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Graduation
Last week I spent a glorious morning in Manchester with my husband, children and parents attending my graduation. It was a lovely ceremony to share with my family, so I thought I’d share a photo of me in my silly hat (cue a few games of frisbee) and posh robes (“Mummy, you look like Hermione…
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Thoughts on ‘Transitioning out of academia’
Today has been an unusual day: I went to help out the PTFA of my children’s primary school with the refreshments for the Key Stage 1 sports day. (Bear with me – I promise this post really is work-related). It proved to be an interesting social experience, because although these were people I meet regularly…
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Musical Memories
There’s something strange about commuting to Manchester. I don’t do it often anymore, but on Wednesday I tootled in to visit the Whitworth Art Gallery with Bolton Historical Association, and the trip down the M6, M61 and A580 brings with it a lot of memories. Foremost among them is the recollection of driving down one…
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What’s it like to be ‘finished’?
This post on the Thesis Whisperer’s blog managed to articulate much better than me almost exactly what I was trying to say in my last-but-one post. ‘Finished’ is a very strange place to be, especially when so many of us find it difficult to move into another role immediately upon completion. The Thesis Whisperer This…
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An Exchange Between Pooh and Piglet
Very perceptive, is Winnie the Pooh, especially when it comes to the link between news and song: “Did I really do all that?” he said at last. “Well,” said Pooh, “in poetry – in a piece of poetry – well you did it, Piglet, because the poetry says you did. And that’s how people know.”…
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Academically Homeless
Yesterday I logged in to my Manchester University library account and discovered that I can no longer renew my books. This came as a bit of a surprise. There’s nothing urgent, you understand, it just brought home to me the fact that, slowly and surely, I’m being set adrift in the big, wide world again. …
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Time slip
Having spent the first few days this week putting together junior fellowship and bursary applications, for the last couple of days I’ve been working on John Roberts. Mostly, this has involved a major crisis of confidence and a long time spent re-acquainting myself with the sources that I was using. First I panicked that I…
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How to write a simple research methods section
Originally posted on The Research Whisperer: Photo by Mel Hattie | unsplash.com Yesterday I read a research application that contained no research methods at all. Well, that’s not exactly true. In an eight-page project description, there were exactly three sentences that described the methods. Let’s say it went something like this: There was to be…
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