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  • Emotional responses to music

    It’s probably a couple of years since I last undertook an online course with FutureLearn, but a few weeks ago I signed up for a short course from Griffith University called Music Psychology: Why Does “Bohemian Rhapsody” Feel so Good? It was a simple introduction to some of the basic principles of music psychology, and…

  • Spain

    Although there are certain aspects of my job that I am less than happy about, I have to admit that it has brought me opportunities that even a few years ago I would have found difficult to imagine. Many of these revolve around the chance to travel to places I would otherwise not have seen,…

  • From Inside Higher Ed: Study finds female professors experience more work demands

    Study finds female professors experience more work demands and special favor requests, particularly from academically “entitled” students. — Read on http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2018/01/10/study-finds-female-professors-experience-more-work-demands-and-special-favor

  • XI CIHCE – Scripta in Itinere

    I was privileged to be invited to the XI Congreso Internacional de Historia de la Cultura Escrita, held this June in Alcalá de Henares, which will for me be forever remembered as the city of storks – these enormous birds nest atop many of the old buildings around the Calle de Colegios, clacking their beaks…

  • It’s like asking how you are…

    …no-one really wants to know the true answer. At least that’s what my fiend said when I told him a few months ago that I’d decided to be honest about my precarity. Well, maybe people don’t, but maybe we should tell them more often. One of the difficult situations that I face when attending conferences…