Thinking about the support of Chinese students
Here’s a link to the latest blog post on my blog at https://pvswrites.wordpress.com/2025/04/30/thinking-about-the-support-of-chinese-students/. This links out itself to some other sources.
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Ontological commitment
I was going to write up an account of my experience at the i-mean conference on identities I went to in Bristol in April. Rather than provide a full account, though, as a result of this conference I had a brain itch that has only just been scratched, and I thought I would share that instead. This starts with one […]
Read morePublication (I hope)
My chapter for the Sage Cases in Methodology collection looks like it will be published, perhaps later in the year. The chapter is called “An ethnography of academic writing: on the very idea of an ethnography”, and it essentially about my struggles in characterising and naming (not to mention conducting and writing) my doctoral research. The SCM project itself looks […]
Read moreBeware the author mills…
Dear All I thought I’d write this fairly urgently as many of you may have been in the same position, or are likely to be in the near future… This morning I arrived to find an email in my work inbox from Lambert Academic Publishing (LAP), an arm of VDM. They are offering to publish my PhD thesis; in fact, […]
Read moreSome thoughts on the last 6 months of doing a PhD (part-time)
I’ve just read the last substantial post I made from about three or four years ago and thought, now that the PhD is completed, that it would be nice to reflect. A lot has happened since the last post and in a sense it’s hard to compare what it was like then to how I am now. The last post […]
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