My interest in transnationalism and teaching in the international setting, led to a fully funded course on Teaching English in multilingual classrooms (TECM) with Lexis Education. This additional professional development was vital in pursuing personal research and current work Decolonising the curriculum involves the inclusion of diverse perspectives, voices, and historically excluded and marginalised histories and inserting them into the mainstream narrative. In my ITT year teaching German, French and Spanish, I realised a need for more diverse stories and cultures. I made it a primary target to explore more decolonised materials, the challenges that came with it, and potential solutions for achieving this goal.

National government is committed to reaching net zero carbon emissions by 2050 and the Mayor of London by 2030. But achieving this will mean radical action on retrofitting London's buildings and in particular homes with effective insulation and low-carbon energy systems. National and London government have stepped up retrofitting activity and funding over the last few years, and through the Retrofit London Steering Group, all layers of London and national government are working closely together. Nevertheless, retrofitting remains a major challenge for the capital, which will not meet its net zero 2030 target or even the national 2050 target, without a step-change in the pace of retrofitting. At the same time, retrofitting at the pace and scale required represents an opportunity for London and other regions, helping lower energy costs and generating new jobs and business opportunities. We propose a partnership (London Research and Policy Partnership) to bring academic researchers, policymakers, businesses and community and voluntary sector experts together and undertake research and ideas generation that could help accelerate the retrofitting of London's housing and other buildings. We are particularly interested in how policymakers can build on existing activity and use public sector funds and other powers to unlock demand for and supply of market retrofitting services. We will approach this challenge from a 'just transition' perspective: we want to ensure that reaching net zero and retrofitting buildings is done in a way which helps 'level-up' London, lowers living costs for the poorest households and provides training and job opportunities for all Londoners, and especially those from disadvantaged backgrounds under-represented in the retrofitting sector. We will map and analyse existing retrofitting policy, funding and on-ground activity in London and assess its strengths and weaknesses and the opportunities of, and threats to, significantly escalating retrofitting. We will hold an initial workshop to identify three particularly significant challenges that are preventing the just transition to zero carbon homes and other buildings in London and then hold three additional workshops each focused on better understanding and developing solutions to these challenges. These workshops will bring together a wide range of relevant expertise, including representatives of community and voluntary sector groups. We will run them on World Café principles - an approach designed to promote open and equitable approach to group discussions. We will draw on our mapping, analysis and ideas generation to develop a theory of how retrofit could reach critical mass in London. We will develop a robust and equitable approach to stakeholder and public engagement to guide future partnership activity and identify further research and analysis, quantitative and qualitative, that could help the drive to reach critical mass in retrofitting. We will work with researchers at the School of Advanced Study to explore and identify the role that arts and humanities disciplines could play in this research. We will also set out how we will build on this collaboration to develop a broader equitable and sustainable London research, innovation and policy partnership, able to work collaboratively with other regional and national partnerships and respond to changing policy priorities. Finally, we will evaluate this work, to learn lessons for future research policy partnerships. This project will be led by the London Research and Policy Partnership (LRaPP). LRaPP was launched in July 2021 to promote joint working between policymakers and university researchers in addressing London's critical policy challenges. Lead partners include the University of London, the Greater London Authority, London Councils, University College London, and Capabilities in Academic Policy Engagement.

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The work of women as medical practitioners - particularly of 'domestic' medicine inside the home - in early modern England has been conventionally underestimated. This is especially the case in Tudor and Stuart England, a 150-year period in which the practice of medicine formalised and transformed from folk medicine into science. Even after the first major hospital in Britain opened during the early Enlightenment in the 1720s, medicine was routinely performed by non-professional (male) medical practitioners and women provided casual medical care in domestic settings. Nuns ran conventual infirmaries and nursing orders, mothers wet-nursed, and women worked as midwives. Women were consumers, collectors, authors, and sharers of printed, manuscript, and oral medical knowledge. This PhD project aims to assess evidence of their knowledge networks, based on the rare books and archives of the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) and supported by Institute of English Studies (IES), School of Advanced Study, University of London, the UK's national centre for humanities research and a leading centre for book history. Significant numbers of pre-Enlightenment medical documents in the RCP's collections were owned, used, or written by women. As the RCP was founded in 1518 to professionalise the practice of medicine in England, making it the oldest medical college in Britain, its collections document what information was available to the only legally sanctioned body of physicians in England. Women were barred from membership until 1909, but its members had relied on women's medical knowledge for centuries. For example, RCP archives hold around 50 medical receipt books, most of which were likely compiled by women. The RCP library holds nearly 7,000 pre-1700 printed books, of which many bear women's names. A full survey would provide a rich datasource for considering women's ownership of medical knowledge and contribute to the history of science and medicine, the history of the book, and the history of art and illustration. This PhD project will build on research into the history of women's medical work by exploring evidence of women's medical knowledge in the holdings of the RCP, supported by the IES' expertise in book history. Through collections-based research, it will identify and assess provenance evidence of women's access to or ownership of medical books and manuscripts to map women's access to this knowledge, including for home cures. Concurrently, it will examine women as authors of medical texts and recipes, based on RCP holdings. This study will then compare medical information in the manuscripts to that in the printed texts, revealing the knowledge exchange between women who practiced medicine and the professional or licensed physicians who used the texts they wrote. This will allow the analysis of the reception history of women's medical knowledge in early modern/pre-Enlightenment England. Finally, it will assess the RCP's printed and manuscript corpora for evidence of women as medical practitioners. It is supervised by Dr Elizabeth Savage, Lecturer in Book History and Communications, IES, and Professor Clare Lees, Director of the IES, with support from Katie Birkwood, Rare Books and Special Collections Librarian, RCP.

Motivation Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) represents the dynamic tapestry of human civilization, encapsulating our collective traditions and cultures. As highlighted by the 2003 UNESCO Convention on the Safeguarding of the ICH, preserving these diverse cultural manifestations is crucial. In the digital era, technological advancements such as transmedia, VR, AR, and 3D modeling allowed diverse forms of information to be digitally transformed and presented in increasingly vivid and comprehensive digital formats (Alivizatou-Baeakou, 2017; Rossau et al., 2019). While these innovations offer unique opportunities to enhance the representation of ICH, they also pose challenges in representing its dynamic, multimodal nature. Furthermore, current digitalisation methods tend to be technocentric and often overlook the cultural contexts and holistic nature of ICH, potentially leading to a loss of its evolving, living character (Carboni & de Luca, 2016). Addressing these challenges necessitates interdisciplinary solutions. There is increasing recognition of the need for a comprehensive digitalisation theory that integrates semiotics with new media technologies (Nantke, 2017), aiming to enrich the digital representation of ICH (Berlanga-Fernández, 2022). As Olteanu & Ciula(2022) argue, "digitalisation-when dealing with conversion across media-are forms of intermedial translation, hence of relevance to translation studies that found its theoretical grounding in semiotics". Building upon this, this research aims to contribute to bridging these gaps by developing a theoretical and practical framework based on multimodal translation theory. This framework, tailored for cross-contextual applications, will bridge traditional understandings with the digital realm. It will focus on digitally preserving and representing the intangible attributes, living nature, and multimodal characteristics of ICH. Aim and Objectives: The overarching research aim of this project is to craft a viable digitalisation pathway for the digital preservation and representation of multimodal ICH content that addresses both challenges and opportunities. The focus is on ensuring long-term development while respecting diverse and multivocal cultural contexts. The objectives are as follows: 1: Apply interdisciplinary multimodal analysis to decode the diverse characteristics of ICH, reflecting its multifaceted nature and significance in socio-cultural contexts. 2: Explore translation strategies for transferring ICH from traditional to digital formats, ensuring the preservation of its intrinsic meaning across different modalities and contexts. 3: Develop a flexible theoretically informed and practically-oriented framework for multimodal translation of ICH, enhancing its digital access and relevance in a rapidly evolving digital world. Contribution: This research introduces multimodal translation from an interdisciplinary viewpoint and aims to provide a theoretically-informed and practically-oriented framework for effectively preserving ICH in today's digital landscape. Academically, it forges a link between systemic functional linguistics and design theory, developing an innovative digital translation system that offers a richer and more culturally attuned representation of ICH. On the application level, the research enhances preservation and dissemination processes, employing advanced digital techniques for efficient data management and broader accessibility. This approach enriches ICH propagation, supports its systematic inheritance, and promotes cultural exchange through a shift towards more dynamic ICH engagement.