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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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Ballads Across Borders
Over the last few months I have been privileged to give some lectures for Sovereign Education, who provide study days for A-level students. The two most recent lectures were on the subject of ‘the King’s Great Matter’. Sadly, there were no ballads involved, but at least I got to talk about Henry VIII, Catherine of…
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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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Mothers
Long time readers of my blog will know that I’m quite interested in art, but I know very little about it. I came across this on twitter and some of these images are really beautiful. But it is Mothering Sunday, not mother’s day. http://www.bridgemanimages.com/en-GB/blog/bridgeman/post/4298/a-celebration-of-motherhood-in-art
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I passed!
It’s been a long and winding road to get here, but finally, I had my viva this afternoon and I passed. It was a thoroughly interesting couple of hours and it’s given me plenty to think about, which is great and exactly what I had hoped for.
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Final Countdown
This afternoon I had my mock viva, which was an interesting experience. It was reassuring, in that I survived and there was only one question that I felt I completely flunked. That said, there were several others that brought home to me the need to be certain of my own position, which of course is…
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Je suis Charlie
“I [might] disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”
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Viva preparation
This morning I lifted my thesis from the bookshelf and looked at it for the first time since I put it there in September. I have to admit that there is a certain amount of pride just from in holding it in my hands. It’s a substantial piece of work and represents a good three…
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