humanity

  • Over the last few weeks, my thoughts have been turning toward the idea of “going analogue” and what digital, mobile, and smart technology has done to our concept, and value, of time. Most recently, I found my frustration hit its peak when, on opening a journal paper, I was confronted with “this is a long…

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  • As I find myself now nearly 8 months out from my PhD (or the viva anyway), I am becoming ever more aware of the difficulty in choosing direction. For me it feels like there is a mysterious dilemma in research, there is this line somewhere that, one one side, you stay centred and become an…

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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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  • I always struggled with my plans for this part of the website. It feels important to have the blog but, as a self publishing platform it felt “messy”. I have always wanted a place designed for reading articles of literary pursuits whilst having a less formal area for all of the other adventures that occupy…

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  • This is a brief thought (maybe, I say that a lot an then write an essay) that quite regularly passes in and out of my mind. When we talk about Artificial Intelligence, how intelligent are we actually talking? Now, as a disclaimer, I am not referring to the highly advanced, technical wizardry type AI’s that…

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  • It has been a long time since the last post. A long. Long. Time. As I entered this final year of my PhD, I did intend to “slow things down” on here as the effort had to shift to completing the thesis at a comfortable rate. I had ambitiously envisioned a fortnightly, or even monthly…

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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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  • Today’s post is yet more evidence of why scrolling through EventBrite can pay off (well sort of, only 1 event from this crawl was found there). Over the last 2 weeks I found myself inadvertently on yet another conference crawl, and not just any conference crawl, this one was entirely free of charge. What made…

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  • As I (try) to embed the habit of regular posting I have realised that fully researched/cited blog posts in conjunction with researching/writing a thesis may not be entirely plausible as ‘down time’ is very much a PhD necessity (after all, Halloween sweaters do not knit themselves). I do however, desire to share my research thoughts…

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