This week I was approached by colleagues from Queen's University Belfast to give an interview on my experience of living with the neurological condition, synaesthesia. I'm really grateful to the Social Media Team at QUB for giving me the chance to share my story and raise awareness about this incredible condition. You can read the short form version on QUB social media accounts. I've included a longer version below. Hope you enjoy!
Earlier this year I was awarded a PhD in Cultural History from the University of Portsmouth. My PhD research examined middle-class guilt as a motivation for the creation, and promotion of monster stereotypes for socially outcast 'others' in Britain during the nineteenth century. I've created an abridged version here, but if you'd like to read the full thesis, get in touch.
This post was originally published on the Supernatural Cities website. Held over 27th & 28th April 2019, the Fabled Coast conference was a multi-centre event celebrating “the unfathomable deep” and its rich, global history of myths and legends. Organised by the Sussex Centre for Fairy Tales, Fantasy, and Speculative Fiction at the University of Chichester, the first day of …
Here's story no. 39 from my Tales of Fiction blog. I started writing this in January after having a strange dream which was partly a memory from a recent holiday, and partly a weird mixture of things I've been researching lately. I've tried to coalesce these ideas here in a kind of magic realist monster …
Talk to us about your band, No Oil Paintings. No Oil Paintings are a 4 piece progressive folk band from Belfast. We formed in 2013 originally as a 4 piece, that then took on a multitude of different line ups until finally settling in 2015 as we are now. We try to create a new …
I've been really lucky in terms of radio play for my new EP, #MoonHeartEP. Ronnie Carnwath has featured both Boneshaker and Moon Hearted Bird on his show "Cobwebs and Strange" for Radio Warwickshire. Eve Blair of The Late Show on BBC Radio Ulster featured Malcolm on her soothing show. Today I was interviewed by Liz …
Here's story number 38 on my Tales of Fiction blog. I wrote a slightly shorter version of this for T'articulation's first fanzine back in the Spring. Hope you enjoy! ********************************************************************************* The Faurians clustered around me in the near total darkness, their damp fur bristling with voices. I was their translator. They spoke only in movement, …
There's a new short story on my fiction blog! I wrote this piece for an event called 'Honouring Your Ancestors' hosted by the Portsmouth T'articulation group during this year's Darkfest. The story has a science fiction feel, to coincide with the launch of my latest 5 track EP, Moon Heart, which is available now from Spotify, …
I wrote this article for the Port Towns research group based at the University of Portsmouth. They have a really fascinating archive of articles and information on maritime culture & history. You can follow PTUC on Twitter, and Facebook. Maritime Gibbet Lore in Nineteenth-Century Popular Culture The practice of gibbeting, also known more specifically …
I’m a synaesthete; a neurological condition described by the University of Sussex as: “A joining together of sensations that are normally experienced separately. ” I started my Everyday Synaesthesia blog so that non-synaesthetes might be able to grasp what it’s like living with the condition on a day to day basis, from a personal perspective. My ability …
Dr Eilís Phillips / Creative Consultant 
You must be logged in to post a comment.