What I wasn't expecting were the visions. Hildegard and I would have so much more to talk about now.
Category: publication
Writing rather than retiring: Immaculate Forms
(revised 25 September) This is more of a series of links than a separate story, but I'm putting it up to explain why I haven't been on this blog much recently. It's partly because I've been on other platforms but mainly because I've been very busy with the publication of my first 'trade book': Immaculate… Continue reading Writing rather than retiring: Immaculate Forms
The first time: how to publish in academia
Last week I was asked by someone relatively new to the academic game how they could start publishing. This being 2021, I rapidly realised that I should ask Twitter before answering. I wasn't sure how far my own experience, back in the 1980s, was typical in Arts and Humanities subjects, let alone how it would… Continue reading The first time: how to publish in academia
When the book comes out
publishers, publication and REF...
Retirement, four months in: it’s all a blur
I think it's time for another stock-taking blog post. This retirement thing is complicated, and I know I have followers who are thinking of taking the same path and want to know what it looks like, although their paths may turn out to be quite different. So, four months of retirement: what has happened so… Continue reading Retirement, four months in: it’s all a blur
Redundancy in universities
(written before The Open University began its extensive voluntary severance programme in 2018, but with a few relevant additions in italics...) It's déjà vu all over again... I had a bad case of déjà vu this week, as the universities of Manchester, Aberystwyth and Sunderland announced job cuts. I went through this at Reading in 2010… Continue reading Redundancy in universities
Publishing the book
'There are two sorts of failures,' one said with authority, 'those who never publish their PhD and those who publish it with xxxxxxxxx'. .
The retiring academic 