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Jenny Crane @jennycrane.bsky.social · 5h

Nice one! Amazing research! ✨

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Dr Fabiola Creed @fabiolacreed.bsky.social · 7h

📙 Bluesky is the only platform where I haven’t circulated my book, as I’d recently joined and was waiting for the physical copy. So here it is (last book post, I promise) 📙

☀️ Sunbed in Britain: Tanning Culture from Fad to Fear is free to download via: dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781...

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Jenny Crane @jennycrane.bsky.social · 9h

What a pleasure to be hosting the biannual @healthgeographyrgs.bsky.social PGR/ECR conference this year in Bristol! ✨ Wonderful papers on our first cluster "blue bodies" 🌊🌊 thank you for the funding, @rgsibg.bsky.social

Photo of the biannual PGR/ecr health geography conference, in the old council chambers of university of Bristol

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Sarah Bell @sarahbell85.bsky.social · 1d

Lovely to chat all things public engagement and impact this afternoon ☺️ Looking forward to a fab set of talks tomorrow 🙌 @healthgeographyrgs.bsky.social

Jenny Crane @jennycrane.bsky.social · Aug 29

ENRGHI 2025 is open for registration, and last chance to submit an abstract is 1 September.

www.rgs.org/events/upcom...

7-8 October, University of Bristol: join a 30 year tradition of connecting PGR and ECR research across geographies of health and wellbeing.

@healthgeographyrgs.bsky.social

ENRGHI conference poster on a watery background, says 'ENRGHI 2025, 7-8 October, University of Bristol; a two-day event showcasing health and wellbeing research by postgraduate and early career researchers, organised by the RGS-IBG Geographies of Health and Wellbeing Research Group. Special strand 2025: blue bodies.'

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Laura Tisdall @lauratisdall.bsky.social · 1d

The call for papers for the @histchild.bsky.social 2026 conference at the University of Sheffield, 1-3 July, is now up on our website! Deadline 14 December www.histchild.org/pages/sheffi... #histchild #skystorians #histyouth

Fifth Biennial Conference | Children's History Society

University of Sheffield, 1-3 July 2026

www.histchild.org

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Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 5d

Coming soon💨

How has energy shaped a nation?

Electric Wind by @DudleyMarianna.bsky.social is a cutting-edge history of wind power in Britain, from the industrial revolution to the aftermath of war, through energy crises and the changing politics of the late twentieth century💡

Pre-order now!

Promotional image for Electric wind. Book sits in centre of image. The book cover is a digital drawing of rolling blue and green hills with a purple cloudy sky in the background. Wind turbines and trees can be seen dotted along the hills. Text along bottom of image reveals the book's publication date: October 14th 2025.

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Jenny Crane @jennycrane.bsky.social · 8d

Lovely to connect with @uobrishistory.bsky.social, and to hear more about Victoria and Sarah's powerful books - on hospital colours and chronologies as overlapping and layered, and on mothers radicalised by and of the women's liberation movement. I've read both these books and really loved them 💖

Dr Victoria Bates @victoriabates.bsky.social · 9d

Lovely to do a book launch-lunch today with @jennycrane.bsky.social and @sarahcrook.bsky.social - thanks to everyone who came along!

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Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social · 15d

Autism is back on the front pages. Why not read the book that my excellent @manchester.ac.uk @manchstm.bsky.social colleague Dr Bonnie Evans has published on the history of autism? It's open access and you can read it online for free.

www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781...

Cover of Dr Bonnie Evans' book The Metamorphosis of Autism: A History of Child Development in Britain (Manchester University Press, 2017)

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Bristol IGRCT @igrct.bsky.social · 29d

🏳️‍🌈 EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT 🏳️‍🌈

For this year's Symonds lecture, Nicky Taylor and Alexander Sugar present “No man can see himself as others see"
Bringing the personal papers of John Addington Symonds to new audiences. #queerhistory

🎟️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/talk-on-th...
⏰4PM, 4/10
📍Peel Lecture Theatre

The poster for the event discussed. It features various photographs and drawings from John Addington Symonds' life, such as a photograph of him on a sledge and a drawing of his dog.

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Jenny Crane @jennycrane.bsky.social · 20d

Please consider reaching out to one of my wonderful PGR students, Buse, if you have ever been labelled 'gifted', and are happy to discuss. . .

Buse Demirkan Pehlivan @busedp.bsky.social · 22d

🌟 Gifted? Talented? Share your story! 🌟
I’m a PhD researcher at the University of Bristol running online interviews with adults (18+) in England & Wales about growing up with this label.
🔗 linktr.ee/busedemirkan or 📩 [email protected]

#GiftedEducation #PhDResearch #ShareYourStory #Giftedness

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Jenny Crane @jennycrane.bsky.social · 22d

Congratulations, this is wonderful news!

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Jenny Crane @jennycrane.bsky.social · Sep 8

This looks so useful!!! I will preorder!

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Marianna Dudley @dudleymarianna.bsky.social · Sep 2

Six weeks from publication! Forgive a little book promo. I’ve got some talks lined up this autumn if you want to hear more about Electric Wind. Feel free to message me for more details.

Electric Wind talks and events in autumn 2025 (arranged by date)

Electric Wind talks in autumn 2025 arranged by place

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Jenny Crane @jennycrane.bsky.social · Sep 1

Please do! 🙏

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Dr Agnes Arnold-Forster @agnesjuliet.bsky.social · Sep 1

We're reading @jennycrane.bsky.social's fantastic article on the history of public consultation and health policy in our policy team's analysis/reading group at the Health Foundation this week! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Why the history of public consultation matters for contemporary health policy

Contemporary policy debates construct public involvement in England’s National Health Service as “new,” or as a practice dating back only as far as th…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Jenny Crane @jennycrane.bsky.social · Sep 1

That's so cool - thank you so much for letting me know! 🤩😍

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Jenny Crane @jennycrane.bsky.social · Sep 1

global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Super happy to talk to research seminars, teaching groups, etc., on this project - whether on the painful process of writing (through the pandemic and two maternity leaves) or on the findings themselves.

Thanks!

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Jenny Crane @jennycrane.bsky.social · Sep 1

The book discusses why, where, and when publics and policymakers care about identifying 'gifted' children? What kinds of hopes are placed on this group, once labelled? And how does it feel to be responsibilised for national and global visions of 'the future', and what avenues remain for resistance?

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Jenny Crane @jennycrane.bsky.social · Sep 1

September, ahh!

Forgot to share this promotional code for my new(ish) book before - AUFLY30 on OUP's website.

Useful book for reading lists on:

- fluxes in 'elitism' & 'equality'
- childhood writing methodologies
- 'agency' as concept
- voluntary action and 'education' beyond schools

Promotional code for the book 'Gifted Children' in Britain and the World, for 30% discount on the OUP website use AUFLY30

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Jenny Crane @jennycrane.bsky.social · Aug 29

ENRGHI 2025 is open for registration, and last chance to submit an abstract is 1 September.

www.rgs.org/events/upcom...

7-8 October, University of Bristol: join a 30 year tradition of connecting PGR and ECR research across geographies of health and wellbeing.

@healthgeographyrgs.bsky.social

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Jenny Crane @jennycrane.bsky.social · Aug 7

This RGS, please consider coming to hear from 5 fantastic PGR researchers in health geographies - they'll be offering lightning talks, comments on connections with one another's papers, and then we'll open up for discussion about the creativities of this lively discipline!

This is a poster for a session at the annual RGS-IBG conference. The session is called 'Emerging scholars on creativity and geographies of health and wellbeing', and features talks from 5 PGR students - it will be on 27th August, 1110-1250PM, in the Teaching and Learning Building Room 211.

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healthgeographyrgs.bsky.social @healthgeographyrgs.bsky.social · Feb 21

Deadline extended: Sponsored sessions @rgsibg.bsky.social Annual Conference

We're particularly interested in sponsoring sessions that engage with the conference theme & address creativity from the perspective of health, wellbeing & medical geographies

👉 ghwrg.wordpress.com/ghwrg-sponso...

#GHWRG

Call for sponsored sessions: RGS-IBG Annual Conference

***DEADLINE EXTENDED*** The Geographies of Health and Wellbeing Research Group of the RGS-IBG invites expressions of interest for sponsored sessions at the RGS-IBG 2025 Annual Conference. The confe…

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Jenny Crane @jennycrane.bsky.social · Aug 19

Have you attended the @healthgeographyrgs.bsky.social ENRGHI conference, over its 31 year history? If so can you please get in touch to share any interesting messages or memories for attendees this year at University of Bristol? We have a first half-day of workshops and are making posters 🎨

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Jenny Crane @jennycrane.bsky.social · Aug 7

@rgsibg.bsky.social @healthgeographyrgs.bsky.social

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Jenny Crane @jennycrane.bsky.social · Aug 7

Almost but not quite too late to apply to present at the annual PGR/ECR conference of the Geographies of Health and Wellbeing group. It's at Bristol this year, 7-8th October. Special strand on 'blue bodies' but any research linked to health geographies is so welcome 🌿

ENRGHI 2025: Embodiment and water - blue bodies

Gain constructive feedback and engage with a community of researchers who share an interest in the geographies of health, wellbeing, and impairment.

www.rgs.org

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