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Other Writing
As you may have noticed, this blog has been on the back-burner for a little while. While I do have plans for bringing it back, particularly as this academic year ends, I thought I’d provide (by way of a brief update) an overview of where else you can find my writing on the Internet, if…
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A (very) brief update
Well, hello there! It’s been quite a while since my last post, for which I can only apologise: between an upgrade viva (which I passed – more on this soon!), my first experience teaching undergraduates, and surprising amounts of work since then, the first term of my second year has been rather more hectic than…
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A tale of two conferences, II: Researching and Publishing the Medieval Now (York)
As I mentioned in my most recent post, the start of July was something of a blur for me, as I spent much of my time in conference mode. (In case you’re wondering, by the way, being in ‘conference mode’ tends to involve me bobbing up and down in my seat, enraptured by my fellow…
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This guy wrote a blog post about Asperger’s. What happened next will shock you!
Well, that was unexpected. I published my last blog post right before leaving for a rowing training camp, and had somewhat-intermittent internet access for the following 24 hours; in light of this, my latest check of the blog stats gave me a bit of a shock. All I can really say is thank you —…
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My experience with Asperger’s: studying, socialising, and starting to speak up
‘Second-term syndrome’ has been something of a hot topic in the PGR office of late. Several of us first-year students have found that after the active and productive first term in research, the long months after January have hit us with something of a sucker punch. Even as the key research questions surrounding your project…
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Conference Write-Up: ‘LIMITS’ (4th May 2016)
One of the stereotypical things that ‘PhD students do’, according to a recent study,[1] is to talk about things that interest them with other people who share that interest. What better way to start this chronicle of my PhD experience, then, than with a report from a conference? As might be expected given its age, Cambridge…
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