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A year in full time academia
Posted On June 5, 2021

I have been a full time online lecturer for a year now. I can’t believe that it has been a year, and I can’t believe I started my post-PhD academic …

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Forming an identity in academia
April 8, 2021

One of the unexpected challenges I have faced during my first year post-phd in academia is knowing how to form my own academic identity. After spending five years (honours included) …


Academia
Curiosity killed the cat, but fuels academia
March 11, 2021

While curiosity killed the cat, curiosity fuels academia. Academia is an incredible profession where amongst the administration, the student complaints, the tedious grant writing, and the journal rejections, you get …


Academia
Work Update
March 2, 2021

It has been a long time since I have provided an update post on the blog, and you have potentially noticed that my posts are less frequent, so I thought …


PhD
PhDiaries: 14th May 2016
January 24, 2021

The proposal meeting which will be held in August is edging closer and I am extremely nervous to get up and present my ideas in front of experts in the …


Academia
Navigating competition in early career academia
January 13, 2021

“Don’t be so kind you forget to be clever, don’t be so clever you forgot to be kind”. I have always been a sucker for resonating with lyrics, and this recent …


Academia
Reflections from 2020; Is employment ever permenant?
December 19, 2020

I find reflecting on the year that was beneficial and I have three reflections from 2020 that I want to share in three different posts. These are in no particular …


PhD
PhDiaries 12.03.2016
December 15, 2020

12th March 2016 Being a Saturday today meant that I didn’t do any work. This is novel as for my entire undergraduate experience I worked on weekends to support myself. I …