I use my scholarship primarily to investigate boundaries. One of the boundaries I feel most concerned to address is that between critical thinking and creative practice. I have attended (and…
The Corporate Humanist: Why This Degree?
I was recently asked to hold a consultancy with an education group in India. Like the US, the corporate sector in India is investing in education at the pre-secondary and…
Feeling English, Thinking Teaching: Language Workshops in Calcutta
I do apologise to my readers for the interruption to my blog. Illness has stopped me from being more regular but I hope that I have now adjusted to the…
View from Calcutta: Indian universities and the UK
Many apologies to my readers for the break in this blog. The logistical pressures of moving countries and cities – from London to Calcutta – and a nasty bout of…
Let’s Talk: Dr. Ritu Mahendru on Networking and Cultural Mobility
This is a continuation of an interview with Dr. Ritu Mahendru who received her PhD in Sociology from the University of Kent in 2010, and the second in a series…
After your PhD: Making Good Publication Decisions
One of my supervisors once said to me that a PhD is an “apprenticeship project.” I did not fully understand what this meant until about a month before I handed…
After the Riots
I have written previously on this blog on my resistance to the idea that scholars – or luvvys and boffins to borrow the phrase used by Eric Schmidt, Chairman of…
Research and Teaching: the Stretch
In this post I want to talk about the relationship between your research and your teaching. Researchers may feel that they walk a lonely path – and they do. Research…
Let’s Talk: Shaping Your Thesis for Publication
I began this blog with a short post on “Getting Published” http://www.jobs.ac.uk/blogs/language-and-literature/2011/04/27/let%E2%80%99s-talk-getting-published/ . In that post I discussed the basic principles of why and how we as collective knowledge builders…
Let’s Talk: Meeting Adrian Holliday
Professor Adrian Holliday is the Head of the Graduate School at Canterbury Christ Church University and also Professor of Applied Linguistics at the Department of English and Language Studies at…