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From the beginning of my PhD, I noticed the word “engagement” getting thrown around a lot in the university (and in a number of other academic events I would attend). My initial reaction to this was abject fear as I pictured me trying to do research with children (while I have learned that I do
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Originally I intended this to be part of my Creativity post as a quick recap of recent adventures, but as usual, my writing spiralled and the brief update grew into a whole post worth of content. So, let us start this weeks double posting with my most recent adventures. Since the last post I have
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As mentioned in the previous post, last weekend I set rail for Sheffield to attend the British Accounting and Finance Association (BAFA) annual conference. I mentioned my usual ritual of creating expectations that I am unable to fulfil at such events so now that I am home, it is time to reflect upon my findings…
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This week while revisiting some mid-20th century papers I was reminded of one paper that prompted much of the direction for my thesis, J.C.R. Licklider’s 1960 ‘Man-Computer Symbiosis’. (let us ignore the inherit sexism in the term for now). While I have adopted this paper into my theoretical framework, it is not symbiotic theory alone