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Category Archives: Teaching & Learning
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.
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
Research and Teaching: the Stretch
In this post I want to talk about the relationship between your research and your teaching.
Be flexible and be open to the opportunities around you – don’t shy away because you think it’s not what you trained to do. Let your research self breathe and your teaching self too – they need to not be frozen into one place and one time in an infinite universe. Read More
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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Let’s Talk: Staying Earthed
I live and work in two countries: India and Britain and within two cultures which are usually perceived as extremely different to each other. From where I stand, it’s the similarities which strike home. Any urban professional, anywhere, is similarly expected to focus on the visual and the mental. But we are starving ourselves. I didn’t realize how much until I took up a yoga and movement course, which has helped me to bring movement back into my daily work day.
Let’s Talk: Getting Published
To begin this first blog I would like to say a few things about who I am, why I write these posts and who I hope they will reach and find a response from. I am a humanities scholar writing for and looking forward to hearing from, anyone who is involved in considering the present shape and the future of humanities scholarship.
In practical terms the need to publish seems to me the most pressing issue for scholars who, like me, have recently completed their doctoral work. Read More
