Category Archives: Cultural Studies

After the Riots

I have written previously on this blog on my resistance to the idea that scholars – or luvvys and boffins to borrow the phrase used by Eric Schmidt, Chairman of Google speaking in Edinburgh last week at the annual MacTaggart lecture on the state of higher education in the UK – should be seen as living a life apart. And yet, oddly enough, I was indeed ensconced in a small room in a large building working on ideas – which is to say I was marking my students’ essays- when I first understood the scale of what had happened in the country.

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Research and Teaching: the Second Stretch

From amongst a wide circle of friends and colleagues who are both research active and teaching-active – to coin a new phrase – I’d say it’s extremely important to acknowledge that flexibility is both a personal and professional good. A friend who was awarded her doctorate in 2006 found a permanent teaching post within twelve months of completing. Her lectureship was not in History which was her “home” discipline if you like but in Criminology – she was able to develop a subsidiary interest into one which she could use as a foundation for her career. Read More »

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Let’s Talk: Meeting Adrian Holliday

Professor Adrian Holliday is the Head of the Graduate School at Canterbury Christ Church University and also Professor of Applied Linguistics at the Department of English and Language Studies at Canterbury Christ Church University. It is an enormous pleasure to welcome him to this blog.

A wider view of Adrian’s teaching, research and publication profile can be found on his homepage: https://sites.google.com/site/adrianholliday42/
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