Helen McKelvey
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Teach @ModLangs_QUB. FHEA. Web Officer for @asmcf, ECA/PGR Rep for @UK_SDN. French, C19th, slavery, religion. Once described as 'Quite Audible'. Views my own.
Glasgow
Joined March 2013
Just a reminder that Friday’s session on impact is open to all of our members! If you aren’t a member, but would like to become one, you can sign up here:
uksdn.co.uk
SDN Membership Advantages Amongst the benefits of membership of SDN are free access to the Dix-Neuf journal and voting rights at the Society’s AGM. Membership entitles ECR members to submit publish…
Sign up for our ECR training session on impact: https://t.co/I2ehGQkY4G. This session will consider how to engage non-academic audiences by designing and implementing effective impact, and escaping the ivory tower.
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Sign up for our ECR training session on impact: https://t.co/I2ehGQkY4G. This session will consider how to engage non-academic audiences by designing and implementing effective impact, and escaping the ivory tower.
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What can we do to engage non-academic audiences? Join us to think about new ways to share research.
The second session on Impact will take place on 14th November, 4pm GMT. It will be hosted by Professor Helen Abbott (Birmingham) and Dr Hannah Scott (Newcastle). Sign ups will open in October for this event.
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Our Initiative Fund is open for applications until 𝟯𝟭 𝗢𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱: a small grant to help defray the costs of research events intended to benefit a wide public, such as conferences, study days, workshops & support for postgraduate activities.
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Come work with us @asmcf - it's great fun!
Calling all French/Francophone PGRs - we're looking for a new Post-grad Rep to join our committee. It's a fabulous 2-year opportunity to be part of a dynamic committee. Deadline for EOIs is 𝟯𝟭 𝗢𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱.
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https://t.co/CJVIXqhw1L has a fresh look! Follow the link to find all our news, the details and application forms for our prizes and funds, and information about our journal @FranceModern Have a peek at our brand new website here:
asmcf.org
We exist to promote, support and share new research into modern and contemporary France and the French-speaking world, focusing on history, cinema and…
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There is still time to sign up for our session on Alt-Ac Careers tomorrow (26/9) at 4pm BST. Sign up via Eventbrite or drop me a message if you are interested!
The @UK_SDN EDN Workshops return next week, with a session from James Illingworth & Stacie Allan on Alt-Ac careers. Sign up at https://t.co/vyzxJjenZa or contact me for more details!
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The @UK_SDN EDN Workshops return next week, with a session from James Illingworth & Stacie Allan on Alt-Ac careers. Sign up at https://t.co/vyzxJjenZa or contact me for more details!
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Discover alternative academic career paths and think afresh where your PhD could take you.
The first session will be on Alt-Ac Careers on 26th September at 4pm BST, delivered by Dr James Illingworth (IFSA) and Dr Stacie Allan (Translator and Consultant) To sign up for this session, please register with eventbrite here: https://t.co/oREoFbOcEP
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It was an exceptional year for our undergraduate prizes - there were lots of excellent submissions to both the Douglas Johnson and the Brian Darling prizes, and our judging panels had their work cut out for them in choosing! But there has to be a winner... 🥁 🥁 🥁
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It’s mid-September and we are fully feeling those “back-to-school” vibes here at SDN. Start the new academic year on a high by sending us your abstract for #SDNCardiff2026, on the theme of health and happiness. More details here:
uksdn.co.uk
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Le Déjeuner des canotiers, 1881. TWENTY-FOURTH ANNUAL CONFERENCESociety of Dix-Neuviémistes Health and happiness / La santé et le bonheur Cardiff University, 8–10 April 2026 …
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We hope to see many of you there as we discuss these important issues! For more information, or if you have any queries, please get in touch with our brilliant ECR officer, Dr Helen McKelvey @mckelvey_helen
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The second session on Impact will take place on 14th November, 4pm GMT. It will be hosted by Professor Helen Abbott (Birmingham) and Dr Hannah Scott (Newcastle). Sign ups will open in October for this event.
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The first session will be on Alt-Ac Careers on 26th September at 4pm BST, delivered by Dr James Illingworth (IFSA) and Dr Stacie Allan (Translator and Consultant) To sign up for this session, please register with eventbrite here: https://t.co/oREoFbOcEP
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We are delighted to share the details of our upcoming Early Career training sessions. These are open to postgraduate and early career members of the Society, and will take the form of a roundtable with the panelists, followed by an opportunity for attendees to ask questions.
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The Peter Morris Memorial Lecture, given this year by @DrStevenWilson - a fascinating interdisciplinary approach to disease, global health, colonialism, racism and inequality through Sartre's Typhus.
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We are delighted to announce that our new President, elected this morning at our AGM, is @DrStevenWilson 🎉 Welcome, Steven. The Exec look forward to working with you!
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Such a fascinating panel to start day 2 of #Nomadismes2025 @asmcf: In Transit: Representation & Visibility with papers on how migration, radicalisation, sexuality and travel are represented.
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Every conference should have its own walk/nomadism - a wonderful stroll round some of Canterbury's churches, including some spectacular plane trees, planted across the city in the shape of a cross.
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A really practical and helpful session from Larry Duffy and @DrStevenWilson for PGRs and ECRs on publishing articles - thanks for all the sound advice and encouragement!
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Our first keynote this year is Agathe Novak-Lechevalier (Paris Nanterre), giving us an overview of the journey that the idea/myth of nomadism has itself taken from the XIXe to the XXIe from Barrès through Deleuze to Houellebecq.
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A warm welcome from Chris Tinker (President) & Larry Duffy (Host) followed by Panel 1A on voyage brought some fascinating insights on gender, colonialism, travel narratives & what can be discovered in choosing physical, spiritual or intellectual nomadism.
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