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This is one of those extremely honest and personal blog posts so be nice. And I’m writing it because I know SO MANY people who go through extremely similar stuff when studying but they are incredibly reluctant to discuss it publicly. Get a grip. Exhaustion and exasperation . . . → Read the rest of this entry…
David Latchman, the Master at Birkbeck just published his consultation document on how Birkbeck will progress following the impending changes to the public funding of university teaching and student finance. A meeting with students has been arranged and we are all invited to comment. . . . → Read the rest of this entry… World Domination | Social Media and some interesting research questions they raise View more presentations from Sofia Gkiousou. My PhD advisor kindly invited me to give a lecture on social media and the research questions they raise for his module on Digital Creativity and New Media. I’ve done presentations for him in the past . . . → Read the rest of this entry…
It’s all getting on my nerves a bit. Let’s take two essays I did. I LOVED one. The other was just this lukewarm thing that I just needed to get over with. Which one was better according to my own personal and academic god and torturer? The second . . . → Read the rest of this entry…
Here is a nice TED video from Amber Case (on twitter too) talking about her passion with cyborg anthropology. I guess it’s interesting for most audiences but I was hoping for a bit more. I’ll dig around for her work and articles, but in this video I . . . → Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s one for the IP interested crowd out there. A unanimous finding of not guilty was passed by the three-member Court of Appeal of Thessaloniki for the President of the Panhellenic Federation of Pontian Associations, who refused to pay IP rights to the Greek . . . → Read the rest of this entry…
I found this EXCELLENT blog post today in New World Notes titled Night Moves: Why Would a Real Life Woman Want to Be a Second Life Slave? 3 Reasons From 3 Gorean Women. It’s based on interviews taken by Nightflower, who writes on love and relationships . . . → Read the rest of this entry…
It’s time. FINALLY. (Yes I really am a geek and I love it when the academic year starts). This year THANK THE ASSORTED GODS OF THE DISCWORLD I won’t have to take any courses assessed. The blessing of being a research student. Check out the . . . → Read the rest of this entry…
I absolutely adore Terry Pratchett‘s work. His Discworld books have carried me over numerous bad or just plain crazy busy times. It is a crying shame that the latest TV adaptation of his book Going Postal departs so significantly from the book. I don’t mean . . . → Read the rest of this entry…
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I write about my academic pursuits. I am mainly into innovation in the creative industries and virtual worlds. Due to a humanities background I tend to go on about theory a lot.
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For years now I’ve been trying to understand the way my Supervisor works when it comes to my studies and my research. This might seem weird to the non-research student but trust me when I say that the relationship a research student has with a