Happy to announce that yesterday I passed my viva w/ minor corrections \^_^/ Thank you to my examiners @mobswan & @drtrevorcollins for a rigorous conversation 🙏 Thank you @clemherman for chairing & HUGE thank you to my supervisors @JanetvdLinden & Marian Petre for guiding me ❤️

Dear @Beko & @currys: happy Xmas Eve. All we wanted for Christmas was a working washer/dryer to make our lives a little bit easier over the festive period whilst caring for 3 children under 5 but you've both let us down! Next year, we won't be using either of your brands - Ta!

Join us at @inspiredAUB at our beautiful space at the old Palace Court Theatre in Bournemouth town centre for a day of creative coding workshops, drawing machines and performances - including an algorave - on Saturday 30th September. https://t.co/QLxCnIApDx @hellocatfood @yaxu

A successful @microbit_edu session with Emilie @me_backwards and @declancabra last night - teaching our 4 Féach coders of the future! Another session due in Autumn #research

Join us tonight online for the festive edition 2022 of e-stitches! https://t.co/oUsDPRczFJ Join with a nice cuppa tea/ hot beverage 🥰 #etextiles #artsandtech #creativetech

#Newsnight basic role of government is to protect its people - when you work & cant afford anywhere to live, food & warmth for your family they have failed. And this isnt a fail of this government its a fail of 40 years of government.

We have a very nice Creative Community Hub happening at @TOSHBoscombe this coming Tuesday evening 🥰 all around self reflection and your creativity - come! https://t.co/upxNPSFO09 #Boscombe #Bournemouth #Creative #Dorset

BREAKING: Rishi Sunak has accidentally admitted on camera that he redirected funding from deprived urban areas towards affluent rural areas. You would think this would be the end of his leadership bid, but it's actually made him more popular with the Tory membership x

Free online course: Intro to Playful Programming with the Micro:bit and E-textiles. No previous programming experience required! NVDA screen reader assisted. Thursday, August 4, on Zoom at 7pm. Further info and signup: https://t.co/WLt3DKAZwj #FreeCourse #Programming #Beginners

hey @StitchingTgthr @StitchedVoices @SophiaKomninou @SophieSkach @me_backwards @Dorcasstories @conflicttextil1 @gabig58 @GillianMcFadyen could you please share this workshop call for papers in your networks?

Please join us online today for the @inspiredAUB AUB Human symposium today - starting at 1:30pm! https://t.co/ItwvNZpzBd Focusing all around sustainability and design.

Myself and the wonderful @JadeLevell featuring in a podcast for the @OUGradSch about our experiences of working on a PhD and conducting research whilst having kiddies! Let's keep the dialogue going! #phdlife #phdkids #academia #phdmum #postnatal #research

This is Desmond Swayne MP. He is my MP and he voted to allow raw sewage to be discharged into our rivers!

New workshop @plusxspace: Make soft robots and learn how to use electronics with textiles🤖 — Saturday November 6th. Led by the legendary Emilie Giles (@me_backwards)⚡️. And you can have a cheeky discount if you use this link: https://t.co/EpZ2ZVStsR

Whoop whoop! We're all booked for @GreenManFest 2022 ^_^ Super excited BUT a little bit disappointed that the carrot of 'early bird' tickets was dangled in front of us, only to find out that general tickets were also on sale, and yes, they're the only ones left now! Never mind...

My PhD thesis entitled 'E-textiles for Self-Expression: Participatory Making with Blind and Visually Impaired People' is finally online ^_^ via @OpenUniversity It can be downloaded here: https://t.co/epgEWtBHCs #PhD #HCI #Etextiles #makerculture #Accessibility #Visualimpairment

Tomorrow is the first Creative Community Hub meet-up at @TOSHBoscombe and I am very excited to be facilitating it with El Deane 🤗 there is still some space to sign up here: https://t.co/G6qYWqz0tm #Boscombe #creativebusiness #shoplocal #southcoast #southbourne #bournemouth

So excited 🙏🥳 we managed to get tickets for @GreenManFest! This place means a lot to us. Historically I ran etextile workshops there as part of @codasign & since then it was our daughter’s first festival! It is a place of peace, joy and comfort. I can’t wait ❤️ #greenman21

Nice one @BandQ! Even we were planning on shopping in your #Watford shop with our 8 month & 3 year old whilst also going to the skatepark we got told we werent allowed to - even though legally we can park up to 2 hours??Shame on you. @WatfordCouncil this needs to be discussed