Fighting the Summer Blues, 2016 Edition
Long-term readers will be aware that I am not good at summer.
Graduate earnings aren’t a valid measure of anything
Today, I will mostly be ranting about the use of graduate earnings to evaluate how good a course/university is.
Seven Misconceptions about People with PhDs
It seems that people have a lot of pre-existing ideas about what someone with a PhD is, does, and wants, when we’re actually a pretty diverse lot.
Work To Live, or Live To Work?
I’m almost at the end of week five of jobsearching.
A Love Letter to Twitter
Academic Twitter is abuzz about an article from The Guardian that suggests 'serious academics' don't do social media.
Fear of being judged
Ever since I decided I probably wasn’t going to stay in academia, I’ve been aware that some people will think I’ve ‘failed’ or 'wasted my talents'
Two weeks on: alright for now
It’s two weeks today since I submitted my thesis.
Thesis Submitted.
I submitted my thesis this morning.
One week to go: familiarity breeds contempt
Well, submission day seems very close now. I may actually have to start considering which pub(s) to go to that evening.
‘Horrible Histories‘ Conference, King‘s College London, 16th-18th June 2016
As it was a three-day conference, I saw TONS of papers, so as ever, I’m going to talk about a few that I could particularly relate to my own work, and that doesn’t mean that the other ones I saw weren’t awesome too.