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• July 13, 2013

  Summer Panel Meeting

  This week I had my fourth panel meeting, which was a very interesting experience.  I wouldn’t exactly say I enjoyed it, but it was certainly stimulating and it wasn’t quite so scary as previous ones had been.  I’d sent in a chapter on putting ballads back together with their music, a short piece of writing…
• May 16, 2013

  University of Manchester Vice Chancellor on Supervising PhDs (From My Manchester online)

  Issue 29, 2012 (The University of Manchester).    My Manchester News  > Issue 29, 2012 Why I love PhD students, by Professor Dame Nancy Rothwell Published on 15 May 13 I was asked the other day if I had any regrets about taking up the position of President and Vice-Chancellor. The answer was: “Remarkably few.” But…
• May 11, 2013

  The big news of the day is that I’ve had my first conference paper accepted for Histfest at Lancaster University.  This will be my first conference paper and as far as I’m concerned it has several advantages as a first conference: it’s just up the road, so I’m nearby and I’m not going to get…
• March 29, 2013

  Writing Like Those I Admire, part 2

  A couple of weeks ago I reblogged a post from Pat Thomson “This post began in exactly this way, with a five am wondering about what my favorite academic books would say about – and to – me. As I started to go through the books I’d put on a very, very short list I…
• March 22, 2013

  Social Networking Since 1600

  Social Networking Since 1600. One of the organisers is my fellow picnic-er Katherine Fennelly, and I do hope to be there although it’s outside my research time-frame, unfortunately.
• March 19, 2013

  Really interesting… What a lucky girl I am… The Thesis Whisperer This post is by Cassily Charles from Charles Sturt University – a fellow thesis whisperer. Cassily is the Academic Writing Coordinator for Higher Degree by Research students in the CSU Academic Support Unit (ccharles@csu.edu.au). In this post, Cassily discusses misunderstandings about personal writing processes,…
• March 18, 2013

  Originally posted on patter: That half conscious state between sleeping and waking seems to be the time that I begin to compose a blog post. I often wake up relatively early with a half formed idea. I then work on it idly, gradually waking up, before finally getting up and getting it down. This post…
• January 12, 2013

  Starry, starry night

  You may by now have noticed that I like my garden birds.  I have just been standing out in the garden, which backs on to a playing field and beyond that, the countryside, admiring all the stars and appreciating the song of the male tawny owl that lives nearby. I’ve never seen it, but I’ve…
• January 11, 2013

  Writing the Fox

  I have been reading ‘the Hunting and Finding out of the Romish Fox’ by William Turner. If I’m honest, it’s something I’ve been putting off because of the density of the text, but it’s actually turned out to be nothing like I expected. Obviously it’s heavily based on metaphor, but it’s rhetorical style is pretty…
• January 5, 2013

  Welcome to 2013

  And so a new year begins. I have spent a lot of it so far cataloguing ballads, to the extent that my analysis spreadsheet is now so enormous that I am probably going to have to take it to the university print services department to get it printed out – I guess it will be…