Join us for the Red Launch of Tara's book, How to Embrace Academic Failure

Ending - A creative led doctoral thesis (A conversation with Dr Alison-Jane Hunter)

The embodied self in organizations - a conversation with Professor Priscilla Dunk-West

Post 108 - Academic Timescapes

Time is the invisible 'other' - Barbara Adam

Invisible work - A conversation with Professor Priscilla Dunk-West

Post 107 - (post)worry

The future belongs to ghosts - Derrida

Collaborations and partnerships

Post 106 - The PhD admissions interview

Boundaries and boundary management: A conversation with Professor Priscilla Dunk-West

Post 105 - Why? Asking the crucial question

Post 104 - The research gap

Post 103 - Levels of Thinking

"Comfort is a cage. Happiness is the Lure."

Obedience is rewarded

You do not owe the world your exhaustion.

Post 102 - Managing a slump

Lawrence Oliver and the challenges of feedback

The space between the words - A statement by Brian Froud

Post 101 - (Post)authenticity

Attention as a metric of success - a quotation by Alice Sherwood

Liars, fakers and imposters - A quote from Alice Sherwood

Burnout - a conversation with Professor Priscilla Dunk-West

Post 100 - AJP Taylor, beginnings and endings

Post 99 - Attempting a PhD for a second or third time

Happy Anniversary, Jamie (2025 edition)

Post 98 - From (under)confidence to curation of the self

How and why you think - Gabor Mate

Selection in a world of excess - Michael Bhaskar

Conformity - by AJP Taylor

Present and the Past - AJP Taylor

The Establishment - AJP Taylor

Knowing when to stop - Paul Kennedy

There for the beer - AJP Taylor

The power of academic mobility - a conversation with Professor Priscilla Dunk-West

Post 97 - Background character syndrome (and main character syndrome)

The Cage

Endgame

Puny Individualism - A quote from Tony Gilroy

Post 96 - How to examine a PhD through the oral examination

Choosing a postdoctoral position

Motivation - a conversation with Professor Priscilla Dunk-West

Post 95 - How to examine a PhD

How to develop a research trajectory - a conversation with Professor Priscilla Dunk-West

Post 94 - How to structure a PhD

An oral history of Western Australian food with Doris and Kevin Brabazon

Revisiting a younger sonic self

Women, visibility and leadership - a conversation with Professor Priscilla Dunk-West

Post 93 - When good PhD supervisors fail - or - the five faces of doctoral supervision

A caring infrastructure - a conversation with Professor Priscilla Dunk-West

Post 92 - The Two Body Problem

Post 91 - Competence and incompetence

Post 90 - Yusef Waghid: compassion, care and citizenship

Brabazon - Leadership Bingo: Baudrillard's double refusal and the future of followership

Toxic Positivity - a conversation with Professor Priscilla Dunk-West

Post 89 - Never enter a job without locating an exit

Find your way around or through formal education - Dollimore

Mid career academics - a conversation with Professor Priscilla Dunk-West

Post 88 - Making decisions about a job