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Aileen McKenna

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Lecturer in postgrad pharmacy practice at Queen's University, Belfast. Interested in interactive fiction, creativity, and learning from failure in PG pharmacy education

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This Ship Argo - Medard and Nicholas (demo) Listen to This Ship Argo - Medard and Nicholas (demo) by This Ship Argo #np on #SoundCloud

Found an old song down the back of the sofa, made for a comp that wasn't released. Original files are lost to hard drive death, so here's a dodgy-vocals, truly unpolished version instead. Proceed with caution ☠️
This Ship Argo - Medard and Nicholas (demo) #SoundCloud
on.soundcloud.com/HIyl9Iii9PeL...

05.10.2025 22:27 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Me and my posters are en route to #fipCopenhagen2025! See you there!

30.08.2025 08:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
A biography of dr Aileen McKenna under her poster title "Interactive Fiction and learning from failure in postgraduate pharmacy education"

A biography of dr Aileen McKenna under her poster title "Interactive Fiction and learning from failure in postgraduate pharmacy education"

A biography of Dr Mary-Carmel Kearney under her poster title "Integrating generative artificial intelligence in pharmacy education: lessons from a novel clinical assessment in a global distance-learning module"

A biography of Dr Mary-Carmel Kearney under her poster title "Integrating generative artificial intelligence in pharmacy education: lessons from a novel clinical assessment in a global distance-learning module"

Dr Mary-Carmel Kearney and I will be presenting our research at #FIP2025 in #Copenhagen next week! If you're there come check out our posters on Wednesday 3rd Sept. We're presenting some research on the use of AI, and the use of interactive fiction in postgrad clinical courses. Come say hi!

28.08.2025 14:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Interactive fiction and learning from failure in distance learning postgraduate clinical pharmacy education - Research Portal | Lancaster University Find out more about Lancaster University's research activities, view details of publications, outputs and awards and make contact with our researchers.

Happy to report I'm now *DONE* with my PhD on learning from failure through interactive fiction, and it's up online! :) :)
doi.org/10.17635/lan...

13.08.2025 14:37 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

We have arranged a number of Townhall events in the coming weeks:

Tue 6 May: Online by Teams at 13:00 (link emailed)
Wed 7 May: David Keir Building, Room 0G/012 at 13:00
Thu 8 May: Mathematics & Physics Teaching Centre/0G/017 at 13:00
Tue 13 May: Geography Building/0G/029 at 13:00

30.04.2025 08:03 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2
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Narrascope 2025 | Celebrating Narrative Games NarraScope 2025 at Drexel University is an event that supports interactive narrative, adventure games, and interactive fiction by bringing together writers, developers, and players.

Reminder: submit academic papers to NarraScope 2025 by March 14! We invite abstracts and full papers exploring all aspects of interactive fiction, narrative games, visual novels, and video game narratives: narrascope.org/papers/

03.03.2025 16:04 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

ANNOUNCEMENT: EMERGENCY GENERAL MEETING - 6th February 11am

Members will have seen this morning that the University is launching a Voluntary Severance Scheme (VSS), hot on the heels of announcing a new Indian campus, while budgets for faculties, schools and directorates have all been slashed. (1/4)

03.02.2025 15:23 β€” πŸ‘ 25    πŸ” 16    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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Interactive Fiction Showcase 2024 A game jam from 2024-02-21 to 2025-01-01 hosted by manonamora. Won't finish before Jan 1st? the 2025 page is up ! Showcase your Game! The Interactive Fiction Showcase is a year-long

If you made an interactive fiction game this year, consider submitting it to this showcase

itch.io/jam/interact...

29.12.2024 19:34 β€” πŸ‘ 81    πŸ” 69    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0

did it with students in our last class today, & when they plugged in 'rude' & 'mean' their jaws dropped open

10.12.2024 20:54 β€” πŸ‘ 213    πŸ” 86    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 4

Join a union, folks.

Join. A. Union. ✊

25.11.2024 21:39 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

(by 'the' I really mean *our*...)

18.11.2024 20:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Was talking about this only today with some colleagues! I wonder how the postgrad taught population would like it...

18.11.2024 20:42 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ” Dive into the Wisdom of Practice category! Share deep reflections and original insights from your lived experiences in pharmacy. Explore what you've learned and how it shapes future steps in the field. 🧡 #Pharmed #WisdomOfPractice #PharmacyEducation

18.11.2024 13:46 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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