Science for Peace Public lecture: Alternatives to Fossil Fuels: Is the Bio-Economy the Answer We’ve Been Looking For? Key questions:1.Can we keep on burning fossil fuels?2.What can we replace them with?3.Will it work?
The Third Annual Workshop on The Changing Political Economy of Research and Innovation: Geographies, Value(s) and Transitions 23rd-24th March 2015 University of California, San Diego ‘Science’ – or research and innovation (R&I) – is increasingly… Read More »Workshop Call for Papers: Changing Political Economy of Research & Innovation
There is something rotten at the heart of Britain. It nestles deeply within British society, squatting swollen, suppurating, putrescent and noxious, and yet we barely notice it at all. It is difficult to see something… Read More »Something rotten in the Kingdom of Britain
Having moved from the UK to Canada, I’ve now had some experience – not much but enough to pontificate on a blog – of differences in PhD training and supervision. Whereas my UK experience was… Read More »My struggles with graduate supervision
What is clear is that computer gaming has changed and is changing as the result of greater interaction and multiplayer formats. It is likely that games like World of Warcraft, Sims, Second Life and so… Read More »Something slightly different (part 2)
This post is a little different … Has anyone wondered why Flappy Bird made such big waves last year? Well, it’s because of a phenomenon know as “let’s plays” (LPs) on YouTube – basically people… Read More »Something slightly different (part 1) …
AAG Annual Meeting, Chicago 2015 Paper Session: Biofuels, Bioenergy and the Emerging Bio-Economy ORGANISERS Kean Birch (York University, Canada)Kirby Calvert (Pennsylvania State University, USA)Peter Kedron (Ryerson University, Canada)Sharmistha Bagchi-Sen (SUNY-Buffalo, USA)Jennifer Baka (LSE, UK) OUTLINE… Read More »CfP: AAG2015 Biofuels, Bioenergy and Bioeconomy
Strangely, to me at least, I’ve been asked to write 5-6 book reviews this year (or offered to do them). That’s not meant, in any way, as a boast. It’s just that over the previous… Read More »How to write a book review
This is a guest post by Katherine Trebeck of Oxfam GB on alternative and post-academic academic (#altac & #postac) careers. It comes from a talk she gave at York University, Canada, to graduate students, after… Read More »Guest Post (by Katherine Trebeck): Making the leap – from ivory tower to practitioner. Well, kind of…
I am, in no particular order, “inexperienced”, “not clear”, “confusing”, “a very bad teacher”, “acts like he is way too important and cool”, “can never ask him questions”, “monotone”, “not helpful”, etc., etc. Well, that… Read More »My teaching failures …