reflection – Accounting for Humanity

30th Jun 2023

Sheep on the Beach: Right Person, Wrong Conference

June has been a fast moving month, while 1 week was a much-needed holiday, it was immediately followed by a conference (and by immediately I mean I travelled from Croatia to Edinburgh to Norwich in one very long day). JIAR 10th Annual Conference @ the University of East Anglia I had been looking forward to

Reflecting at 50% – Reaching “halfway” on the PhD

On March 1st I hit the official halfway point in my PhD journey or, the unofficial official halfway point considering the first 2 years were part time so I am now only entering my ‘2nd year. Further, there is no knowing for certain if the finish line lies within the next 2 years (let us

Academic Divination: Seeing the Future in the Past

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