Category Archives: Universities

Email triage

Posted on October 2, 2011 by stuartelden

I’ve written about how I handle email before. Jo van Every has an interesting post here, suggesting dealing with email as a whole is not a task on your to do list; but sorting your email is. I think this … Continue reading →

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Shapiro on Foucault

Posted on September 29, 2011 by stuartelden

Recording of an interview with Stephen Shapiro – co-author of new book How to Read Foucault’s Discipline and Punish – is available here. Interesting discussion of what Foucault is doing, and links to contemporary events and questions. The discussion of higher … Continue reading →

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Thus Bakes Zarathustra on finishing a PhD

Posted on September 18, 2011 by stuartelden

The brilliantly named ‘Thus Bakes Zarathustra’ (academic stuff meets cooking) has a really helpful advice post on finishing a PhD. Definitely worth a look if you are anywhere in that process, and also helpful for planning and completing any large … Continue reading →

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Senior Fellowships at Durham

Posted on August 25, 2011 by stuartelden

In 2011-12 Durham University is launching a new EU-sponsored Fellowship scheme (Durham International Fellowships for Research and Enterprise – DIFeREns) that will allow it to gather together scholars, researchers, policy makers or practitioners from around the world and across the … Continue reading →

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Collini on British Higher Education

Posted on August 18, 2011 by stuartelden

Stefan Collini in the London Review of Books (via Thom Brooks). Some choice excerpts, but the whole thing is well worth a read, and while the specifics are to the UK, this is surely relevant much further afield. Whether one … Continue reading →

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Peter Osborne on Middlesex

Posted on July 27, 2011 by stuartelden

Bit late linking to this, but interesting interview with Peter Osborne on the Middlesex philosophy occupation and protests from last year.

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Junior Research Fellowships at Durham

Posted on July 9, 2011 by stuartelden

14 postdoc fellowships at Durham  – details here.

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AHRC and ‘Big Society’ – action needed

Posted on June 23, 2011 by stuartelden

Posted on behalf of Thom Brooks. Please read and consider writing: Dear friends and colleagues, My thanks again for your support in the campaign to persuade the UK’s Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) to remove the “Big Society” from … Continue reading →

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Birmingham Fellowships

Posted on June 13, 2011 by stuartelden

These look a great opportunity for people just out of PhD – five year post-doctoral fellowships with a prospect of an academic job at the end of it. The fellowships are across all fields. Video from PVC Adam Tickell explaining and … Continue reading →

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More on the New College

Posted on June 9, 2011 by stuartelden

Reactions at The Disorder of Things; another news report in The Guardian, which among other things suggests Dawkins has little to do with it, Singer will give a single lecture, and Oxford don’t like the name. Brian Leiter also hosts an odd poll, noting … Continue reading →

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