Research update #36: Playing well with others
The nature of my research topic, with a focus on the status of professional staff in an academic world, feels risky at times. While I know that academic staff occupy edvisor roles as well, I […]
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Research update #31: Commonalities and differences
Coming back to the ever-reliable Pat Thomson list of things to PhD blog about: Things that I have in common with other PhDers We’re all on the same kind of journey and I assume are […]
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Thoughts on: Reconceptualising academic work as professional practice: implications for academic development (Boud & Brew, 2013)
I’ve been really struggling to process my thoughts on this paper for the last week. I’ll read a few pages, furiously scribbling notes all over it, and then need to step away to deal with […]
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Research update #29: Slowly digesting
I’m re-reading (or properly reading) a paper by Boud and Brew that I’ve previously skim-read but now that more pieces are falling into place in my research, I’m realising its true value. The main problem […]
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Research update #26: The reboot
Here’s this week’s Pat Thomson inspired PhD journal topic: I have learnt since starting the PhD that… I need to rethink my approach and be a little more realistic in my planning. This is the […]
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Research update #24: The community
I mentioned recently that I’d come across some interesting anthropological research suggesting that the key reason that academics rarely innovate their teaching is fear of looking foolish in front of their students. There was a whole […]
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Looking for a new narrative
I woke from a dream this morning – no, it’s ok, I’m not going to tell you about it in detail – and am now wondering about the kind of story that I see myself […]
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Research update #21 – Where is this going?
When I tell academics what stage of my PhD I’m up to, they invariably smile wistfully and tell me that this stage is probably the best part of academia ever and I should just enjoy […]
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Research update #18: Wow, it’s been a while
While I haven’t been ‘here’ writing up things about readings, there’s still been a little bit of research action going on under the surface. I had a great meeting in person with Peter and Lina […]
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Thoughts on: The Dynamics of Social Practice: Everyday life and how it changes – Chapter 4 (Shove, Pantzar and Watson, 2012)
Chapter 4 of The Dynamics of Social Practice takes us from the ways that the elements of practices circulate, emerge and disappear to the people that ‘carry’ these practices and some of the reasons that […]
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