Speakers talk about subjects they are passionate or knowledgeable about (contact jenny.townend@northampton.ac.uk if you’d like to be a future speaker).
Walk this way: wearing eighteenth century shoes
Professor of History, Matthew McCormack, talks about walking in someone else’s shoes…
Thursday 16th May 2024, 12.30 to 1.30pm, Tpod C, Learning Hub.
What were shoes like to wear in the eighteenth century?
Shoes in this period were very different to the ones we wear today. We can tell this from surviving examples in museum collections, but in order to find out what a shoe is really like to wear you have to actually wear it, which is not possible with fragile and valuable historic artefacts.
As part of my project on “Shoes and the Georgian Man” I therefore commissioned a pair of replica late-eighteenth-century men’s shoes and wore them for an extended period, documenting the experience through autoethnographic writing and photography. This session will share my findings and will be an opportunity to get some hands-on (and maybe feet-on) experience of Georgian objects.
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The Neurodivergent Dad Survival Guide
Student Support Officer, Callum Green, shares his experience...
Wednesday 5th June 2024, 12.30 to 1.30pm, Tpod C, Learning Hub.
There are countless resources available on how to raise your kids. Books, essays, TV shows, and podcasts that offer advice on topics from feeding to encouraging healthy sleep habits, helping children navigate difficult emotions etc. In recent years, there has even been an increase in content specifically aimed at fathers, with more resources and information becoming readily available. But the one thing I struggle to find is parenting advice for neurodivergent people by neurodivergent people. As someone with AuDHD (Autism and ADHD), this would have been a lifesaver as a parent of two kids under 5. “The Neurodivergent Dad Survival Guide” is my attempt to fill that gap in the market.
PLEASE BE AWARE; this is not a how-to guide for raising kids as a neurodivergent person.
I am not a professional.
Not even close.
I am just a dad whose brain is wired a bit differently.
Instead, I want to share some lived experiences and what I’ve taken from them as a parent with AuDHD. I also hope to challenge and demystify some perceptions of what it is to be neurodivergent and what we are capable of. If that ends up helping someone like me, or any parent, to feel they are a little less alone – then that’s a worthwhile bonus.