Jane O'Connor

My article for @ConversationUK reflects on @britneyspears new memoir and the dangers of early fame @ChildStars2 @FCSFCS @childstarsIMDb @CSPACE_BCU @CSJcelebstudies

Delighted to have had the opportunity to contribute to Sam Lawrence's article on the price of child stardom: Child Stars: Hollywood’s Obsession with Exploiting Youth poplinenews.com/2025/12/20/chi…

If Mike thought fighting Vecna was hard, wait until he tries to succeed in traditional publishing...

@Fadiax @DrFautley @NC_Renic 'Desk rejected' would be a good name for a love story campus novel...✒️ 😄

@DrFautley @NC_Renic Nice one, Martin! The alluring suitor with a dirty secret that gets revealed at the Christmas dinner. Poor researcher walks away desk rejected 👌

Reasearch will not be understood, hearts will be inevitably broken, @NC_Renic 😆

Delighted to be guest editor of an upcoming special issue of Social Sciences focusing on 'Children, Media and Digital Transformation in Education'. See below for submission details: mdpi.com/journal/socsci…

RIP Brian Patten

IMPORTANT - new #hedgehog campaign launched today ... 'Go WILD for Hedgehogs' is a wonderful idea and encourages us to ease off on the gardening - a win:win really! change.org/p/help-save-br…

“Work on a good piece of writing proceeds on three levels: a musical one, where it is composed; an architectural one, where it is constructed; and finally, a textile one, where it is woven.” ― Walter Benjamin, born today in 1892

As Ottoline Leyser ends her five years as chief executive of #UKRI, she warns that forcing all institutions and researchers to pursue a single definition of research excellence is impoverishing the research base on which the government’s ambitions depend timeshighereducation.com/depth/ottoline…

@WytheJess Thanks Jess 😊

My supervisors are fantastic 🥰

Every new piece of tech seems designed to make us illiterate. Education and literacy are privileges we've come to take for granted, but our ancestors fought for them because they knew an ignorant people is not a free people. Whoever can prevent you from thinking rules over you.

Xiaoma, a polyglot, was invited to give a speech at a high school for Language Week, and he delivered the entire speech in Gen Alpha slang.

Letting your garden go a little bit wild is a brilliant thing to do for British wildlife like #hedgehogs! 🦔 Think leaves, logs, & letting the grass grow long with wildflowers & weeds! 🌼 🍂 🌾 #WildlifeWednesday

Every conference and other event I’ve ever spoken at, this person appears:

TEDH Project Dissemination Event at Hue University of Education, Vietnam. The project partners are Birmingham City University, Hue University of Education, Vinh University, Viettel Company, and the British Council in Vietnam. youtu.be/ArRC_xiWbLk

TEDH Project Final Workshop - Supporting the Digital Transformation of Teacher Education in Vietnam by Creating a Teacher Educators' Digital Hub.

Jung, and now I can’t unsee it.