
Getting started on your PhD proposal
A couple of people in my wider circle have recently asked me about how to get started on a PhD proposal. This advice is mostly
A couple of people in my wider circle have recently asked me about how to get started on a PhD proposal. This advice is mostly
Your progress might feel slow, but that might just be the normal speed of trying to learn new things, or experimenting (and often failing) to find new
Sometimes I realise that an important idea I’ve been talking about, almost since the beginning of the blog, has never had a post of it’s
Perhaps you feel like your year swings into productivity and then out again. Perhaps you are aware of all the wobbles and adjustments you are constantly having to make. Perhaps sometimes you need to reach out for support. Maybe sometimes you fall off balance and have to quickly get back up again. These are ways that people talk to me about balance–and they suggest that they are therefore ‘bad at balance’, ‘unbalanced’. But actually, this is exactly how bodies and minds should balance.
You know I love Kamler and Thomson’s Tiny Texts–and we talk about them at length in our Academic Writing Trouble book. I’ve also talked before
I’ve mentioned ‘done lists‘ before, but as it’s the beginning of the year, I thought it was time to remind you about them. In January,
Someone whose work I really appreciate is Jo Van Every (@JoVanEvery). She has written a lot of blog posts (for example Juggling 101: Elements of
I started this blog (under another name) about nine years and over 200 posts ago… that’s a long time on the internet. In the first
When I started going to the gym (see Exercising Like a Girl parts 1 and 2), one of the things that was kind of weird,