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Thinking Fast and Slow (2012) by Daniel Kahneman outlines a two-state model of the mind, and although simplistic has proved very popular. System 1...

Last week I spoke of the challenges of trying to make progress with my PhD alongside ongoing major building work on the house in the Isle of Skye. ...

After a hugely helpful Supervision Meeting and my first Thesis Monitoring Committee a couple of weeks ago, I had set aside some time to reflect on...

While Nan Shepherd is perhaps best-known today for The Living Mountain (1977) her first love was not poetic prose, nor the novels for which she was...

Structuring my thesis and identifying key influencers has brought to the fore the work of Nan Shepherd.  In addition to her poetic prose, her...

In the early days of my PhD, I re-read The Living Mountain by Nan Shepherd (1977).  On initial reading I had felt that Shepherd was more about...

I am planning to do lots of reflecting over the next few weeks to give myself time to think about how my images and practice have changed and...

I met with both supervisors for a very helpful meeting to discuss the structure of my thesis. They had some general points to make before the more...

It has been a distracting time for both my practice and academic research because of ongoing building work at home.  This has meant that I have not...

After the success of the day at Lochain Dubha on Wednesday, and the positive feedback from fellow PhD students about those images, I decide to...

After some success yesterday with the waterfalls I decide to return to a location I have not used since before Covid 19 struck.  It is a series of...

After a break in this fifth period of practice, I resume my search for The Shape of Water.  I return to Sligachan where I had taken some images of...

This is a question an academic from the University of Gloucestershire posed in the context of my project The Shape of Water.  She offered that may...

Cover image:  Another Way of Looking at Love – Janelle Lynch (2015-2018) A chance comment by a fellow photographer led me to think more deeply about...

I had the most wonderful morning at the Museum of the Isles, Library and Archive at Armadale Castle.  I had contacted them in the context of my...

In the early 2000s, after many decades of the emergence of post-Kantian continental philosophy, realism had a renaissance.  In 2007, at a conference...

I attended the first of a four-part course, Introduction to Project Planning for Research recently.  This has led me to reassess my progress to date...

As organisations start to open up after lockdown, my thoughts are turning to conducting research about the historical visual representation of Skye,...