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Virtual Research Week
18 September 07 09:42 AM

The PSA Research Careers Week (held 10-13 Sept) was a cornucopia of information for research students at any stage in their degree. From designing your thesis, to managing supervision and the mid-thesis doldrums, to examinations and what distinguishes Read More...

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Liveblogging Research Careers Week
10 September 07 09:11 AM

I'm currently sitting in the foyer of the Tattersall Lecture Theatre, waiting for the PSA Research Careers Week to begin. Friday was a little bit crazy with all the last-minute preparation, but here we are now ready to go. The first session - right now, Read More...

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Be My Guest
27 August 07 09:44 AM

I'm giving a lecture in an English unit later today: I've taught in this unit in the past, though this time I'm just doing the one guest lecture. I think that I'm coming down with the flu that is going around (I'll blame Sanna, despite the fact my sister Read More...

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The Wait is Over!
04 July 07 04:25 PM

I blogged a while ago about things I was waiting to hear back on: the news is that my crazy week of application writing paid off! This week I've begun a six-month position as Graduate Education Officer here at UWA and I've also recieved a Whitfield Fellowship Read More...

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As long as a piece of string...
13 June 07 11:59 AM

After Wayne's post on waiting for responses , I thought I'd share my current state of waiting with the blogosphere. At the moment I am waiting on: any news about the edited collection I've had a chapter accepted for to find out when the one-off editorial Read More...

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Heading Towards the Light...
29 May 07 12:43 PM

I've been heading towards the light (ie, completing various tasks that having been taking over my life) for the last few weeks - hence my virtual silence and in-person whining. I like the 'light' metaphor, not only because it insinuates the semi-comatose Read More...

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Communities of Research
15 May 07 10:54 AM

I'm always fascinated by acknowledgement sections, in books and in theses, as a textual trace of the narratives and experiences underlying the formal, often disembodied, academic writing following that introduction. Seeing the acknowledgements section Read More...

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