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*COLLECTIONS, PERFORMANCES, ARTICLES, EXHIBITIONS... in no particular order!
-(Aug 28th - Nov 8th 2009), 'Tissue' - image, None of the above - exhibition, Minnesota Center for Book Arts
-(2008) Mouthings (a book of conversations) published by "Intercapillary Editions". Available to download free (from Intercapillary Space) or to purchase in hardback (Lulu) NEW EDITION PENDING - HOPEFULLY CHRISTMAS 2009
- (2008) Two poems in the poetryetc anthology. Avalaible from the Masthead website - http://www.masthead.net.au/
- (2007) Mechanical Expressions (individual poetry collection) Writers Forum, Surrey, ISBN 987-1-84254-106-7
http://www.myspace.com/writersforum
- (2006) Fat Man Dancing (individual poetry collection), Poetry Monthly Press, Nottingham, ISBN 1-905126-52-2
www.poetrymonthly.com
- (Spring 2007) ‘Ethical Reviewing’, The Journal, Issue #18, ISSN 1466-5220 - article
- (April 2006) Poetry Monthly (tenth anniversary edition), Issue 121, ISSN 1368-7913 – Editorial
- Performing with Lawrence Upton at the Writers Forum (8th May 2010) 'Ruined walls a memento', 'staring out through the window', 'Dialogue at the gate', 'photographed everything clearly', 'the material itself' (multi-voice poems by Lawrence Upton) and solo performance of 'Medium' from 'Chyme'.
- Performing 'Loop: failure of' with Lawrence Upton (multi-voice poem by Lawrence Upton) and solo performance of 'Rendering' at the Writers Forum (17th April 2010)
Performing 'Mantling' from 'Chyme' at the Writers Forum (20th February 2010)
- Performing 'Chyme' at the Writers Forum (30th January 2010)
- Performing short story 'Aspirations' at the Writers Forum (28th November 2009)
- Performing with Lawrence Upton at the Great Hall, Goldsmiths University, London (14th November 2009) 'Overheard Conversation' (multi-voice poem by Lawrence Upton)
- Performing with Lawrence Upton at the Writers Forum (27th June 2009) 'Simultaneity' (multi-voice poem by Lawrence Upton) and solo performance of 'Sticky Fingers' (short story)
- Performing with Lawrence Upton at the Writers Forum (31st January 2009) 'Portrait - like of steel', 'Song - darker', 'Aphorism'
- Performing with Lawrence Upton at the Writers Forum (7th June 2008) 'The Author and its inscription' and 'Name giving' (multi-voice poems by Lawrence Upton)
- Performing with Lawrence Upton at the Writers Forum (Feb 2nd 2008) 'A ghost or really dead' (multi-voice poem by Lawrence Upton)
- Reading/performing at the Bristol Poetry Festival (Sept 12th 2007), The Lansdown Hotel
- Reading/performing for Leicester Poetry Society (June 8th 2007), Adult Education Centre, Wellington Street, Leicester
- Reading/performing of 'Neuroticism' at Images of Women by Women, Peepul Centre, Leicester (March 10th 2007)
- Reading/performing of original poetry (July 22nd 2006) on 39 Dover Street - Poetry Radio (15 minute performance), http://www.nexus.org/mp3 or 5775 Khz shortwave
- Regular reading/performing of original poetry at the Barlow Theatre, Langley, Birmingham (Poetry Wednesbury), (2006 - )
- Reading/performing of original poetry at first Poetry Cornwall festival (30th Sept 2005 - 2nd Oct 2005)
- (Sept 2006) ‘Gwendoline’ (poem), Inspired Words (Anthology), Poetry Now, PN0592A0177
- (2006) ‘Sacred Space’ (poem), Free-Falling – A collection of free verse from Poetry Now, Poetry Now, PN0579A0434
- (2006) 'Eating Outside' (poem) To Paint a Picture (anthology), Poetry Now PN0602A0002
- (2006) ‘And You Still Love Me’ (poem), The World Is Your, A collection of general poetry from Poetry Now, Poetry Now, PN0585A0099
- (2006) ‘Neuroticism’ (poem), My Mother Threw Knives: poems about women’s lives (Anthology), Second Light Publications, ISBN 0-9546934-1-8
- (2006) ‘Englishwoman Abroad’ ‘Cancer’ ‘Rose’ ‘The nails which held her’ (poem), Soundswrite Anthology, ISBN 0-9550786-2-8
- (2005) ‘Scantily-Clad Moment’ (poem), Love’s Many Pathways (Anthology), Anchor Books, ISBN 1844183971
- (2005) ‘Love Is’ (poem), Mixed Emotions, (Poetry Anthology), Poetry Now, ISBN 1846020050
- (2005) ‘My Beautiful Children’ (poem), Materials of the Mind (Anthology), Poetry Now, ISBN 1846020069
*POEMS/SHORT STORIES/IMAGES HAVE APPEARED IN THE FOLLOWING PLACES
- http://www.footballpoets.org
- Inclement
- Headstorms: Short Fiction Magazine
- Sunflowers: Poetry and Graphics monthly webzine, http://poetry-monthly.co.uk [no longer running]
- Anchor Books
- http://www.poetrymonthly.com
- Poetry Now
- Delivered
- Dogma Publications
- Various Artists e-zine
- Roundyhouse
- The Seventh Quarry
- http://www.greatworks.org.uk
- Poetry Cornwall
- Second Light Publications
- Soundswrite Anthology (www.soundswrite-poetry.co.uk)
- inbetweenhangovers
- http://intercapillaryspace.blogspot.com/
- http://www.dusie.org/
- Poetryetc Anthology (http://masthead.net.au/)
- Veer Off (Veer Publications)
*TEACHING EXPERIENCE
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- Course Tutor - Change and Project Management (30-credit, level 1 certificate - part of Coventry University's Continuing Professional Development initiative)
- Course Tutor - including all aspects of initiation, development and negotiation with customers, (level 2) Diploma in Management (in collaboration with the Chartered Management Institute)
- Module Leader, Managing Change (undergrad year 3)
- Module Leader, Career Development (undergrad year 2)
- Module Leader, Studying Organisations (undergrad year 2)
- Seminar Leader, Information Skills and Personal Development (undergrad year 1)
- Supervising Honours and MBA projects
- Module Leader, Fundamentals of Business Organisation (undergrad year 0)
- Year tutor, BA Business Enterprise (undergrad year 1)
- Module Leader, Business Environment (undergrad year 1)
- Module Leader, Information Skills and Personal Development (undergrad year 1)
- Module Leader, Business Enterprise Skills 1 (undergrad year 1)
- Module Leader, Organisations, Competition and Environment (undergrad year 1)
- Module Leader, Business Management (undergrad year 2)
- Supervising work-based placements
- Module Leader, The Organisation in its Environment (postgrad)
- MA Work-based Learning, Action Learning Set Facilitator (postgrad work-based)
- Module Leader, Personal Effectiveness for the Communication Industry, web-based distance learning module (postgrad work-based)
- Visiting Lecturer European Business Module, Fachhochschule, Aachen, Germany, 1999-2000 and 2000-2001
- Widening Participation Project, Hereward FE College, Coventry, June 2001
- Centre for Peace and Reconciliation, Coventry, ‘Managing Change in Organisations’ (Seminar for MA Peace and Reconciliation), May 2005
- Mentor, PgCert in Higher Education Professional Practice, 2006 to date
*APPLIED RESEARCH
- Business and Community Engagement Programme (BCE), Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), 2008-2009
*ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS/AWARDS/CONFERENCE CONTRIBUTIONS
- Several in-house publications (1994-99) clarifying University Regulations including the 'Modular Handbook' initially issued to all Coventry University Students (now available on University intranet) and the ‘Administrators Handbook’ initially issued to all senior Administrative staff (now available on University intrantet).
- Workshop participant, Social Construction and Relational Practices, International Conference sponsored by the University of New Hampshire and the Taos Institute, 16-19 September 1999, New Hampshire, USA.
- Workshop participant, It’s a Relational World Conference, 7-9 March 2001, University of Warwick.
- Harvey, B. and Shadforth, T. (2001) ‘Managing boundaries in organisations? Managing the boundaries between identities’, EGOS 17th Colloquium, 4-7 July, Lyon, France.
- Shadforth, T. and Harvey, B. (2004) ‘Competing Paradigms of Supervising Research: Choices and Challenges in Higher Education’, ECRM 4th Conference, 29-30 April, Reading, England. Published in conference proceedings.
- Shadforth, T. and Harvey, B. (2004) ‘The Undergraduate Dissertation: Subject-centred or student-centred?’ Elate Conference, 24th June, Coventry, England.
- Session Chair, Sharing HR Practice 2005, Conference sponsored by CIPD, 14th April 2005, Coventry University
- Bass, T. (2005), ‘Managing change through language: a creative and emotional approach’, Workshop session aimed at sharing teaching practice, Higher Education Academy 1st conference, Edinburgh, 29th June- 1st July
- Bass, T. (2008) 'A postmodern pedagogy? And how it might be useful in elevating debates around Corporate Social Responsibility', Internal Research Conference, Coventry University, 3rd June
- Bass, T. (2008) International Award for Excellence in the area of knowledge, culture and change in organisations
- Bass, T. (5-8 August 2008), Plenary, 8th International Conference on Knowledge, Culture and Change in Organisations, Cambridge University
- Bass, T. (8-9 September 2008), 'A Social Constructionist Pedagogy and how it might be useful in elevating debate on Corporate Social Responsibility amongst undergraduate business students', Poster Presentation, iPED International Conference, Coventry University
- Bass, T. (14th-16th Jan 2010), Plenary, 'Becoming Systemic: Knowing and Acting from Within' for Creating Communities: Dreaming and Envisioning Culture and Practice, Vasteras Sweden
*ARTICLES IN PERIODICALS
- Shadforth, T. and Harvey, B. (Oct 2004) ‘The Undergraduate Dissertation: Subject-centred or student-centred?’ Electronic Journal for Business Research Methods, Vol 2 Issue 2 (pp145-152), ISSN 1477-7029, http://www.ejbrm.com
-Bass, T. (2007), ‘Challenging taken-for-granteds: Teaching students to manage change’, International Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Change Management, Vol 7 Issue 7 (pp41-47) ISSN 1447-9524 http://ijm.cgpublisher.com/
*CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
- Bass, T. (April 2006) Two on-line chapters for Pearson Education (April 2006) Online Study Guides in ‘Leadership’ and ‘Problem Solving’. These chapters are offered as stand-alone resources or as part of Payne, E. and Whittaker, L. (2006) Developing Essential Study Skills and as part of Cameron, S. (2005) The Business Students’ Handbook
*REFEREEING/EDITING/REVIEWING/EXAMINING
-(2002) Academy of Management Conference, Denver, Colorado,
-(2007) International Journal on Knowledge, Culture and Change in Organisations
-(2007) Associate Editor, International Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Change Management, Vol 7 Issue 7, ISSN 1477-7029
- (2008-) Junior Reviewer, Journal of General Management
- (2009) Chapter – Academic Futures: Inquiries into Higher Education and Pedagogy, 2009, Cambridge Scholars
- (2009-) External Examiner (KCC/University of Bedford), MSc in Systemic Leadership
- (2009) Various book proposals and pre-publication texts for Thomson and Pearson
*CURRENT RESEARCH
-Doctoral studies commenced Jan 2008 (University of Leicester. I am interested in how Corporate Social Responsibility is taught/explored (or not!) at Undergraduate level.
*AND
-I am a Fellow of The Higher Education Academy

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Tobermory, Ripley and David Soul (see 'Heroes'). Probably in that order of preference too.

My Blog

pizza

[one of Owen's schoolfriends has come for tea]Tina:  'J', we are planning to have pizza for tea, is that ok with you?  Cheese and tomato?J:  [in a high-pitched monotone]  Pizza is my favourite, Tina. ...
Posted by on Tue, 25 May 2010 01:49:00 GMT

Pants

Mum:  So how was school today?  What did you do?Leon:  P.E. was great!Owen:  Yeah.  Everyone laughed at 'L' because he had no pants.Mum:  Poor boy.  You shouldn't have laughed at him.  He forgot his p...
Posted by on Tue, 18 May 2010 15:09:00 GMT

Together

[Kids Klub, waiting whilst Leon and Owen gather their things]Small girl: [pushing pushchair with doll]  Let's go for a walk.Small boy: [pushing another pushchair with a different doll]  Ok [starts to ...
Posted by on Tue, 18 May 2010 14:58:00 GMT

Just do it!

[halfway to school]Leon: [abruptly stops]  Just do it!Mum:  What?Leon: [head hanging, resigned]  The kissing thing.Just get it over with now, already.  Go on.  
Posted by on Tue, 18 May 2010 14:52:00 GMT

Paper bag

[Owen has had a poem published. the book arrived yesterday along with a badge which reads 'I am a published poet'] Owen:  What are you doing?Mum:  I'm going to put the book on one of the bookshelves. ...
Posted by on Thu, 13 May 2010 11:11:00 GMT

A little problem

Leon:  Oh.  My.  God!  [running from his bedroom] Mummy has got a farting problem.  And I know that it's her because it smells just like mine but with a little bit of a different scent.Owen: [concerne...
Posted by on Thu, 13 May 2010 10:58:00 GMT

The final Frontier

Owen:  Mummy, some of the Year 4's have gone away this week without their mums and dads. Mum:  Or their blankets.  Owen:  Oy!Mum:  I know.Owen:  How?Mum:  Because your Head Teacher told me at the Scho...
Posted by on Fri, 07 May 2010 12:16:00 GMT

international relations

Mum: [mildly exasperated]  ...and what are you doing now?Leon:  [cheerfully] I am sticking my little finger at you.  It must be rude in somebody's country.  Maybe in China...
Posted by on Fri, 07 May 2010 11:49:00 GMT

humming

Leon:  ...and then at break-time me and 'L' had such a good time.  We took all the jumpers out of the lost property box and we sniffed them all to see if we could work out who they belonged to.  [beam...
Posted by on Fri, 07 May 2010 11:40:00 GMT

The ef word

Leon:  Mummy, all girls do is write lists of who they fancy.Mum:  [startled] Do they?Leon:  Yes, and I think I know who fancies me.Mum:  Who?Leon:  [mock shocked]  I'm not giving up that kind of infor...
Posted by on Fri, 30 Apr 2010 02:02:00 GMT