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“What for?”: when languages were an unpopular option

Maria Seijo-Richart - May 18, 2018

Around fifteen years ago, I met a girl whose friends deemed her crazy because she decided to study Arab (“What for?”). She ended having the last laugh when an oil…

A Good Spanish Book

Ricardo Roque Mateos - January 24, 2017

It’s been a while since I last wrote here. I’ve been very busy with lectures, projects, and all that stuff. One of the things that have kept me busy was…

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Training in equality and diversity: the pilot and the nurse

Maria Seijo-Richart - December 26, 2016

As a requirement for my job, I recently had to complete my Diversity and Equality Awareness training online. If you have not done your training yet, please stop reading right…

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Teamwork: Helping Your Department Colleagues Succeed

Ricardo Roque Mateos - April 1, 2016

I am having some arguments with my friends in academia about this particular point… Usually the debates happen around warm pizza, so everything stays civilized, but it is really surprising…

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Which English To Teach?

Ricardo Roque Mateos - February 1, 2016

The common position is quite clear. All varieties are equally valid, useful and beautiful in their own way (*group hug* *unicorns fly around spreading rainbows and love*). But you and…

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My Research Strategies

Ricardo Roque Mateos - November 6, 2015

I am one of those guys who love strategy games, have a special edition of Sun Tzu and could quote it by heart 😀 As in everything else… I have…

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Spanish Studies

Ricardo Roque Mateos - October 30, 2015

This field has three main areas where you should be proficient: Language, Literature and History. The explanation is quite simple. It’s impossible to teach a language at a university level…

Arts and/ or Sciences: how to solve the riddle of the sphinx

Maria Seijo-Richart - October 25, 2015

When I was in high school, the Spanish education system required fifteen-year-old students to choose between three options: from then on, they would study Ciencias [Maths and Science subjects], Letras…

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Everything I did wrong…

Caroline Magennis - October 21, 2015

…while hunting for an academic job. For five years I was employed in a variety of (most welcome) short term contracts, and I interviewed the length and breadth of the…

Do I stay or do I go? leaving academia post-PhD.

Emily Garside - October 21, 2015

I’ll let you all into a secret, as much as I am passionate about my PhD as something I wanted and needed to write, I’m not that excited about academic…

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