Accounting for Humanity

Follow my current “in action” work:

Research

• 2nd paper creation, editing/refining
• Taphophile project planning and literature review
• As yet unnamed project planning and literature review
• Literature review process for a future Scottish history research paper
• Thesis publication planning
• The Ledger of Death, an academic fiction (subscribe on substack to follow the tale)
• Building courage to revisit feedback from rejected paper (16th Jan’26 still not there yet)
• Paper planning for probation targets

Reading

• The Work of the Dead, Thomas W Laqueur
• Accounting for Oneself: Worth, Status, and the Social Order in Early Modern England, Alexandra Shepard
• Halloweird: Classic Stories from the season of Samhain, The British Library, edited by Johnny Mains
• E is for Edward : A Centennial Celebration of the Mischievous Mind of Edward Gorey, The Edward Gorey Charitable Trust (COR) & Gregory Hischak

This Semester’s Teaching

• UG & PG Dissertation Supervision
• Auditing, Assurance and Professional Ethics (PG)
• Auditing & Assurance (UG)

Learning

• PG Cert in Learning & Teaching

Creating

• An army of tiny emotional support chickens (knitting)
• Vintage sweater (knitting)
• 18th century men’s shirt (sewing)
• Goldwork Embroidery (first attempt, it is looking…em…”nice from a distance”)

Other Amusements

• Friends of Greyfriars Kirkyard work activities
• Remembering the Accused Witches of Scotland activities
• Substack-ing, seems like the ideal place to put my thoughts into short form articles