This post from the Graduate Research School first appeared on Thesislink in February 2016. It has been updated where some acronyms (or links) have since changed. Universities are enormous institutions. […]
This post by Dr Anaise Irvine first appeared on Thesislink in June 2018. Have you ever read a scholarly article or book and thought: what utter rot! If so: good. […]
I had a fantastically eccentric English teacher in secondary school. She dressed like she’d just stepped off the catwalk at the Wearable Art Awards, all swirling colours and structural hats. […]
For many people, our postgraduate years are our first introduction to one of the more complex aspects of academic life. For some it’s an exciting treasure hunt. For others, a […]
As an undergrad, it’s easily to communicate what you’re studying. You ‘major in’ a particular subject. You take courses that are prescribed for that major, you graduate with a degree […]
“I am one of the lucky and privileged few to make it to this level; destined to sit amongst the top 1% most educated people in the world. My parents […]
If you’ve been following the news, you’ll be aware that primary and secondary school teachers went on a ‘mega-strike’ recently to protest against their pay and working conditions. Given that […]
This post by Dr Anaise Irvine first appeared on Thesislink in April 2016. The writer Virginia Woolf famously said that in order to write, all a woman needed was “a […]
This post from the Graduate Research School was first published in February 2016. We have updated it to make it current for 2019. Universities are enormous institutions. Academia as […]
With the season of shopping and consumerism now upon us, we’ve started thinking about gifts that will satisfy and delight the academics in our lives. You may like to pick […]
OK, it’s Friday, we’re all tired and in need of a pick-me-up. What better to lift our spirits than a round-up of the assorted cute fluffy friends who have played […]
We all know what a job interview entails, right? Dress nicely, shake hands, answer questions. But academic job interviews can be much, much more complicated than that. Of course, the interview […]
