May 19, 2022 | Uncategorised |
In Barbara Bosworth’s book The Sea, she includes a passage of prose by Rachel Carson, an American marine biologist widely acknowledged as one of the best twentieth-century writers on nature and the forerunner of the environmental movement. I was sufficiently curious...
May 17, 2022 | Uncategorised |
Hot on the heels of the face-to-face meeting with my first supervisor last week, I had a meeting with my second supervisor today as she was not able to join us in Dundee. We spoke first about the possible combinations of internal and external examiners and whether it...
May 14, 2022 | Uncategorised |
As many of you will know I am spending much of my time writing draft sections of my thesis and as I wade slowly through contributions to the Contemporary Practice element, I am finding connections and even coincidences coming thick and fast. A friend recently loaned...
May 13, 2022 | Uncategorised |
I met with my first supervisor today albeit for a short, rather rushed meeting, as I was also attending and presenting at the Arts and Humanities Postgraduate Symposium: Dwelling in Extremis. I was very grateful for her support later in the day as she attended my...
May 11, 2022 | Uncategorised |
I have written before about my working patterns and reluctance to take a break. Although this is positive, because I enjoy working on my PhD, sometimes a period of reflection is good as I found out on a recent trip to Dundee and Fife. Before presenting at the Arts...
May 1, 2022 | Uncategorised |
As many of you know, I have been working hard on writing a first draft of my thesis. For a few weeks, I was finding the writing relatively easy and was not having to refer to books and journal articles. However, when I started on the contemporary practice sections I...