This year the PhD finally became 100% official, I have the piece of paper! Two years on from submission I am now back to thinking all things Svalbard again. I am extremely grateful to have won funding from the Economic and Social Research Council to develop my doctoral research and myself as an academic over… Read More
May 19th 2017 was the day I had been dreading for nearly 4 and a half years, v-day, judgement day, the PhD ‘defense’ or viva voce as we still call it…And it was fine. Despite inviting some very senior and amazing geographers to read it (who I had never met, deeply respect and was in… Read More
Image credit: fastbleep.com Not that I think being Dr will make me gleeful, but I appreciate the sentiment! I was very fortunate to be in Trondheim whilst there was a PhD ‘disputas’, or what we would call a viva. On Friday Karina Barquet successfully defended her thesis on “Transboundary Conservation and Conflict”. In the UK… Read More
It’s been quiet on the blog since I returned from Svalbard in February. I have been head down, trying to write chunks of thesis. However, at the moment I am employing the ‘change is as good as a rest’ strategy: The Wales DTC of the ESRC has kindly supported me in paying a visit to… Read More
It’s getting a little late for new year’s posts, but so long as it’s still January I’m going for it anyway! I can’t believe it’s been over 12 months since last year’s reflections. Things have been quiet on the blog recently as I’ve been trying to knuckle down to writing up and making sense of… Read More
At the end of August I attended the Royal Geographic Society (with IBG)’s annual conference in London. In preparation for, during and after the event I did a fair amount of reflecting on what the purpose of taking part in conferences are. I think it’s fair to say that academics put a fair amount of… Read More
This week I took part in a two day interdisciplinary, multi-modal research workshop, organised by the ESRC Wales DTC in Cardiff. The aim of the day was to explore the different modes we make meaning and observe with, the affordances of four key media with which we can record ethnographic observations, and the relationship between… Read More
Back to Aberystwyth just in time to see the sunset! Being a largely qualitative researcher, it’s not that often you’ll see that many figures in my work. Sometimes putting a number on things is interesting and can give a good overall picture though, so here are a few random things that you might be interested… Read More
Time has flown by since I returned from Svalbard, it’s been 2 months already! It has been an interesting and slightly chaotic time. I hadn’t really thought about what it would be like having ‘done’ my fieldwork, except that it meant I ought to get on with analysis and writing and could for a while… Read More
Research back at ya! As a parting gesture and small payback for all the help people in Svalbard have given me with my research, I thought it might be fun/interesting/fair to subject myself to the same questions I have been asking. As with all the interviews I have undertaken, I start with the general questions… Read More
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