I have at various times of my career been unemployed for short periods. As I mentioned in previous posts, this is a pretty typical part of research as we are almost all hired on short term contracts. Your research might temporarily be on hold and is probably being picked apart by Read more…
When I was about 13 I started at a new school. Starting a school aged 13 you don’t get a lot of choices about what you get to do, which is fair as I remember me aged 13 and I wouldn’t have trusted me to decide on a sandwich filling, Read more…
Whilst doing a PhD occupies an almost definite and unrelenting full-time amount of headspace, it doesn’t necessarily have to take up the physical hours of a full-time job. Many people do their PhDs part-time and work alongside, or some people get jobs during the writing up and corrections stage when Read more…
Time are tough. We’re not quite at a ‘Mad Max apocalyptic scenario’ tough, but things are tough. Countries around the world have all suffered through austerity and academic institutions everywhere are looking at the offices full of academics and wondering how many they can get rid to save on the heating Read more…
Recently I lamented about the difficulty of fitting PhD amends around a full time job and life. Well, I’ve found the solution: quit your job and move city. So obvious, right?! It almost sounds like I’m trying to run from my corrections, doesn’t it. In fact it is the complete Read more…
I’m away at a conference this week, so being the highly organised blogger I am, I had a blog post already prepped for today. But then the US election happened… Now you might not know this but the most contentious cartoon I’ve ever made is of a rainbow pie chart Read more…