A Style of One’s Own: Angela Carter’s *The Magic Toyshop* (1967)
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Essential Desirables: Academic Employability and the PhD
A blog post I wrote for Jobs.ac.uk on making yourself employable during your PhD, particularly for a career in academia.
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War of the Worlds: Choosing Your Post-PhD Career
This is a short blog post I wrote for Jobs.ac.uk on deciding on your career path after your PhD.
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Let’s Talk About Love: Academia, Family, & Relationships
An anonymous contributor reflects on the relationship between love and academia, and on whether the former can really be applied to our work.
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Trauma & the PhD
Vicki Adams is a PhD student in English Literature, and shares her insight into what it’s like to go through higher education as a sufferer of abuse and trauma.
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Eating Disorders & the PhD
An anonymous contributor shares their experiences of suffering and recovering from anorexia during their PhD.
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The Importance of Support: Managing Long-Term Illness & PhD Study
Vivienne Dunstan reflects on two very different experiences of being a PhD student with a long-term illness .
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OCD vs. PhD: A Life in Two Halves
An anonymous contributor shares the positives and negatives of working in academia with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.
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We Regret to Inform You: On Interview Feedback
Interview feedback is difficult to approach, both giving and receiving. As someone who has more often been on the receiving end, I’ve found directly helpful feedback to be the exception rather than the rule. So, this post is about how to interpret feedback which might not tell you as much as you want. For me, […]
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Everything Else Can Wait: Managing Mental Health Issues During My PhD
An anonymous guest blogger shares their story of adjusting to their mental health issues during her PhD with the help of institutional support services.
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Life as a High-Functioning Depressive PhD
An anonymous guest blogger diversifies the perceptions of depression by reflecting on their experiences of being a high-functioning depressive.
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Dark Thoughts: Why Mental Illness Is on the Rise in Academia
6 March 2014, The Guardian Higher Education Network. I was invited to comment on academia and mental health for this article.
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Deconstruction
This is an introductory lecture to structuralism, poststructuralism, and deconstruction. This post contains a detailed lecture handout as well as the Prezi for the lecture.
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Making Connections Through Social Media
Research Seminar, 30 April 2014, Women’s Research Network, University of East Anglia
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In It To Win It?: Academia, Competition & Mental Health
An anonymous blogger shares their thoughts on academia as a competitive realm relationship and its effects on mental health.
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The Mentally Healthy PhD
Dr Jo Clements shares the strategies she found effective in maintaining her mental health during her PhD research.
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Anxiety & Academia
An anonymous blogger reflects on the relationship between anxiety and academia.
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Academia & Mental Health: Call for Guest Posts
Mental health in academia can be a complex and sometimes contradictory issue. On the one hand, doing a PhD and being an academic in your chosen field means you have the opportunity and the privilege not only to pursue a very specific personal interest but also that you have the influence to shape the area […]
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