Lucy Pearson

We're opening our 2025-26 Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing x Outside in World webinar series Explorations in Translation for Children on Thurs Oct 23rd, @ 5pm GMT
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Good.

Yes! They are so reluctant to do so and it makes so much difference.

You feel invested in their work / problem and derive pleasure from solving the query. This must go two ways. I'd love to run an experiment of just taking as much as possible back to in person interactions and seeing how it affected staff and student wellbeing.

Thinking a lot today about how the digital works to increase stress and alienation in HE. So often we receive emails from e.g. a student we've never met and it just feels like another item on the to do list. If you actually see someone in person the same query takes on a social quality

Yes. Just an 'ordinary girl', you might meet her anywhere!

I wonder if for that period it just felt like a very likely ‘neutral’ name. I’ve noticed ‘Will’ is an extremely common children‘s book name too and surmise it’s for same reason

Sorry for your loss.

Look around parks - who is missing?

Teenage girls are systemically designed out of parks and public spaces. We campaign to design them in.

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#CFP: Aidan Chambers Memorial Issue
Children's Literature in Education
Guest editors: Dr Lucy Pearson (Newcastle University, UK) and Dr Hazel Sheeky-Bird (Independent Scholar)
Deadline for abstracts: 1 December 2025
Email: CLEChambersMemorial@gmail.com
Website: link.springer.com/collections/...

Also, it's one of the few movies I've seen recently that's made me keep thinking about it two days later.

You never feel the same level of threat when with Leonardo di Caprio's character as when you're with his daughter. Because that's the difference between being a white man and being a mixed race girl. I still feel a bit mixed about how it handled race and gender but this aspect really worked for me.

Saw One Battle After Another the other night and I think one of the things I enjoyed is that the combination of stoner comedy and big concept movie is actually quite intentional. The white men in this movie are literally in a different genre to everyone else.

The settlement website in the Bartz v Anthropic class action is now live: www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com.

It includes comprehensive information about the case and settlement, including a searchable tool to see if your books are included in the settlement and a claim form.

Starmer to end asylum ‘golden ticket’ of resettlement and family reunion rights People granted asylum will have to earn right to invite family in plan charities say is ‘straight from populist playbook’

Just to be clear this means that people who flee from incredibly dangerous situations, taking the riskiest routes out of desperatoon, will now face permanent separation from their families. Revolting. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Have you got interesting things to say about Aidan Chambers? Submit a proposal for our special issue of CLE! This one is a labour of love for me as one of the many people in the field who benefited from his mentorship

Child dies while reportedly trying to reach UK in small boat Body of teenager found on beach in northern France after three other people die in Channel crossings on Saturday

A child, two women, and a man tragically died trying to reach the UK over the weekend. Their lives were not lost to chance, but to choices: choices to shut down safe routes and leave people with no option but to take dangerous journeys.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

CFP: Special issue of Children's Literature in Education in memory of Aidan Chambers: link.springer.com/collections/... Deadline for abstracts 3rd December 2025.
Proposals welcome on any aspect of Aidan's career, including his writing, editorial work, contributions to education, and reader response

So sorry Jeremy. I don’t know you except via your newsletter but holding you and your family in my thoughts

States of Ignorance Cambridge Core - Twentieth Century European History - States of Ignorance

If you want to know what a new UK digital ID for immigration would mean, read "States of Ignorance" a book that came out of an ESRC project comparing the development of UK control with two countries with ID. From this research, I think it's a dangerous idea 1/ www.cambridge.org/core/books/s...

“There is no comparable requirement for boys to confirm their gender,” said another parent. “Once again, the onus is placed on girls to be monitored and regulated, reinforcing the idea that female athletes are the ones who need to be verified.”

Trans misogyny is just misogyny.

The last REF found that 98% of UK research was either "internationally recognised", "internationally excellent", or "world-leading". If you think low-quality research is the noteworthy challenge in UK higher ed right now, you are wilfully looking in the wrong direction

beware of people who want to "protect" the children but are vehemently opposed to empowering children, giving them information so they can have agency, teaching them about consent, and actually listening to them

a large circle with the word 'misbehaviour' in it. around the circle are the following phrase: non-standard grammar; slang; informal language; basic vocabulary; inarticulate; absence of politeness markers; mumbles; interrupts; not silent; does not retain eye contact; deviates from scripts; non-academic language; incomplete sentences; loud

in analysing 563 behaviour policies from the 34 largest multi-academy trusts in England, i show how 'misbehaviour' is associated with a constellation of linguistic features - these are of course not empirically connected, but ideologically connected.

what does ‘misbehaviour’ sound like? in new open access work i ask this question in the context of school discipline policies, looking at how ideologies of ‘im/proper language’ and ‘im/proper behaviour’ coalesce and get co-constructed with one another. doi.org/10.1080/0962...

People from all over are showing up for DC. This is not a moment. It’s a movement. We are united in our demands. We are all DC! #FreeDC

As a parent of a child who will probably attend this school I’m furious that they’ve opted to traumatise children instead of doing literally anything to prevent this kind of thing

I’m sorry, that’s horrible. My experience of working in public libraries was that it heavily intersected with social care. Libraries are one of the last safe spaces for the vulnerable.

With news of a reported settlement with Anthropic I went back to check the class action form and it now allows authors outside the US to input their address, so it may be worth adding your known pirated titles (from the LibGen pirate database) www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...

That lovely fellow next to her is Axel Scheffler, the illustrator of most of those 50 million, yet somehow not in the headline. Sure it’s an oversight. He’s also an incredibly nice person.