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And now
@janecatlin.bsky.social
is taking us on a journey of art and languages for
#inclusion
and social justice
#BAAL2025
@karen-scilt.bsky.social
@laviniahirsu.bsky.social
@scilt.bsky.social
@strath-ioe.bsky.social
@baal2025.bsky.social
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We brought something special to
#BAAL2025
today! come and join us to talk about
#multilingualism
,
#artmaking
and
#sustainability
@laviniahirsu.bsky.social
@uofgsocsci.bsky.social
@uofgeducation.bsky.social
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19 days ago
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Excited to present with
@laviniahirsu.bsky.social
our arts-based framework and how we use arts-based methods in our newest project that embeds
#multilingualism
into Learning for Susainability
#LfS
!
@uofgeducation.bsky.social
@scilt.bsky.social
@strath-ioe.bsky.social
@bilingmatters25.bsky.social
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23 days ago
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Alison Phipps አሊሰን
about 1 month ago
So good to see
@scotnational.bsky.social
stepping up with exactly what is needed in face of hysteria fanned by click-bait hungry msm - this is leadership by a small, young, smart and savvy team ❤️
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Alison Mitchell
about 1 month ago
What a fantastic event! Thank you
@scotrefugeecouncil.bsky.social
and all those who have supported this great charity.
#PartOfTheBiggerPicture🧩
www.justgiving.com/page/alison-...
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Li Wei 李嵬
about 1 month ago
Leaning into more heritage language-learning opportunities would build international ties along with individuals’ connections to their families and communities!
@sophiasgaler.bsky.social
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Time for a reality check: Britain cannot be a big player on the world stage unless we speak more languages | Sophia Smith Galer
For all the talk of addressing the problem, things have got worse. Which is criminal when there is so much we could do, says journalist Sophia Smith Galer
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/23/reality-check-britain-speak-learn-languages-gcse
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Hubertine Auclert
about 1 month ago
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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UK falling behind EU on environmental rules amid post-Brexit rollback
Exclusive: Labour ministers choosing to weaken green protections inherited from the bloc, analysis reveals
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/19/uk-falling-behind-eu-environmental-rules-post-brexit-rollback
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Dan Fisher
about 1 month ago
👉OUT NOW!👈 "A Handbook of Integration with Refugees: Global Learnings from Scotland" Edited with
@alisonphipps.bsky.social
and
@esaldegheri.bsky.social
The book is FREE to download from
www.multilingual-matters.com
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University of Glasgow
about 1 month ago
A national survey of educators in Scotland aims to capture how sustainability and the environment feature in Scottish educational settings. Dr Clare Ramjan
@uofgeducation.bsky.social
undertook the
@stir.ac.uk
research with
@edinburghuni.bsky.social
&
@ucl.ac.uk
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University of Glasgow
about 1 month ago
Three Words for Forest - a filmed play exploring UK forests & climate crisis - gets new AHRC funding to expand access & spark dialogue. 🌲
@deeheddon.bsky.social
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University of Glasgow filmed theatre play will help explore climate crisis impact on UK forests
A filmed theatre production has secured additional funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) to expand its reach and spark discussions about the complex challenges facing UK forests...
https://gla.ac/4oD3gB8
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University of Glasgow
2 months ago
Say hello to
#communiMap
- a new community science app that helps you notice, share & map what matters in your neighbourhood - trees, wildlife, flooding & more. Co-designed by UofG's
@communigallant.bsky.social
& local communities — it's everyday noticing turned into climate action.
gla.ac/4eVwYMU
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3 months ago
Key message from
@cherylcraig.bsky.social
at the ISATT Conference ‘Do the next right thing.’
@isatt2025.bsky.social
@alisonmitchelluofg.bsky.social
#isatt2025
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Alison Mitchell
3 months ago
Privileged to participate in this
#ISATT2025
symposium with such inspiring colleagues: Taking Stock: A Diverse and Anti-Racist Teaching Profession in Scotland
@dennisafrancis.bsky.social
@khadijamohammed.bsky.social
#ChereenRain
#AsifChisti
@uofgheadship.bsky.social
@isatt2025.bsky.social
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ISATTGlobal
3 months ago
What a wonderful keynote presentation from Prof. Ann Lopez, inviting the
#ISATT
community to see teaching and learning as acts of justice and classrooms as places of radical love!
#Humanity
#Love
#Activism
for
#SocialChange
@drannlopez.bsky.social
@uofgheadship.bsky.social
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ISATTGlobal
3 months ago
Thank you to our fabulous Professional Services team and our wonderful
#ISATT2025
ambassadors who are doing a sterling job supporting the smooth running of each conference day! We see you ❤️❤️@uofglasgow.bsky.social
@uofgsocsci.bsky.social
@susiewh.bsky.social
@ioz100.bsky.social
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ISATTGlobal
3 months ago
We look forward to welcoming over 450 delegates from across the world to
#Glasgow
for
#ISATT2025
! 🏴 Where in the world are you travelling from? 🌍
@angelajaap.bsky.social
@margery25.bsky.social
@uofgsocsci.bsky.social
@alisonmitchelluofg.bsky.social
@centcs.bsky.social
www.gla.ac.uk/events/confe...
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University of Glasgow - University events - Conferences - 21st ISATT Biennial Conference - Venue InformationSearch iconClose menu iconMenu icon bar 1Menu icon bar 2Menu icon bar 3
https://www.gla.ac.uk/events/conferences/isatt2025/venueinformation/
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SCILT
3 months ago
🗓️Save the date! Back by popular demand, SCILT’s Moving Forward with Languages conferences for Higher and Advanced Higher language learners will return for session 2025-26. Keep an eye on the SCILT e-bulletin in the new term for more information and registration links:
loom.ly/3pjXgn8
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We are looking for 3 artists to work with us on our
#AHRC
Multilingualism and Sustainability project with primary schools in Scotland 🌱
@laviniahirsu.bsky.social
@karen-scilt.bsky.social
@janecatlin.bsky.social
Deadline: 29 June. More details:
www.creativeglasgow.co.uk/sdll/
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Sustainable Designs for Living and Learning - Creative Glasgow
'Sustainable Designs for Living and Learning’ is a pioneer project that aims to support the development of new integrated approaches to learning for
https://www.creativeglasgow.co.uk/sdll/
3 months ago
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We are looking for 3 artists to work with us on our
#AHRC
Multilingualism and Sustainability project with primary schools in Scotland 🌱
@laviniahirsu.bsky.social
@karen-scilt.bsky.social
@janecatlin.bsky.social
Deadline: 29 June. More details:
www.creativeglasgow.co.uk/sdll/
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Sustainable Designs for Living and Learning - Creative Glasgow
'Sustainable Designs for Living and Learning’ is a pioneer project that aims to support the development of new integrated approaches to learning for
https://www.creativeglasgow.co.uk/sdll/
3 months ago
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A perfect final session of the
@uofglasgow.bsky.social
#Crucible2025
@lisabradley.bsky.social
speaking on making space for the not-yet, interdisciplinary imagination, quilt making and translation without flattening
@uofgarc.bsky.social
🌱
4 months ago
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Dr Sabine Little
4 months ago
Day 7
#30dayswildmultilingual
- all about caterpillars and butterflies - I know this comes up on a Saturday this year, but in past years, it has been a school favourite!
#30dayswild
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Looking forward to seeing you next Monday at this years' last ELINET LEM seminar: The Native-like speaker myth: Challenging native-like proficiency as the only measure of additional language success by Dr Alissa Keith!
4 months ago
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Excited & honoured to present this Tue in "Transformative Plurilingual Education through Museums and the Arts" at Università Ca' Foscari Venezia incl. my work w/
@laviniahirsu.bsky.social
@karen-scilt.bsky.social
@janecatlin.bsky.social
@uofgeducation.bsky.social
www.unive.it/pag/fileadmi...
4 months ago
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Another ELINET LEM Seminar is coming soon! 😀
4 months ago
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My team is celebrating whilst I am working hard at the PAAS conference
www.univ-tlse2.fr/accueil/rech...
in Toulouse! Life is hard 😉
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4 months ago
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Join us for the ELINET LEM seminar tomorrow: The Native-like speaker myth: Challenging native-like proficiency as the only measure of additional language success' by Dr Alissa Keith Jun 9, 2025 1:00PM UK time. More details:
elinet.org.uk/resources/se...
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https://elinet.org.uk/resources/seminars/the-native-like-speaker-myth-challenging-native-like-proficiency-as-the-only-measure-of-additional-language-success
5 months ago
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Lynne_SCILT
5 months ago
📣Primary teachers & primary student teachers 🏴 👋Join
@karen-scilt.bsky.social
@suzannescilt.bsky.social
& me in person & outdoors 🌻💨🍃🌤️at all 3️⃣ in person, interactive workshops 🎯Developing outdoor IDL contexts for targeted, incidental & practising language use outdoors from & with each other
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I probably should work on a few other things now but 'Translanguaging and creative arts: conceptualising collaborative creative practice' by Jessica Bradlay, School of Education, University of Sheffield is just about to start.... :)
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On 11 April are hosting our first ELINET Language Education and Multilingualism (LEM) methodology workshop - see below for more details and registration link!
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6 months ago
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On 11 April are hosting our first ELINET Language Education and Multilingualism (LEM) methodology workshop - see below for more details and registration link!
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6 months ago
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Exhausted but very happy and totally in love with Salamanca!
6 months ago
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On my way to present on artistic research into multilingualism @ the University of Salamanca I spent a day
@museoreinasofia.bsky.social
with Kilomba's Antigone and Picasso's weeping women. Great, powerful works to think with.
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Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía
Sitio web del Museo Reina Sofía. Información y programación de exposiciones, colección, actividades y proyectos de investigación en red.
https://www.museoreinasofia.es
6 months ago
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Calling Early Career Researchers in the field of
#LanguageEducation
and
#Multilingualism
! ELINET LEM invites proposals for the Early Career Researcher workshop Deadline: 31 March More details:
elinet.org.uk/events-and-o...
6 months ago
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ENROPE Spring School in Barcelona
@blanquerna.bsky.social
day 2 :) Introducing a plurilingual perspective in the ESP classroom by Josep Maria Cots -does the plurilingual approach make a difference in students' language learning outcomes?
6 months ago
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Joseph Fasano
6 months ago
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ENROPE Barcelona Spring School has officially started 🧡
@blanquerna.bsky.social
6 months ago
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Caroline Lenette
6 months ago
How gorgeous is this cover art!
@tawnychatmon.bsky.social
is the best 🙌🏽
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ELINET's Language Education & Multilingualism Strand invites you to our first methodology workshop! Please find more detail below & use this link to register:
forms.office.com/e/KY3zpSy1FE
7 months ago
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Yay! 'The Language of Art and Artists' is now *in production* and already mentioned on the series website! I am honoured to be part of it with a chapter about translanguaging in the work of
@malgodawidek.bsky.social
Monika Szydłowska i Krzysztof Wodiczko!
link.springer.com/book/9783031...
7 months ago
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Dr Sabine Little
7 months ago
A reminder for this conference call for PhD students/ECRs focusing on Chinese heritage language research in the UK. Submit your abstract here:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
#langsky
Please share with your contacts!
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Looking forward to seeing some of you this Wednesday at our Multilingualism Reading Group with Dr Wilhelmiina Toivo
@uofgmvls.bsky.social
Join us
@uofgeducation.bsky.social
@uofgsocsci.bsky.social
@uofgartshums.bsky.social
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7 months ago
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University of Glasgow
7 months ago
UofG, in partnership with
@glasgowcc.bsky.social
have launched Gaelic Connect, a digital platform connecting Glasgow's
#Gaelic
community. Find cèilidhs, learning groups & more at your fingertips.
@sngaidhlig.bsky.social
@uofgartshums.bsky.social
www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...
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Mòr-ionad didseatach ùr an dòchas ceangal ri coimhearsnachd Ghàidhlig Ghlaschu
New digital hub hopes to connect Glasgow’s Gaelic community
https://www.gla.ac.uk/news/headline_1149994_en.html
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Job alert! We are looking for a Research Associate to join our team!
www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research...
@laviniahirsu.bsky.social
@alisonphipps.bsky.social
@karen-scilt.bsky.social
@janecatlin.bsky.social
@uofgeducation.bsky.social
@scilt.bsky.social
@uofgunescorila.bsky.social
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Research Associate
Job PurposeTo make a leading contribution to the project Sustainable Designs for Living and Learning (SDLL): Embedding Multilingualism into Learning for Sustainability working with Lavinia Hirsu, D...
https://www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research-associate-16
7 months ago
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Delighted to be part of this project that embraces art and languages as crucial elements in our working towards more just, sustainable future! 🌱 Looking forward to working with
@laviniahirsu.bsky.social
@alisonphipps.bsky.social
@karen-scilt.bsky.social
@janecatlin.bsky.social
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7 months ago
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Alison Phipps አሊሰን
7 months ago
Today Language Matters: Guidelines for Education in a Multilingual World are published by UNESCO today, International Mother Language Day I authored the first draft, working through 2023-4 with a team seeking to embed UNESCO principles & multilingual education research into guidance for ministers
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Fabiana Fazzi is introducing the webinar series now and soon we will hear from
@jokedewilde.bsky.social
@uio.no
on Translanguaging in multilicultural school and community events! ❤️
7 months ago
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Our Cross-University Multilingualism Reading Group
@uofglasgow.bsky.social
@uofgsocsci.bsky.social
@uofgartshums.bsky.social
is meeting again! ❤️ Our guest will be Dr Wilhelmiina Toivo @ School of Psychology & Neuroscience
@uofgmvls.bsky.social
7 months ago
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UofG Unesco RIELA 🧡
7 months ago
There is joy in reading and writing about cultures of peace, even when peace feels elusive and fragile. We invite you to read this book published by
@multi-ling-mat.bsky.social
. It is available open access, with the option to buy a hard copy.
www.multilingual-matters.com/page/detail/...
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UofG Unesco RIELA 🧡
7 months ago
We are looking for poets who are interested in being a keynote listener at the UNESCO RIELA Spring School: The Arts of Integrating, on 13, 14 or 15 of May 2025. If you are interested, you can find all the information you need at the following link.
www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/...
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My first ever COIL! ❤️ Thank you
@salzacharias.bsky.social
@uofgeducation.bsky.social
@anapiquerpiriz-uex.bsky.social
Rafael A.González and all students - it was great to meet all of you and I so much loved the metaphors you shared with us!
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8 months ago
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