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Dr Madeleine Pownall

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Lecturer in Psychology. Keen bean. Feminism, pedagogy, reflexivity, open science. Author of ABSENT MINDS ( @headlinepg , 2026) 📖 She/her 🌻

University of Leeds
Joined March 2011
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2 years
It happened! A reviewer suggested that I familiarise myself with the work of Pownall et al (2019, 2020) to understand the field better 🤪
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2 years
@DJROE95 I mean... it was a scathing rejection, so maybe I don't understand my own work 😁😁
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3 years
I've now reached the stage of life where I don't get drunk and text an ex, I get drunk and accept peer review requests 💁‍♀️
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3 years
I was today years old when I learned that if you type PRIDE in the top columns of a Google Sheet, it turns your spreadsheet into a rainbow 🌈🥺 Cute!
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3 years
Academic life hack: If you're giving an online presentation and want to be able to see your notes without looking down, the app 'Transparent Note' lets you overlay notes on top of your presentation while still seeing the rest of the screen! 🤯 #AcademicTwitter #PhDChat
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4 years
Important update! The reviewers *hated* it 🙂
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4 years
I've just submitted the first paper of my PhD for publication! 🎉 It's a big experimental 3-study registered report, with 2 complete studies (N = 773) and 1 proposed follow-up. This is a good day! #AcademicMilestone
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1 year
Props to the students today who spontaneously called out "BABY DON'T HURT ME" after I asked "what is love?" during a lecture on sexual romantic relationships
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Dr Madeleine Pownall
5 years
Things I never realised would feature so heavily in a career in academia: • Doodle polls • Gantt charts • Writing to-do lists on mini whiteboards • JISC mailing lists • Expenses claim forms • Laminated name badges • University sandwiches • Room booking systems • Twitter
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4 years
Shocked and appalled today to learn that studying for a PhD is, in fact, quite hard
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Dr Madeleine Pownall
2 years
There's been a lot of ~discussion~ on Academic Twitter recently about positionality, reflexivity, and ethics in qualitative research. This feels like a good time to remind quantitative researchers that this applies to *all* paradigms. [see our paper, ]
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2 years
Wild new research tool alert!🤯If you plug a research question into , it uses AI to not only find relevant papers but pulls out ANSWERS from the papers. Adding to my list of things that would've changed the game at the start of my PhD #AcademicTwitter
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Dr Madeleine Pownall
4 years
Reviews back for a qualitative content analysis paper: Reviewer 1: "There is literally no statistical analysis. Therefore, this paper contains no results." Reviewer 2: "the sample size is far too small" 👍 Cool 👍
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Dr Madeleine Pownall
3 years
Huge fan of my new laptop sticker 💕✨👩‍💻🌸💪 #PhDChat
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@drkellyallen "Lacks depth"
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2 years
Over the past year, I've been a participant in different interview studies to help me get an 'insider' perspective on qualitative research and understand what it really feels like to be a participant. It has been SO insightful. Some thoughts! 1/8 🧵
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@diervilla @DJROE95 I'm disappointed it's a rejection mainly because that means I can't respond to them
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3 years
Today’s a great day 🎉 Submitted my PhD thesis!!!
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3 years
My boyfriend spent the weekend learning APA formatting so he could thoroughly proofread my thesis for me. Love that guy 🥺
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3 years
It’s not procrastination if it’s pretty 🌈
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4 years
Another day, another cool research tool that's blown my mind. If you enter your favourite paper into the @ConnectedPapers website, it produces a web of interrelated work (including citations, date published etc). So nifty for scoping reviews!
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2 years
PhDone!!! 👩‍🎓
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3 years
Re-sharing this nifty tool because it's legit changed my academic life. You upload your paper and it your compares in-text citations with your reference list, flags deviations from APA formatting, and highlights missing refs. Amazing! #AcademicChatter
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Dr Madeleine Pownall
4 years
My first PhD paper was just accepted for publication! 😭😭😭
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4 years
Today's Monday mantra: If Kanye can run for President, you can send that draft to your supervisors
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Dr Madeleine Pownall
4 years
Do I know anyone whose PhD contained *only* null results? Given the bias we have for finding sexy sig results, I'm now getting twitchy about the idea of defending a thesis that reads like "I did some stuff and...I found nothing". (Asking for a friend aka me) #AcademicTwitter
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Dr Madeleine Pownall
2 years
This morning a woman was quickly running towards my bus stop so I asked the driver to wait for her. As she blindly ran past us, I was reminded that some people just run along roads for, like, fitness
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2 years
After spending all morning coding 5 hours of focus groups in which students discussed their experiences of online teaching, I'm convinced that all research that wants to say something meaningful about the student experience should be qualitative
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Dr Madeleine Pownall
2 years
DELIGHTED to share that today I passed my PhD viva with minor corrections! 🎉Huge thank you to my examiners Dr @novadsmith , Dr @DrJTJohnson and Prof Robbie Sutton. And my supervisors Dr Russ Hutter and Prof Mark Conner. I'm #PhDone and I couldn't be happier 🎉🥲
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4 years
Even more important update: I have made a blackberry crumble and will face the reviewer comments next week
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Dr Madeleine Pownall
2 years
Gave a lecture today on the philosophy of science and afterwards a student said “so if I put a vase on a stool, does that make it a table?”. I’ve thought about literally nothing since
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3 years
When it’s your pal’s birthday and you’re both academics…
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Dr Lucy Prodgers
3 years
Probably the best 40th birthday gift ever! What a collaboration @maddi_pow 😍 #AcademicTwitter #PhDpal #phdchat
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After spending hours interviewing people about their perspectives on psychology measures I cannot stress enough how the science reform movement would benefit from simply ✨talking to people✨
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Dr Madeleine Pownall
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Me on Twitter: Here's my new paper that I poured my soul into for 3 years [5 likes] Also me: Lol I get drunk sometimes [10k likes]
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I've now reached the stage of life where I don't get drunk and text an ex, I get drunk and accept peer review requests 💁‍♀️
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Me to my supervisors: please be brutal with your feedback on my work! I can take it! I really want to learn :) Them: I'm not sure about this sentence Me: #AcademicChatter
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Dr Madeleine Pownall
3 years
Checked my work email to find that my promotion to Lecturer was successful 🥂🌻 This is a truly great week
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3 years
Final book manuscript sent to the publishers! It's all over! Woohoo! 🌻 #AcademicChatter
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2 years
What do lay people actually make of the measures we use in psychological research? We interviewed 23 people and spoiler alert, they had a lot to say. New preprint (stage 2 registered report) with Joseph Mason, @Flavio_Azevedo_ and Amy Palmer!
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Dr Madeleine Pownall
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I see a lot of Psychology ECRs on Twitter discuss the extortionate costs of conference registration/travel. Throughout the first year of my PhD I started compiling a list of travel bursaries suitable for postgrads. Here's a short thread of open funding opportunities: 1/9
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Today I learned that my fiancé snuck off to go ring shopping while I was in my PhD viva 🥲😭 I accept this man with no revisions 💖
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Dr Madeleine Pownall
4 years
Working from home life hack: Every morning Hugh and I have been getting up, getting dressed, and walking a 10-minute 'commute' to work around the block. We do the same on an evening to 'go home again' and it has been *life changing* for establishing home-work boundaries
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3 years
It’s publication week of my pride and joy, A Feminist Companion to Social Psychology! with @OpenUniPress & Wendy Stainton Rogers (And yes, I did purchase mini book earrings✨) RT this post for a chance to win a free copy of the book. Winner decided at random on 1st Dec!📚
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If your new year's resolution is to embed more #openscience into your teaching, then good news! Our paper "Embedding open and reproducible science into teaching: A bank of lesson plans and resources" has just been published! 🔗 🔓
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5 years ago today was my A-level #ResultsDay . I got a C in Psychology and was advised to rethink my degree subject In other news, my Psychology PhD is going well 🌟
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2 years
Today was one of those really great Saturdays 🥰
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2 years
This blew up a bit - hi new followers! Come for the academic banter, stay for the science chats, pedagogy questions, and photos of my pretty stationery 👋
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It happened! A reviewer suggested that I familiarise myself with the work of Pownall et al (2019, 2020) to understand the field better 🤪
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Dr Madeleine Pownall
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Turning a thesis chapter into a paper and thought I was being clever by using a shortcut to replace all occurrences of "thesis" with "paper" until I got to "it was hypopapered that..." 🤪
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I’ll finish my PhD this year 😌
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PhD life is constantly alternating between ‘rejection is normal!’ and ‘my work is bad’. It’s exhausting #AcademicChatter
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Dr Madeleine Pownall
3 years
Yesterday I was offered my dream job so I’m spending today celebrating (aka making brownies and buying stationery) 💞
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In response to discussions about replicability of qualitative research, I argue that focusing on replication is the wrong standard for what quality/rigour/robustness looks like for this type of research
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Dr Madeleine Pownall
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I recently read a full 2019 PhD thesis online, emailed the author to say I enjoyed it and I liked her methods. She's now sent me a huge bank of resources (including scans of book chapters, her own notes & useful papers) and we're meeting up at a conference next year💘 #phdchat
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Dr Madeleine Pownall
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We lost my lovely grandpa to covid this week. The thought of a socially distanced funeral is heartbreaking. Send love please, Twitter
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Best weekend of my life 💜
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5. The single most effective question in any interview (for me) was: "Is there anything else you think is important for me to know, that I haven't yet asked about?". In some cases, this opened up a whole new discussion and felt like my voice was being centred 6/8
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I love how 'we should have a Google doc!' is the academic equivalent of 'we should start a band!' #AcademicTwitter
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Dr Madeleine Pownall
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Last week I had never used R before and now after 3 classes with @emilynordmann & @LisaDeBruine I have managed to load up my own dataset from a study, wrangle it, and make my first ggplot 😭 I'm disproportionately proud! Thank you #PsyTeachR people!
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4 years
Book manuscript submitted 🥂🥂🥂 #AcademicTwitter
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So, news! I'm staying at @LeedsPsyc as a permanent T&S Lecturer in Psychology 🎉 and (the best bit!), I'll be working on my @leedsteaching Fellowship and the 'Curriculum Redefined' project in psychology, which is a big overhaul of how/why/what we teach across the university
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Yesterday I was offered my dream job so I’m spending today celebrating (aka making brownies and buying stationery) 💞
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✨ I am SO excited to finally share our new preprint: "Navigating Open Science as Early Career Feminist Researchers" Link: [overly enthusiastic & appreciative thread incoming] 1/6
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I've just finished my final thesis chapter which means only references, formatting, and proofreading stand between me and freedom 🥲🥲🥲
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I am so, SO happy to have been selected as the 2021 winner of the Wilbert J. McKeachie Teaching Excellence Award by @TeachPsych 😭 I love the teaching part of my job so much and I'm so excited to celebrate at the ACT conference! Best start to the week ever. #AcademicTwitter
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@ZJAyres Hi I'm Maddi and I'm just a bit much ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨
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Dr Madeleine Pownall
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@sTeamTraen Just to say - this doesn't feel like a particularly fair, kind, or constructive way of starting a conversation about this paper. If you have specific concerns, they can be articulated in a way that doesn't give the vibe of starting a pile-on on an ECR who's done (IMO) a fun study
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Dr Madeleine Pownall
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When you're having a heavy teaching day but you're blessed with a student in the front row who 💕nods and smiles 💕
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Dr Madeleine Pownall
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My lockdown goals on 4th April • Become an expert in R • Finish my PhD 2 years early • Learn (at least) 3 new languages • Get a top-tier publication My lockdown goals on 4th May • Keep myself alive • ... Netflix?
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I got promoted! Woohoo! So grateful to be at an institution that values and celebrates pedagogical research, collaborative scholarship, and contributions to student education ☺️
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Congratulations to RitPoSE members on their recent promotions success! Dr Richard Harris ( @HarrisR_Psy ) is now an Associate Professor and Dr Maddi Pownall ( @maddi_pow ) is now a Grade 8 Lecturer
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Spent Sunday in IKEA buying pretty things for my desk rather than actually working on my thesis and it feels like time well spent ✨
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I've just submitted the first paper of my PhD for publication! 🎉 It's a big experimental 3-study registered report, with 2 complete studies (N = 773) and 1 proposed follow-up. This is a good day! #AcademicMilestone
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Dr Madeleine Pownall
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The process of confronting, celebrating, and centring researcher bias is necessary for all methodologies, including quantitative research. New paper with @themichjam and @GiselaGovaart , where we provide a rationale, worked examples, and reflexive prompts
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Finally, participating in a study means talking with a stranger, who you may never speak to again, about stuff which can get personal. This is a big ask and can feel exposing. This all has made me realise the importance of attending to these feelings properly in our research 8/8
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Dr Madeleine Pownall
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So pleased that our paper "Navigating #OpenScience as Early Career Feminist Researchers" is now published in Psychology of Women Quarterly! It has been such a joy to work on this over the past year with a team of *amazing* ECRs.
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Today I turn 24 which means I have one solid year of brain development left 🧠🎂✨
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Asked my supervisor what extra PhD stuff I should be doing over the summer. “Book a holiday” was the advice. Love that #MakeAcademiaKindAgain
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Over the past 5 days I have learned that the very best way to cure a PhD writing block is to take time off, block email notifications, drink flat whites, eat brownies, and be outdoors for a bit 😊
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I have news! My new popular science book "Absent Minds: Reclaiming the Missing History of Women in Psychology" is forthcoming with @headlinepg ! The book will tell the stories of women in psychology who have been written out of history. A dream come true!
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Some news! I'm VERY excited to share that I have signed a book contract with @OpenUniPress 🎉. 'A Feminist Companion to Social Psychology', coauthored with Professor Wendy Stainton-Rogers, will be out next year! This is the first book in a new series of 'Feminist Companions'. Eek!
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My granny challenged the family to an egg decorating competition and we did not disappoint
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New paper! So proud of this one. Students wrote postcards to their future graduating self in the first week of term as a transitions activity. I share reflections and examples of the funny, heart-warming loveliness that they wrote here:
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New paper with @HannahRSlack ! There's a lot of literature on PhD wellbeing and academic staff wellbeing, but what about people who straddle this border? We explored the experiences of Graduate Teaching Assistants and show how complex this identity can be
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So very very happy to have been awarded a @UniversityLeeds Early Career University Teaching Award 🥲✨
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A new entry to 'post-viva things that made me cry' 🥲
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Dr Madeleine Pownall
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See also: making PowerPoint slides, overly strong coffee, navigating the Key Travel website, completing risk assessments, and Reply-All emails
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I am convinced that students' transition to university would drastically improve if Higher Education simply banned the use of acronyms
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Today I asked my 5 year old niece to be my flower girl at my wedding and she said "No, thanks. I do not want to do that". We love a ✨decisive✨ queen
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Now out in Royal Society Open Science! We critically review the evidence for teaching open and reproducible scholarship and the associated student outcomes. A monumental @FORRTproject team effort with @Flavio_Azevedo_ and 70 collaborators across the world!
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Dr Madeleine Pownall
3 years
My first sole-authored paper is now out in @PWQ4U ! In the teaching brief, I share 3 interactive activities that I use to teach feminist psychology in an asynchronous online context using @padlet . I also share some tips for using Padlet in online teaching👩‍🏫
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3 years
"??" is not constructive feedback. That's it. That's the tweet
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2. The opening few minutes of an interview are essential, from a participants' point of view. Tell me who you are, what are you hoping to get out of this, what you need from me. The best interviews were ones that started with "so, the point of this is..." Give some context! 3/8
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My first snazzy professional headshot! 📸 (curtesy of @ceres_jacobs )
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Today is my first day of my PhD at Uni of Leeds. It’s finally happening. I am so (very nearly) ready. Any first day words of wisdom, Twittersphere?! #PhDchat
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Dr Madeleine Pownall
3 years
News! SO excited to be starting a Leeds Institute for Teaching Excellence @leedsteaching Fellowship for the next two years with @HarrisR_Psy & @diervilla on "Global Citizenship in the University Curriculum". This work will involve research, new resources & sharing best practice🥳
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My 22/23 academic year resolution is to think more creatively about pedagogical research, to avoid endless student surveys. Super excited to see how this postcard/time capsule project plays out in induction week 🌈📝📮
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4 years
Today was a great post day 🌻 #AcademicChatter
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3 years
Yay! Our paper "Navigating Open Science as Early Career Feminist Researchers" is now *in press* at Psychology of Women Quarterly 🍾✨ + the dream team: @CatherineTalb @AnnaHenschel @AleLautarescu @KellyElizaLloyd @kohinoordarda @KarenTang_ @Parise_CM @jacasiegel @helenahhartmann
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I have until the end of the week to finish a thesis chapter so, naturally, I'm mopping all the floors of my flat
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The loveliest possible thing to receive on a Monday morning 🥰
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Now out! Students viewed authentic assessments (e.g., policy briefs, case studies) to be exciting and novel but also unfamiliar and anxiety-provoking. So there is a trade off between creativity in assessment and psychological safety
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Dr Madeleine Pownall
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Buzzing that our paper "Balancing pedagogical innovation with psychological safety? Student perceptions of authentic assessment" is now in press at Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education! with Steph Wake, @diervilla , and @HarrisR_Psy 📚💻📑
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If you are a human researching other humans, you will never be objective. Thanks for coming to my TEDTalk
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