Kelly Hetherington

#HappyFriday and we were delighted to learn it is #NationalPetDay

Emi and Betsy are very valued members of the DRO team and we are so grateful for their support 😼🐾

Read our Open Research Team update for the last month!👇

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Latest library blog post by me 🤪🙂

Happy Valentine's Day! ❤️

Celebrate by reading 'Love' a book chapter co-authored by Philosophy's @joe-saunders.bsky.social which is available in DRO and recently came out of embargo:

durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1643328

#Philosophy

Published: doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6730-0_1070-1

Don't Call Me Mum The Hidden Power Play in Professional Settings

It happened AGAIN this week. A professional who should know better called me "Mum" in a meeting. Not Katherine. Just "Mum."

I wrote about why this seemingly "harmless" habit is actually a power play that needs to stop.

SEND parents - tell me I'm not alone?

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Ever wondered how #Christmas traditions shape our lives in the UK? 🎄Check out this work in our e-thesis repository by
Dr Lucinda Murphy:

"The Varieties of Christmas Magic: An ethnography of festivity, identity, and worldview in British life" etheses.dur.ac.uk/14759/

There I am tagging on 😆 to this group of amazing researchers who came to talk to the library about neurodiversity research 😍 (I organised them coming, but that was it - they did the hard work!)

'I quit to fight for my son': how the SEND crisis is wrecking women's careers Four in 10 parents of children with special educational needs have stopped working, and mothers are hit the hardest

Glad someone is looking at this impact. Trying to juggle work and two disabled kids is already hard (where are the accessible holiday clubs?!) but if your child can’t access school, forget it. Aren’t we meant to be “getting people back to work”?

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A flyer with details and a QR code for a training session: Responsible Authorship: How to identify and avoid predatory journals and publishers

🔜 Next up in our series of researcher development training sessions 👇

We explore the practices of predatory publishers, why such practices exist, and help ensure you're publishing your research in the best possible place for you.

Open to all staff and PGRs - do come and join us!

ALL behaviours are communication. This is still an area I see massively misunderstood in far too many schools😞sanctioning a child for unmet needs is never OK. It’s discriminatory at worst and cruel at best - not a good look. I also question how it fits with Teaching Standards🫤 #SEND #autism #ADHD

Good morning

♟️🤖 How can AI help judge tiebreaks in chess, without affecting the quality of matches?

Find out in this recently published, ✨fully OA✨, article co-authored by Professor Nejat Anbarci from Durham's Department of Economics.

👉 durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/2504964
👉 doi.org/10.1371/jour...

a digital illustration of a purple finch. the bird is in the center of the image. it is painted in hues of yellow, pink and brown. to its left and to its right, there’s some small drawings of circles and leaves falling, all in pink.

good morning bluesky, have a (mostly pink) purple finch! #birds #art wishing everyone a lovely day ❤️

You can read @dramypearson.bsky.social and colleagues' new papers in Durham Research Online:

Paper 1: durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/2989850
Paper 2: durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/2989864

Guides: Library Research Support: Open Research: Monthly Activity & News This guide is intended to provide advice and support on open access research, including guidance around Durham Research Online (DRO), open access publishing, research data management and related topic...

Here's what the Open Research team have been up to over the past month 👇

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Featuring:
🆕 A load of new stuff in DRO
🌍 International Open Access Week
📖 Researcher Development training

a woman standing in a library with a book titled room on the shelf ALT: a woman standing in a library with a book titled room on the shelf

Librarians moving dystopian novels to the nonfiction shelves.

Introducing my dog, Betsy