My friend Dr. Andrea Kirkwood contacted me on Twitter this morning to direct me to this post on The Guardian. In it, a new mother talks about her dismay when several of her colleagues judged Read More
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When you are starting a career in academia, you are inevitably going to be working on a couple of short-term contracts. A lot has been written about this, and I don’t want to repeat Read More
Hi friends, A while ago, I wrote about not knowing what my future holds in terms of my career. Well, I am happy to say that life took upon itself to give me a boost Read More
I was going to wait until the end of my first working week of PhD life before posting again, but it feels like so much has happened in such a short space of time… though Read More
Last summer, I was awarded tenure and it felt amazing. It was one of the proudest and most significant moments in my life thus far. After the warm and fuzzy feeling wears off though, I Read More
On New Year’s Eve, I received a call from my supervisor. He told me that, during a storm, my pigeon shed had flooded. All of my power boards and electrical cables were under about 20 Read More
When I was younger, I thought research happened in white rooms. White walls, white floors, white benches, white coats. I imagined that everything in these rooms would be spotless and practically sparkling, like a scene Read More
Publishing scientific papers is a deeply demanding, albeit unavoidable, part of a researcher’s life. No longer can we be content to explore science for the sake of itself – we need to make our findings Read More
As is the case with a lot of scholars nowadays, I don’t really have a single fieldwork site. My thesis focused on Persia, but to keep my archaeology skills up, I have signed on Read More
I’m an Honours student who finished her first ‘official’ research year, and a proud owner of a freshly-minted thesis. In this blog post, I will be reflecting upon the year that was Honours. My Read More
