The COVID19 pandemic was experienced differently across the world and in individual lives, highlighting inequalities and forcing new and unexpected attention to everyday life and even the right to an every day. In this seminar Jessica will discuss research in progress with creative journaling with mothers in the north of England, part of a wider programme at the intersections of arts and health which explores the role of and possibilities for creative practice in supporting people to ‘re-emerge’ after the COVID19 pandemic. Drawing on multimodal data generated through participant observation, she critically engages with notions of everyday life, creativity, and collective and individual experiences.

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Jessica Bradley is an interdisciplinary linguist, whose research spans modern languages, translation studies, applied linguistics and creative practice. She is committed to ethnographic approaches to research and collaboration with creative practitioners. She co-founded the AILA Creative Inquiry and Applied Linguistics Research Network and co-edited the book Translanguaging as Transformation: The Collaborative Construction of New Linguistic Realities (2020). She is programme director for the BA Education, Culture and Childhood and deputy director for the EdD programme in the School of Education at the University of Sheffield. Website: https://sites.google.com/sheffield.ac.uk/dr-jessica-bradley/home.

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