Publishing With Integrity (Whilst Still Having Career Options)
At the beginning of this month I attended the European Association of Archaeologists Annual Meeting in Glasgow. One of the papers I presented was in a round-table session run by […]
Tag Archives: PhD
PhD Alert: Condition Red
Wow. I have let the blog slide a little bit, eh? No posts for two months. I would apologise, except for the fact that I write this blog in my […]
PhDs: Creative W̶r̶i̶t̶i̶n̶g̶
I almost went to college to study art. I even interviewed for a place. I had a portfolio and everything. That was more than a decade ago and honestly, I […]
Silence in the Cemetery: Part II (Academia)
This is Part II. Part I is here. [This post is quite long. If you want to skip the personal waffle and go straight to my recommendations for how you […]
Silence in the Cemetery: Part I
It was around this time, three years ago that I began to notice things were not quite right. I had begun my PhD a month before and initially I put […]
What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us? [Penny Interviews]
[The following post was originally published on May 30, 2013 at Penny University.] It should be noted that anywhere it says PhD candidate below, you can now insert Doctor! — […]
One lump, or two? [Penny Interviews]
One year ago (ish) I started posting interviews with PhD students, post-docs, and early career researchers over at Penny University. This website features some uh-mazing research being conducted by up-and-coming […]
Skeletons, Plague, Maths
#waitingforresults
More than a thesis…
On Monday and Tuesday of this week the Archaeology Department held its annual postgraduate workshop. Over the two days current first- and third-year PhD students present their projects to other […]
GIFted Researcher
It has come to my attention recently that I don’t really blog all that much about my actual research. There are reasons for this, mostly because I didn’t think anyone […]
Deathsplanation 