Meggie Copsey-Blake

Great, thank you :) looking forward to it

Professor Julia Snell's Inaugural Lecture: 'Language diversity and social (in)justice' Drawing on research conducted over 20 years, Prof. Julia Snell interrogates the assumption that modifying children's speech will lead to educational success and social mobility.

Please join me on 12th November at my @universityofleeds.bsky.social professorial inaugural lecture on ‘Language Diversity and Social (In)justice’. More info here, including a link at the bottom to book a ticket (which is free but we need to track numbers): ahc.leeds.ac.uk/english/even...

Hi Julia, please could you send me a link for this? It sounds great and I’d love to attend!

new article published open access in Reading Research Quarterly 💫

Follow the word gap: the social life of a deficit concept
doi.org/10.1002/rrq....

i trace how deficit ideologies associated with the 'word gap' get reproduced - and rejected - in teacher education and schools.

I'm going to make notes on Kamran Khan's plenary so follow away. #baal2025

Great experience at #BAAL2025 @uofglasgow.bsky.social this weekend, presenting my PhD research on standard language ideologies in UK higher education - a really supportive and uplifting atmosphere and inspiring work being done in the field. Thanks to all involved 😊

In Gaza City, we are saying goodbye Forced expulsion is looming and we know this time we may never see our homes again.

"Feeling the end of their city is coming, people are spending what they fear may be their last days in it with their families, having their single meal for the day, together. They are walking around their neighbourhoods, taking pictures"
#GazaGenocide
www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

Always deeply moved by the national marches for Palestine, we must protect our democratic right to protest. What is happening to Palestinians especially in Gaza is abhorrent - may we all be moved to action in whatever form it takes #FreePalestine

Using linguistic ethnography to uncover the mechanisms through which underprivileged students are denied access to classroom dialogue This article opens up the ‘black box’ of classroom interaction to investigate why opportunities to participate in academically productive (or ‘dialogic’) classroom discussion may be more readily av...

I’ve just read a very significant, utterly compelling article by @snelljulia.bsky.social on her research on classroom dialogue. If you read just one piece of research on Oracy between now and the summer, make it this! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Solidarity with trans women after today’s Supreme Court ruling.

The rollback of LGBT rights — especially trans rights — is global, bankrolled by billionaires and the far-right.

Trans rights are human rights. We must defend the Equality Act and its protections for trans people.

Anti-racism is not an individual mindset. It is collective action.

The insanity of being a fire ecologist in the epicenter of a major fire event, bags packed and ready to evacuate, watching active fire from my window, while taking media requests and explaining to the public, for the 100,000th time how climate change is largely responsible for this

How Much Does Our Language Shape Our Thinking? English continues to expand into diverse regions around the world. The question is whether humanity will be homogenized as a result.

A fascinating and balanced insight into ‘Whorfianism’ and related ideas www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

As an educational linguist I would add that efforts to linguistically prepare students for ‘the real world’ erase the linguistic heterogeneity of the world by framing language as a static set of rules rather than a creative tool for making sense of the world and our role in it