Tag Archives: Dr Cindy Becker

A student’s experience on academic placement

At the beginning of my third year studying English Literature at Reading, I realised I should finally start paying attention to all those emails we get about getting ‘real world experience’. I have always been interested in the theatre so … Continue reading

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Dr Becker’s latest publication

This month sees the publication of Dr Cindy Becker’s latest book, Teaching in Higher Education, written with Professor Pam Denicolo and published as part of the SAGE series Success in Research of which they are editors. This book is designed to walk readers … Continue reading

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Visit Days – thank you to everyone, including our visitors

We have enjoyed the Visit Days – and it seems that our visitors have, too… Mary Morrissey writes: 20th of March saw the last of this year’s department visit days. The visit days are a chance for ‘offer holders’ (those … Continue reading

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Academic placements – the way ahead

In the Department of English Literature we have been working hard, as have so many of our colleagues across the university, to make the most of the intellectual, personal and career advantages that placement learning can offer our students. We … Continue reading

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Open Day

Thank you to everyone who came along to our Open Day on Saturday. We enjoyed meeting you and hope that we were able to answer all of your queries. Thanks also for leaving us your email addresses – we will … Continue reading

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Supporting our postgraduates

  A reminder that on Tuesday 16th October, in HUMSS Room 110, Whiteknights Campus, we are offering postgraduate students in English the opportunity to come along and talk to an experienced doctoral researcher and a member of academic staff about the challenges and excitements of … Continue reading

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Postgraduate Research Group

This term we are pleased to be able to offer our postgraduate students a new form of support: a forum which combines subject-specific training, guided discussions and problem-solving presentations. The first of these is to be held in HUMSS 110 … Continue reading

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Supporting researchers

  A new series by SAGE Publications entitled Success in Research, edited by Lucinda Becker and Pam Denicolo, has recently been launched. The first two titles in the series, Developing Research Proposals and Publishing Journal Articles, written by the series editors, reflect our … Continue reading

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Thank you to our open day visitors

  We just wanted to say a big ‘thank you’ to all the students, parents (and grandparents) who visited us on Friday’s open day. We hope you enjoyed the day, and managed to see something of our beautiful campus despite … Continue reading

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INSET day in the English Department

On 14th March the English Department will welcome around twenty secondary school teachers to an INSET day. Our training days are themed, and the subject this time is Shakespeare. The programme is designed to be engaging whilst supporting the demands of … Continue reading

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