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Due January 2010 January 21, 2010

Last August or so I blithely whacked together an abstract for a local journal run from the uni here. The issue is about supporting postgraduate students so I wrote an abstract entitled “Scribbling in the Margins: Negotiating the tensions and challenges of the regional research student”. The due date for the paper was the end […]

Me…Unleashed…on John Safran October 23, 2009

I’m very excited because I have had an opinion piece published online at the ABC Unleashed website today. I have been keeping very quiet about it because they contacted me Wednesday afternoon and I wrote it that night. Having had a slight debacle the only other time I tried to write an op ed (with […]

Me…Unleashed…on John Safran

I’m very excited because I have had an opinion piece published online at the ABC Unleashed website today. I have been keeping very quiet about it because they contacted me Wednesday afternoon and I wrote it that night. Having had a slight debacle the only other time I tried to write an op ed (with […]

Here tis…. October 15, 2009

I was going to write an interesting post about my research thingy. Instead I decided to just include the link to the uninews website where they have done that for me already. Here tis…..

Thursday: It’s tiring being happy all day October 8, 2009

So today was pretty blooming exciting for a few reasons. 1. I had coffee and cake before work with the wonderful Anne M. This will perhaps be our last coffee before she leaves to live in Brisbane ON MONDAY. I will miss her. Still we are going out for a farewell dinner on Saturday night […]

Thursday: It’s tiring being happy all day

So today was pretty blooming exciting for a few reasons. 1. I had coffee and cake before work with the wonderful Anne M. This will perhaps be our last coffee before she leaves to live in Brisbane ON MONDAY. I will miss her. Still we are going out for a farewell dinner on Saturday night […]

Forward ho to a changed life through education!? August 16, 2009

One of my “iss-ewes” teaching in a division, outside of faculty, and my research area, and in a university preparatory program is the question of research workload. Officially, the word has been 20% of an academic’s workload at my institution was to be devoted to research. (I shall pause for some of you to fall […]

Forward ho to a changed life through education!?

One of my “iss-ewes” teaching in a division, outside of faculty, and my research area, and in a university preparatory program is the question of research workload. Officially, the word has been 20% of an academic’s workload at my institution was to be devoted to research. (I shall pause for some of you to fall […]

When will I ever learn? August 6, 2009

I ate a Freddo frog for afternoon tea.When will I ever learn that I hate milk chocolate?Perhaps the answer is blowing in the wind.Yes…I did manage to segue from milk chocolate treats to a Bob Dylan reference in the space of two sentences. Sorry everyone. My gantt chart is giving me trouble. Normal posts will […]

When will I ever learn?

I ate a Freddo frog for afternoon tea.When will I ever learn that I hate milk chocolate?Perhaps the answer is blowing in the wind.Yes…I did manage to segue from milk chocolate treats to a Bob Dylan reference in the space of two sentences. Sorry everyone. My gantt chart is giving me trouble. Normal posts will […]