Tag Archives: conference

conference tips – the old-school handout

Posted on August 19, 2019 by pat thomson

We’ve all been to that conference session where the presenter puts up a slide with a really complicated table. Or a very dense set of quotations. They don’t do this to deliberately confuse people or give them eye strain – … Continue reading →

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flip your presentation format

Posted on July 22, 2019 by pat thomson

Conference presentations. We almost always have one coming up somewhere. So we are often thinking about how best to organise what we have to say. Now, there’s a lot written about conference presentations and what can go wrong with them. … Continue reading →

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blog as text – a bit of meta-bloggery

Posted on May 28, 2018 by pat thomson

In a few weeks, Mark Carrigan and I are going to convene an experiment in blogging as a live research method. We’re doing this lab work at the Undisciplining: Conversations from the Edges conference in Newcastle. (Registration closes on June … Continue reading →

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academics behaving badly – calling out the Cleverclogs

Posted on April 30, 2018 by pat thomson

Continuing the occasional series on bad academic behaviour.  The Drs Cleverclog are well known in academic circles. A very large extended family of know-it-alls. At least one of them makes their presence known at every conference, meeting and large academic … Continue reading →

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live blogging academic writing – an un-conference

Posted on April 9, 2018 by pat thomson

This week I am running an academic writing course at The University of Iceland. Ive been running academic writing courses here for some years but usually I just do a week long programme about writing a journal article. This time … Continue reading →

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choosing a conference

Posted on September 4, 2017 by pat thomson

I’ve recently been asked how new PhDers ought to go about choosing academic conferences. Here goes… Because conferences are discipline specific, you really do need to talk with your supervisor and your peers about which are the best conferences to … Continue reading →

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post conference reflections – on networking and “reporting back”

Posted on May 22, 2015 by pat thomson

As always, after coming home from a conference I’m in a swirl of muddled ideas. I have some obligations to contact people and send things, and there’s some further follow up work to do. I’ve also inadvertently been thinking about … Continue reading →

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flipping the conference: experiences from the Temporal Belongings project

Posted on October 9, 2014 by pat thomson

This is a guest post from Michelle Bastian (University of Edinburgh) In response to Pat’s recent call to flip the conference format, I wanted to share some of my experiences from the Temporal Belongings project. Our focus is on exploring … Continue reading →

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conference blog – post conference follow-up

Posted on September 26, 2014 by pat thomson

So you’re home. The suitcase is unpacked and the laundry put in the basket. You’ve turfed out all of the surplus conference detritus you inadvertently brought home and hung the conference bag up with its new companions. Now what? Oh … Continue reading →

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conference blog- should I go to the conference dinner?

Posted on September 23, 2014 by pat thomson

Most conferences have a dinner. Oh no, they don’t, I hear you say? Well yes, it’s true the giant ones don’t, that’s simply a matter of logistics. You just can’t find venues and caterers able to deal with the teeming … Continue reading →

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