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online learning for all
This is a guest post from Anna Pilson. Anna is a PhD student at Durham University School of Education. Her ESRC-funded project aims to create a participatory action research model that positions children with a vision impairment as knowledge producers and … Continue reading
Posted in ableism, academic writing, online identity, online meeting, online teaching
Tagged ableism, Anna Pilson, online meetings, online teaching
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five suggestions for universal PhD ‘after-care’
One of the things that has become obvious during lockdown is how much more we might do for PhDers contemplating their futures. If ever there was a time to start something better and more supportive for researchers in our care, … Continue reading
Posted in academic mentoring, academic writing, after-care, library, mentoring, PhD, PhD completion, postdoc, research mentoring
Tagged hot desk, library access, mentor, Pat Thomson, PhD after-care
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lockdown diary
I’ve been in lockdown with my partner for two months now. I have hardly left the house, apart from the occasional walk. Well I have been outside, of course, but in our small backyard and not proper outside outside, if … Continue reading
Posted in academic writing, emotional labour, lockdown, pandemic, productivity
Tagged emotional regime, FONDA, lockdown, pandemic, Pat Thomson, producivity
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progress
Progress – getting somewhere. Good progress – doing what is expected and a bit more. Poor progress – the reverse. Remember those ambiguous school reports? “Patricia is making good progress with… , but she could do better in … ” Patricia … Continue reading
Posted in academic writing, pandemic, progress
Tagged academic wriitng, pandemic, Pat Thomson, productivity, progress
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we need to talk about Zoom
This is a guest post from Mark Carrigan who works as postdoctoral research fellow in the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge. There’s a peculiar kind of exhaustion which comes from spending an afternoon staring at Zoom. I’m mentally drained … Continue reading
Posted in academic writing, Mark Carrigan, meetings, online meeting
Tagged Mark Carrigan, online meetings
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a parable for online teaching
The early 1930s. Pre Nazi Germany. Walter Benjamin, philosopher and cultural critic, regularly presents a twenty minute “book lore”programme on German radio. In his story “On the minute” Benjamin tells us that when his programmes were first commissioned, the department … Continue reading
Posted in academic writing, audience, online teaching, pedagogy
Tagged audience, online teaching, Pat Thomson, pedagogy, Walter Benjamin
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are we all part time now?
Being a part-time doctoral researcher is hard. Part-timers are generally already in work, professionals, “mature”, doing the doctorate to upgrade quals and/or further an interest. There’s a lot of part-time in my field of education, and in other areas like … Continue reading
Posted in academic writing, part time PhD, space
Tagged digital, isolation, part time doctorate, Pat Thomson, working at home
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getting by and getting on
I’ve spent a lot of time online shopping these last two weeks. Shopping for food. Before we went to Australia we’d let the store cupboard run down as we didn’t want to come home to rats, mice or moths. When … Continue reading
Posted in academic writing, pandemic
Tagged Kindness, phdpandemic, VirutalnotViral, wellbeing
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what to do now?
zoom zoom spotify what’s app email wix facetime zoom skype Instagram email twitter teams twitch zoom youtube skype email email email wix twitter zoom zoom I have put more apps on my screens during the last week than in the … Continue reading
Posted in academic writing, ethics of care
Tagged @virtualnotviral, ethics of care, pandemic, Pat Thomson, Web Foundation
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