Dr Nadine Leese

Academia & Mental Health

24/02/2014

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Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)

20/02/2014

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An anonymous doctoral researcher recounts their experiences of IBS and the impact it has had on their studies and career.

[Research Seminar] The Widow: A Literary & Cultural History (1837-1979)

16/02/2014

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Research Seminar, 5 March 2014, Department of English, Durham University

Mrs Dalloway: Critical Perspectives

31/01/2014

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The Twilight Zone: After the PhD, Before the Academic Job

24/01/2014

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You’re close to submitting your PhD, to passing your viva voce examination with flying colours, and to be awarded your doctorate. At various stages in these final months of your existence as a PhD student certain scary thoughts – of the practical kind – enter your mind repeatedly and persistently. When will my university email […]

Academic Juggling: PhD vs CV

22/01/2014

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Some of the most common questions with which PhD researchers are concerned focus on how they should set their priorities during their doctoral studies. What else, and how much of it, should you do next to researching and writing your thesis? As so often, I can’t answer this for all PhD students in all disciplines, […]

Academia & Social Media: An ECR Workshop

20/01/2014

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19 February 2014, ECR Network @ University of Kent

The Road Not Taken: PhD Training, Academia & Alternative Careers

14/01/2014

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Perhaps rather predictably the poem from which this post takes its title, Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” (1920), tells of a traveller’s decision to walk one road in favour of another when he encounters two divergent paths on his way. He tries to predict, as far as possible from his position, where each may […]

My First Time Writing a Book

11/01/2014

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Claire Warden, Senior Lecturer in Drama (University of Lincoln), shares her experience of the process of writing her first monograph.

Lyme Disease

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Amber Davis tells the story of interrupting her PhD due to Lyme Disease, though the nature of her illness was unknown to her at the time.

Gender & Queer Theory

08/01/2014

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This lecture introduces students to gender and queer theories and some of their key concepts, including also their relationship to feminist theory and transgender issues.

Theorising Popular Culture

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This is a lecture that recaps some of last semester’s theories and consider both how scholars have theorised the role of popular culture in today’s society and how we might analyse different popular culture texts – such as music videos, TV shows, and adverts – through the theories we have studied on this module.