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Category Archives: academic life
on being lazy
I’ve been meaning to write this post all week. But I’ve not done so. And here I am on Sunday morning with the prospect of not having anything to publish, for the first time ever. I’ve sat at my desk … Continue reading
Posted in academic life, hyper performativity, laziness, performativity, resistance
Tagged Pat Thomson, preformativity, radical laziness, resistance, Slow
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of publications past, present and future
Look, just blame this bit of silliness on working at home since March. And a bit of clickbait from the Times Higher ( paywalled, but you can see the headline) (cough) I know you’re there. Turn on the microphone. And the camera. … Continue reading
Posted in hyper performativity, performativity, productivity, publications
Tagged hyper performativity, Pat Thomson, productivity, publications
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blog as teach-in/teach-out
During my protest-filled undergraduate years, there were regular sit -ins – where university offices were occupied – and teach-ins – where alternative interpretations of current events and their histories were explored. University staff and students collaboratively developed a radical curriculum … Continue reading
Posted in academic life, academic writing, blogging, blogging about blogging, social media, teach-in
Tagged blogging, Pat Thomson, social media, teach-in
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you expect what? hyper performativity and academic life
This is a guest post from Dr Julie Rowlands, Deakin University, Australia. Julie is concerned about problems created by institutional demands for academic hyper-performativity. Perhaps you are too. Recently my university’s central research office promoted a workshop for PhD students seeking … Continue reading
a ‘good academic day’
What is a good academic day? What happens to make you go home/leave the office and say to your partner or cat/dog/budgie – I had such a good day today. I’ve come to the rather obvious conclusion that my good … Continue reading
Posted in academic day, academic life
Tagged academic day, learning, Pat Thomson, reflection on learning, scholarship
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2017 – the year of the ‘to do’ list
Social media folk delight in discussing the organisation of academic work. How to manage time. How to organise all that information that comes in and out. How to sort and select tasks in order of their urgency and importance. How … Continue reading
Posted in academic writing, academic writing as work, to do list, Uncategorized
Tagged academic life, academic writing, Pat Thomson, to do list
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I still call australia/england home
A version of this post was recently published by the Guardian HE network. It seems appropriate to post it now, given that I’m just back home from five weeks in Australia. Some academics are now highly mobile. We are internationally … Continue reading
Posted in academic life
Tagged international academic, mobility, Pat Thomson, Robert Reich
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writing like those I admire
That half conscious state between sleeping and waking seems to be the time that I begin to compose a blog post. I often wake up relatively early with a half formed idea. I then work on it idly, gradually waking … Continue reading
Posted in academic book, academic life, academic writing, argument, authority in writing, de Certeau, reading
Tagged academic writing, books, Pat Thomson
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