How to start conversations without offending/excluding anyone: Top tips from 4 decades of Very Polite Conversations across 4 continents

Back in September, I did a thread on Twitter that a lot of people found helpful about how to start … More

A thesis has shape as a tree has shape: Imperial Gardens, legitimacy and editing

This is a reflection on the form of a writing genre and what that means. I started thinking about it … More

By the time your academic writing is ready to be published, it’s a tough nut, a rose hip, a thick-skinned … More

I’m currently setting up a Learning Hub for La Trobe to bring together all the learning support across 6 campuses, … More

When I talk to PhD candidates about how they plan their time, this is one of the challenges that I … More

I’ve wanted to have the chance to regularly work from home for years, but it was never an option in … More

So things have been quiet over here on the blog, not because I haven’t been thinking and writing about support … More

Is your work ‘interdisciplinary’? (Or maybe it is ‘cross-disciplinary’ or ‘multi-disciplinary’.) Or is the purpose of your work to take … More

Now that basically every course has at least some online components, making your web resources accessible is important. Because students … More