The disposable academic: Why doing a PhD is often a waste of time

http://www.economist.com/node/17723223 ON THE evening before All Saints’ Day in 1517, Martin Luther nailed 95 theses to the door of a church in Wittenberg. In those days a thesis was simply a position one wanted to argue. Luther, an Augustinian friar, asserted that Christians could not buy their way to heaven. Today a doctoral thesis is both an idea and an […]

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Online database unlocks secrets of English language

Check out: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/dec/16/google-tool-english-cultural-trends?INTCMP=SRCH Google creates a tool to probe ‘genome’ of English words for cultural trendsHarvard and Google say they have developed a way to identify cultural trends over the past 200 years using a database of 5m digitised books … How many words in the English language never make it into dictionaries? How has the nature of fame changed […]

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A 2nd 'Narrativity-Reflexivity' Session

As mentioned eearlier in this discussion area of the Doctoral Community blog, the first ‘Narrativity-Reflexivity’ gathering back in October seemed to have been enjoyable and of value. Therefore, we have raised the possibility of a follow-up 2nd session involving as many of our travelling, part-time and fll-time members of our community as possible. The most promising dates seem to be in the 2nd half […]

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SAGE Open article publishing

Hi All I have just received the following message which may be of interest to you also: SAGE is extending you a special invitation to be among the first to publish in SAGE Open – our new open access publication launching January 1, 2011. SAGE Open will publish peer-reviewed, original research and review articles in an interactive, open access format. […]

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Routledge Modern Language Association Article Collection

Routledge are offering free access to a selection of journal articles, which include some linguistic papers which may be of interest …  Routledge Modern Language Association Article Collection To coincide with the annual MLA convention due to take place next month in Los Angeles, we’ve put together a selection of journal articles and key books which tie in with the […]

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Researching Multilingualism

When we began work – e.g. the Narrative Matters conference paper (May ’10) and the Durham exploratory seminar (July ’10) – on the theme of researchers’ experience of ‘doing research multilingually’ (DRM), we were approached by the MOSAIC team in Birmingham who were exploring to some extent the same theme under the larger topic of Researching Multilingualism. Their project is advancing […]

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Bilingual bloggery

Francois Grosjean’s new blog on bilingualism Francois Grosjean, the author of Life with Two Languages, Studying Bilinguals, and Bilingual: Life and Reality, has started a new blog, “Life as a bilngual”, on the Psychology Today site. He has already uploaded the following posts: – Myths about bilingualism – Who is bilingual? – Bilingualism’s best kept secret: How extensive it is […]

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A blog on Bilingualism

Dear Friends and Colleagues, Just a word to tell you that I have accepted an invitation from Psychology Today to have a blog on bilingualism. I have entitled it, “Life as a Bilingual”. It is definitely for a general public, as you’ll see. But the more one demystifies bilingualism, the better, I feel. Here is the link: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/life-bilingual Thank you […]

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