Jen’s blog
My awesome and fearsomely clever little sister has just started blogging. She researches Active Galactic Nuclei and knows lots of stuff about space, black holes, blazars and ska-punk. She’s also a...
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It’s hard to know what to write here – there are so many issues of academic freedom, how universities should support their scholars and what constitutes restricted materials it’s hard to know where to...
View ArticleThe politics of representation
Because I’m trying to clear some tabs, here’s a useful definition of representation I found and need to read more about: As Gilles Deleuze [...] has argued, the politics of representation which...
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Live at Jodrell Bank
Been a bit quiet here, mainly because I’ve been writing and rewriting parts of chapters 3 and 5 and fuelled for the most part by caffeine, discounted creme eggs and irregular sleeping patterns. It’s...
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Some blog love
I’ve been ridiculously busy lately (teaching! training! seeing Jen Gupta perform as part of Manchester Science Festival and London Bright Club! linguistics reading group! oh yeah, that thesis thing I’m...
View ArticleThe high cost of researching
Recently I read Pat Thomson’s post about research participants finding the things written about them. Today, I went to a seminar on Older LGBT people: intersections of ethnicity, culture and religion....
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Why isn’t my professor black?
A couple of weeks ago I attended a panel discussion at UCL called, simply, “Why Isn’t My Professor Black?”. Race in academia and the experience of being a BME academic is something I’m keenly...
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Where are our elders?
[content warning: discussion of homo-, bi- and transphobia, racism, domestic abuse and suicide. I’ve tried to keep these fairly non-explicit; the reports I link to go into more detail] This is a write...
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