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Khadija Assulaimi had her viva on Friday, and was awarded the PhD subject to minor amendments. Many thanks to examiners Paul Baker and El Mustapha Lahlali. And congratulations to Khadija for her excellent performance at the viva and all her hard work on the thesis.

Projects funded by The National Lottery Communities Fund are celebrating their work today under the hashtag #CommunitiesCan. Here Jeni and Jay say a little about Eggcup. Watch “Eggcup#CommunitiesCan” on Vimeo vimeo.com/478848002?ref=…

Photographers' lockdown project 12: Didi von Boch's ‘window shot inside out’ Zoom portraits: instagram.com/didivonbochpho…

Photographers' lockdown projects 11: Anna Shumanskaia does ‘virtual photoshoots’ online, photographing her computer screen: facebook.com/pg/annashumans…

Photographers' lockdown projects 10: @ZoeNorfolk does portraits through windows with lots of reflection: zoenorfolk.com/gallery.php?n=…

Photographers' lockdown projects 9: @ZakWaters shoots through windows, giving a sense of being closed in: kentonline.co.uk/folkestone/new…

Photographers' lockdown projects 8: Laura Dodsworth @BareReality measures the distance: <em>2 METRES</em>: life under lockdown spiked-online.com/2020/04/27/2-m…

Photographers' lockdown photo projects 7: Jodi Bieber photographs one man in many disguises: bjp-online.com/2020/04/eviden…

Photographers' lockdown projects 6: Christopher Fernandez shoots portraits (with permission) from his window: nhs.christopherfernandez.com

Photographers' lockdown projects 4: @AdamIsfendiyar 's portraits in East London (an interesting variety of ways of framing participants): adamisfendiyar.com/blog-london-ph…

Photographers' lockdown projects 3: @thejimclasshero doing #doortraits around Sydney: theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/g…

Photographers' lockdown projects 2: @alessiomamo at home with Covid-19: Masks, meals and Skype: self-isolating in Sicily - a photo essay theguardian.com/artanddesign/2…

Photographers' lockdown projects 2: The news photographer Alessio Momo at home with Covid-19: theguardian.com/artanddesign/2…

Coming back to Twitter to list some photographers' lockdown projects: 1. @Mattmendelsohn redoing the yearbook for students missing the end of their high school careers: mattmendelsohn.com/not-forgotten-…

Last year Brook Gladstone investigated poverty myths on WNYC On the Media. This year she has a very revealing series on Eviction - different laws from the UK, but recognisable dynamics. The Scarlet E wnycstudios.org/story/introduc… via @onthemedia

AUS airport seems to play only music associated with Austin. Great idea, but not sure if it would work at the next airports today, SLC and BOI.

This article about representation of demonstrators and city spaces is timely. Space and legitimation: The multimodal representation of public space in news broadcast reports on Hooded Rioters - Carolina Pérez-Arredondo, Camila Cárdenas-Neira, 2019 journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…

The NY Times reports on the effects of cancellation of bus services in Alston, and other austerity miseries. Same in rural Lancashire. ‘This Is All We Can Afford’: Shrinking Lives in the English Countryside nytimes.com/2019/05/13/wor…

Last two nights at @TheDukesTheatre for @ImitatingtheDog #HeartofDarkness. As always, they use innovative and beautiful projection, lighting, and sound, and resourceful acting. imitatingthedog.co.uk/heart-of-darkn…

And see the article by @carolipaya & Diane Belcher on developing her academic writing in French after years working in English. What language does she use for qualitative codes when she analyses multilingual data? Openaccess: cms.arizona.edu/ojs3/multiling…