2025 #WCIW
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18 Apr 2025
Amazing
18 Apr 2025
BREAKING: New York State Attorney General Letitia James breaks her silence, responding to Trump's retaliation against her and hands him his ass.
Letitia James is a fearless woman. Must-watch:
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17 Apr 2025
very sparse turnout for Royal visit in Durham today...
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15 Apr 2025
Join hundreds of creative and cultural orgs based in England, and take part in the Private Investment in Culture Survey ✍️
It investigates the levels and sources of investment beyond public funding for the previous 3 financial years.
Take the survey 👇
buff.ly/H8PMsQK
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Simon John James retweeted
15 Apr 2025
Our Executive Chair @annelongfield has spoken to @politicshome about boosting children's online safety and wellbeing. 👇
14 Apr 2025
“I don't think in any way that media companies are feeling threatened by this."
ICYMI: New peer and former children's commissioner @annelongfield spoke to @politicshome about whether the govt can take on big tech to protect children online
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