Professional Recognition: Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
A quick reflection on my Higher Education Academy Fellowship and what professional recognition can mean for postgraduates and early-career researchers.
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Supporting Student Wellbeing in Higher Education: Why & How
This post reflects on the issues surrounding supporting students’ wellbeing, especially academic workload, the unequal division of emotional labour, and the lack of appropriate training for those involved in pastoral care. It also offers five main strategies that can help support your students’ wellbeing and provide good pastoral care.
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[Special Journal Issue] The Male Body in Victorian Literature & Culture
The breadth and depth of scholarship on Victorian men and masculinities leaves much to be explored. This special issue is the result of a call for essays which aimed to bring together the work of scholars who seek to contribute to the filling this gap. The essays we have selected for this volume share a […]
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Contributors
Find out about all of The New Academic’s contributors.
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[Journal Special Issue] Introduction: The Male Body in Victorian Literature & Culture
Read the introduction to our special issue of Nineteenth-Century Context.
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No More Blue Mondays: Self-Funded Postgraduate Study
Lucy R. Hinnie talks about her journey to and through self-funded part-time study and the challenges and benefits it brings.
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Academia & Addiction
An anonymous PhD student discusses how Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and the pressures of academia have led them to become addicted to painkillers. Are academics prone to socially acceptable addictions?
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Social Media Skills for Students
Social Media Skills for Students is a new resource to help university students learn how to use social media to their advantage and in a professional manner.
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[Commentary] The Widow & the Law: A Brief History of Widows’ Pensions in Britain
At a time when we remember the First World War, its victims, and its survivors, it seems apt for me to share some of the research I’ve been doing on the literary and cultural history of the widow in Britain, and particularly on how the state’s support and the economic conditions of widowed women has changed in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and reflects both Britain’s development in terms of gender equality as well as the emergence of the welfare state.
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[News] Postfeminism & Contemporary Hollywood Cinema Reviewed in Women’s Studies International Forum
This is a review of Postfeminism & Contemporary Hollywood Cinema (2012), a collection of essays I edited with Dr Joel Gwynne.
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Are You Stressed Yet?: Effecting Change in Academia
In this post I reflect the ways in which we normalise and internalise potentially harmful levels of stress in academia, and how many of us are led to believe that if we’re not stressed we’re not doing our job right.
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[PhD Supervision] Chloé Holland, “Ellen Wood: The Professional Woman Writer & the Victorian Literary Marketplace”
Chloé’s work focuses on the work of Ellen Wood (or Mrs Henry Wood). In particular, she investigates the interconnections between Wood’s identities as a professional author, a woman writer, and a producer of highly popular works on the Victorian literary market place.
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The Blank Page: Some Writing Strategies
This post is dedicated to the intimidating blank space that is the first page of the yet untitled document which, at some point in time, is supposed to contain a well-argued, thoroughly researched, and original argument to stun your expecting reader. I’ve never been one of those people who is blessed with the ability to sit down, create […]
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