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
6 stories from 2 writers across Scotland
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
Sometimes I wonder how many of my academic colleagues would react if they knew how I actually fund my research. The irony isn't lost on me: I'm writing a dissertation on social structures and transact
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
There's a certain type of client you get in Aberdeen that's pure product of the North Sea oil industry. Massive wages, minimal social skills, and an expense account that could sink a small country. I'
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
People always assume academia and sex work are worlds apart. They're not. Not really.My doctoral research was about labour economics and marginal work identities. Which, looking back, feels hilariousl