REPOSTED at The Professor Is In … (02 April 2013) I wanted to write a post for North Americans seeking jobs in the UK academic labour market. First, because there seem to be far more… Read More »For North Americans: the peculiar British interview process
I will be participating in a PhD ‘training workshop’ at the University of Edinburgh next month called Dimensions of Value and Values in Science, Technology and Innovation Studies (17-18th April). There might still be spaces… Read More »Workshop: Dimensions of Value and Values in STS
I was recently asked to read and write an endorsement for Owen Worth’s Resistance in an Age of Austerity which is going to be published by Zed Books early next year. It’s a really interesting… Read More »Endorsement: “Resistance in an Age of Austerity”
I just wanted to ‘advertize’ this art show called Merged: A Hybrid Show, which is about to start in Toronto this week – opening night is Thursday 20th from 7pm, I think. It’s at the… Read More »Merged: A Hybrid Show
Just had another short piece published on the New Left Project website called ‘It’s not just the 1%’ – it’s part of a series on ‘The Politics of Housing‘ that NLP are running over about… Read More »It’s not just the 1%
Just remembered this great journal. Definitely worth a submission, and I really should have submitted something there a long time ago. I will remedy that forthwith! http://www.universalrejection.org/
Culum Canally has written a response to a collectively written piece I contributed to, published in the journal Antipode and called ‘What can we do? The challenge of being new academics in neoliberal universities’. The… Read More »Response to ‘What can we do?’
Just found this website called Duck of Minerva that has useful info and suggestions regarding general academic life. Might be of interest …
Just had a short piece called “Manifesto for a doomed youth” published on the website of the Canadian Dimension magazine: “Two things have happened in recent months that have made me think seriously — and… Read More »Manifesto for a doomed youth
So, what have I learned from my job application and interview experiences? I learned a lot about the whole process during my PhD. I started applying before I had finished and even before my final… Read More »More failure in the academy … Part 3