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moira_edinburgh

Scotland · Edinburgh · Member since Jan 2026
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Started during her PhD. Finished it too. The intersection of her academic training and her working life produces a specific kind of cognitive dissonance she writes about with unusual clarity.

dissertations and double lives

Some days I look at my PhD and my current work and marvel at how completely bizarre my life trajectory has been. There's something almost comically surreal about defending a complex theoretical disser

12 Feb 2026 👁 3

the double life of academic and escort

Sometimes I wonder how my dissertation committee would react if they knew how I funded my research. Not that they'd be shocked. Academia's pretty cutthroat. Funding's funding.My current research on ge

28 Jan 2026 👁 3

what my PhD taught me about client psychology

Weird how my doctoral research in social psychology keeps bleeding into my current work. Not that I planned it this way, but understanding human behaviour is apparently a transferable skill whether yo

22 Jan 2026 👁 2