Claire Hadfield
@literatelady.bsky.social
Senior lecturer in ITE at Plymouth Marjon Uni. English specialist. PhD candidate. Trustee at @devondeved Curious and enthusiastic about life and learning. Views are my own.
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📣 We're Recruiting a Volunteer Treasurer!
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November 20, 2025 at 12:56 PM
📣 We're Recruiting a Volunteer Treasurer!
We are a charity in Exeter looking for a committed, community-minded Treasurer to join our Board of Trustees.
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We are a charity in Exeter looking for a committed, community-minded Treasurer to join our Board of Trustees.
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📣 This Saturday - Exeter Together! 💚✨
Exeter stands proud as an inclusive, welcoming city. Join our peaceful protest with our March and Rally for hope and unity 🌈
#ExeterTogether #ExeterUnites #WeAreExeter
#InclusiveExeter #MulticulturalExeter
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#StrongerTogether
Exeter stands proud as an inclusive, welcoming city. Join our peaceful protest with our March and Rally for hope and unity 🌈
#ExeterTogether #ExeterUnites #WeAreExeter
#InclusiveExeter #MulticulturalExeter
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November 20, 2025 at 1:09 PM
📣 This Saturday - Exeter Together! 💚✨
Exeter stands proud as an inclusive, welcoming city. Join our peaceful protest with our March and Rally for hope and unity 🌈
#ExeterTogether #ExeterUnites #WeAreExeter
#InclusiveExeter #MulticulturalExeter
#AntiRacistExeter #StandUpToRacism
#StrongerTogether
Exeter stands proud as an inclusive, welcoming city. Join our peaceful protest with our March and Rally for hope and unity 🌈
#ExeterTogether #ExeterUnites #WeAreExeter
#InclusiveExeter #MulticulturalExeter
#AntiRacistExeter #StandUpToRacism
#StrongerTogether
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November 4, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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Also just to correct Matt Goodwin, who lied and said the UK spends:
"£15 billion housing asylum seekers"
- no we don't. It was 2.1 billion this last year.
And largely that's because the government is too stupid to let them work & help them get jobs while they wait for a decision. #bbcqt
"£15 billion housing asylum seekers"
- no we don't. It was 2.1 billion this last year.
And largely that's because the government is too stupid to let them work & help them get jobs while they wait for a decision. #bbcqt
UK's asylum hotel bill down 30%, government says
The Home Office's annual accounts show £2.1bn was spent on hotel accommodation in the year to March 2025.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 30, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Also just to correct Matt Goodwin, who lied and said the UK spends:
"£15 billion housing asylum seekers"
- no we don't. It was 2.1 billion this last year.
And largely that's because the government is too stupid to let them work & help them get jobs while they wait for a decision. #bbcqt
"£15 billion housing asylum seekers"
- no we don't. It was 2.1 billion this last year.
And largely that's because the government is too stupid to let them work & help them get jobs while they wait for a decision. #bbcqt
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I'm running a webinar about adaptive teaching on 5th November. Lots of practical advice about inclusive practice. Pay what you can to attend. Please share. Thank you! #EduSky
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-ultima...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-ultima...
The Ultimate Guide to Adaptive Teaching - Webinar with Sue Cowley
Eventbrite - Sue Cowley presents The Ultimate Guide to Adaptive Teaching - Webinar with Sue Cowley - Wednesday, 5 November 2025 - Find event and ticket information.
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October 20, 2025 at 12:21 PM
I'm running a webinar about adaptive teaching on 5th November. Lots of practical advice about inclusive practice. Pay what you can to attend. Please share. Thank you! #EduSky
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-ultima...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-ultima...
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The thing about the Overton window is that it just shifts by default if you let people propose insane policies like removing people with indefinite leave to remain without robust challenge. It doesn't just go away, it slowly leaks into the mainstream water supply unless you properly hose it down.
October 20, 2025 at 12:21 PM
The thing about the Overton window is that it just shifts by default if you let people propose insane policies like removing people with indefinite leave to remain without robust challenge. It doesn't just go away, it slowly leaks into the mainstream water supply unless you properly hose it down.
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This looks really brilliant 👇🏿👇🏿👇🏿
Please join me on 12th November at my @universityofleeds.bsky.social professorial inaugural lecture on ‘Language Diversity and Social (In)justice’. More info here, including a link at the bottom to book a ticket (which is free but we need to track numbers): ahc.leeds.ac.uk/english/even...
Professor Julia Snell's Inaugural Lecture: 'Language diversity and social (in)justice'
Drawing on research conducted over 20 years, Prof. Julia Snell interrogates the assumption that modifying children's speech will lead to educational success and social mobility.
ahc.leeds.ac.uk
October 14, 2025 at 9:52 AM
This looks really brilliant 👇🏿👇🏿👇🏿
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The shortage of English teachers has not been resolved - cuts in bursaries for trainees are a mistake, argues @sarahmullin.bsky.social @englishassociation.bsky.social
‘English is not just a subject – it is the foundation on which all other subjects are built’: @sarahmullin.bsky.social warns of the wider impact of withdrawing bursaries for teacher training in English
The end of English ITT bursaries sends a worrying message
The withdrawal of teacher training bursaries for English risks undermining more than just the subject itself – and it comes at a critical time, warns Sarah Mullin
www.tes.com
October 8, 2025 at 8:09 PM
The shortage of English teachers has not been resolved - cuts in bursaries for trainees are a mistake, argues @sarahmullin.bsky.social @englishassociation.bsky.social
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📢ARTIST CALLOUT📢
4-5 week paid placement for creative practitioner to work alongside the Gender and Sexuality Collective at Uni of Exeter.
💡Visual | Digital | Sound | Performing | Design | Lit | Film | Music
💡 Budget: £6,000
🗓️ Deadline: Sun 2 Nov
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4-5 week paid placement for creative practitioner to work alongside the Gender and Sexuality Collective at Uni of Exeter.
💡Visual | Digital | Sound | Performing | Design | Lit | Film | Music
💡 Budget: £6,000
🗓️ Deadline: Sun 2 Nov
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Arts & Culture Exeter | Creative Fellowship 2025-26: Callout for Artists
Applications are invited from creative practitioners for this year's Arts and Culture Creative Fellowship, which will be hosted by the Gender and Sexuality Collective, and will focus on reimagining th...
www.artsandcultureexeter.co.uk
October 3, 2025 at 9:41 AM
📢ARTIST CALLOUT📢
4-5 week paid placement for creative practitioner to work alongside the Gender and Sexuality Collective at Uni of Exeter.
💡Visual | Digital | Sound | Performing | Design | Lit | Film | Music
💡 Budget: £6,000
🗓️ Deadline: Sun 2 Nov
🔗 www.artsandcultureexeter.co.uk/news/creativ...
4-5 week paid placement for creative practitioner to work alongside the Gender and Sexuality Collective at Uni of Exeter.
💡Visual | Digital | Sound | Performing | Design | Lit | Film | Music
💡 Budget: £6,000
🗓️ Deadline: Sun 2 Nov
🔗 www.artsandcultureexeter.co.uk/news/creativ...
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To celebrate #BannedBooksWeek Banned Books Week, here's our list of recommended books for EYFS, KS1, KS2, KS3 and KS4 that have been banned or challenged. Some children cannot resist a book that adults have branded subversive! #kidlit
To celebrate #BannedBooksWeek Banned Books Week, here's our list of recommended books for EYFS, KS1, KS2, KS3 and KS4 that have been banned or challenged. Some children cannot resist a book that adults have branded subversive! #kidlit
Banned Books Week - our reading suggestions
Banned books week including titles by Roald Dahl, Judy Blume, Raina Telgemeier, David Levithan, Jason Reynolds and Sherman Alexie.
schoolreadinglist.co.uk
October 1, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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To celebrate #BannedBooksWeek Banned Books Week, here's our list of recommended books for EYFS, KS1, KS2, KS3 and KS4 that have been banned or challenged. Some children cannot resist a book that adults have branded subversive! #kidlit
To celebrate #BannedBooksWeek Banned Books Week, here's our list of recommended books for EYFS, KS1, KS2, KS3 and KS4 that have been banned or challenged. Some children cannot resist a book that adults have branded subversive! #kidlit
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Do good. Win prizes. What’s not to like?! 😊
September 24, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Do good. Win prizes. What’s not to like?! 😊
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i hope this article gives hope to any teachers who are confronted with ideologies of the 'word gap' in their schools. despite the stubbornness of this deficit concept, there are always spaces for resistance 💕 ila.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
new article published open access in Reading Research Quarterly 💫
Follow the word gap: the social life of a deficit concept
doi.org/10.1002/rrq....
i trace how deficit ideologies associated with the 'word gap' get reproduced - and rejected - in teacher education and schools.
Follow the word gap: the social life of a deficit concept
doi.org/10.1002/rrq....
i trace how deficit ideologies associated with the 'word gap' get reproduced - and rejected - in teacher education and schools.
September 26, 2025 at 5:32 AM
i hope this article gives hope to any teachers who are confronted with ideologies of the 'word gap' in their schools. despite the stubbornness of this deficit concept, there are always spaces for resistance 💕 ila.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Do good. Win prizes. What’s not to like?! 😊
September 24, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Do good. Win prizes. What’s not to like?! 😊
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*What makes or breaks teaching for young people?*
I have a new open-access paper out in @berj-2025.bsky.social bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Teacher-makers and teacher-breakers: (Re)defining how status and safety influence trajectories into and away from teaching
🧵(1/11)
I have a new open-access paper out in @berj-2025.bsky.social bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Teacher-makers and teacher-breakers: (Re)defining how status and safety influence trajectories into and away from teaching
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September 22, 2025 at 3:24 PM
*What makes or breaks teaching for young people?*
I have a new open-access paper out in @berj-2025.bsky.social bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Teacher-makers and teacher-breakers: (Re)defining how status and safety influence trajectories into and away from teaching
🧵(1/11)
I have a new open-access paper out in @berj-2025.bsky.social bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Teacher-makers and teacher-breakers: (Re)defining how status and safety influence trajectories into and away from teaching
🧵(1/11)
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Reform’s call to deport ALL people who legally make a life here - paying taxes, forming families, volunteering and even being elected - needs calling out.
Contrary to Farage, ILR doesn’t = criminal. They ARE net contributors to our economy.
An expensive, hateful & stupid plan.
Contrary to Farage, ILR doesn’t = criminal. They ARE net contributors to our economy.
An expensive, hateful & stupid plan.
September 22, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Reform’s call to deport ALL people who legally make a life here - paying taxes, forming families, volunteering and even being elected - needs calling out.
Contrary to Farage, ILR doesn’t = criminal. They ARE net contributors to our economy.
An expensive, hateful & stupid plan.
Contrary to Farage, ILR doesn’t = criminal. They ARE net contributors to our economy.
An expensive, hateful & stupid plan.
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Everyone in this country is descended from immigrants.
Every single last one of us.
And many, like Mr Farage, will have very recent migrant ancestors indeed and not even know about it.
Every single last one of us.
And many, like Mr Farage, will have very recent migrant ancestors indeed and not even know about it.
September 22, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Everyone in this country is descended from immigrants.
Every single last one of us.
And many, like Mr Farage, will have very recent migrant ancestors indeed and not even know about it.
Every single last one of us.
And many, like Mr Farage, will have very recent migrant ancestors indeed and not even know about it.
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This happened yesterday but with this news cycle...just so much happening.
So I'm sharing now.
We need to keep saying that Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.
The UN issued a report: 4 of the 5 genocidal acts have been carried out since the start of the war.
...
So I'm sharing now.
We need to keep saying that Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.
The UN issued a report: 4 of the 5 genocidal acts have been carried out since the start of the war.
...
Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, UN commission of inquiry says
The panel finds that four of the five genocidal acts defined under international law have been carried out against Palestinians during the war.
www.bbc.com
September 18, 2025 at 1:03 AM
This happened yesterday but with this news cycle...just so much happening.
So I'm sharing now.
We need to keep saying that Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.
The UN issued a report: 4 of the 5 genocidal acts have been carried out since the start of the war.
...
So I'm sharing now.
We need to keep saying that Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.
The UN issued a report: 4 of the 5 genocidal acts have been carried out since the start of the war.
...
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Here’s a poem called ‘English Roundabouts’.
September 15, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Here’s a poem called ‘English Roundabouts’.
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March 26, 2025 at 5:13 PM
We've joined Exeter Community Lottery - a fantastic opportunity for us to raise funds, plus gives you chances to win prizes too. Please share, and sign up to be a regular donor if you can.
Lottery not for you? Donate as a one-off or monthly via our link. cafdonate.cafonline.org/21412#!/Dona...
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We are accepting abstracts for our annual lecture series on subjects interacting with the theme of "A New Leaf" 🍃📚
The deadline for submissions is Monday 25th August. Please see the full call for papers on our website: devonandexeterinstitution.org/whats-on/tal...
The deadline for submissions is Monday 25th August. Please see the full call for papers on our website: devonandexeterinstitution.org/whats-on/tal...
July 11, 2025 at 1:24 PM
We are accepting abstracts for our annual lecture series on subjects interacting with the theme of "A New Leaf" 🍃📚
The deadline for submissions is Monday 25th August. Please see the full call for papers on our website: devonandexeterinstitution.org/whats-on/tal...
The deadline for submissions is Monday 25th August. Please see the full call for papers on our website: devonandexeterinstitution.org/whats-on/tal...
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Buy one-off tickets, or become a regular donor with a chance to win every week! Tickets are just £1. www.exetercommunitylottery.co.uk/support/devo...
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Support Devon Development Education on Exeter Community Lottery
Devon Development Education is offering you the chance to win big prizes and help raise much needed funds.
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September 4, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Did you know that you can support us AND be in with the chance of some great prizes via Exeter Community Lottery?
Buy one-off tickets, or become a regular donor with a chance to win every week! Tickets are just £1. www.exetercommunitylottery.co.uk/support/devo...
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Coming soon in Reading Research Quarterly 💫
Follow the word gap: the social life of a deficit concept
Follow the word gap: the social life of a deficit concept
August 30, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Coming soon in Reading Research Quarterly 💫
Follow the word gap: the social life of a deficit concept
Follow the word gap: the social life of a deficit concept