So I’m attending my first academic conference as a PhD Researcher. This one is very much a ‘home’ affair as its the Birmingham University Forest Institutes (BIFoR) Annual Conference (link). As Forest Edge Scholars we’re all preparing academic posters outlining our research. As PhD students with less than six months experience this research is limited...
I think starting a PhD is probably different for everyone. That’s sort of the point, that you are on a unique journey that identifies (hopefully) new, original knowledge or understanding about something. There are probably a lot of similarities in the PhD path, but I can’t really describe those. Perhaps if you’re in a team working on a project, then...
I am meant to be writing up a short piece on the landscape research I’ve been studying over the last few weeks. This follows on from two months of landscape / flood management / farming / forestry literature research which is forming the first part of my PhD. I will do two things next week: write a blog post on the first three months of a PhD (mine,...
There was a point during my first term’ when a colleague suggested that, perhaps, students with dyslexia and dyspraxia just didn’t study social sciences. On sitting the January exam and discovering that I was the only student in that years cohort with ‘special needs’ I started thinking that she might be right and I might have made a really stupid decision....
Is the arrogance of Frankenstein his greatest crime? Are we at risk of forcing scientists today to stand on the same pedestal? Many debates have been had about what Mary Shelley was trying to tell us when she wrote the celebrated horror about the eponymous scientist and his ‘Creation’. In ‘Love your Monsters’ Bruno Latour argues that Frankesteins...
Many of us have grown up with Space Science raised high on a pedestal; the pinnacle of humankinds achievements. I, for one, never really questioned this. And yet when I read an article juxtaposing Elon Musks airy aspirations with problems on earth, right here, right now – I had to change my mind. I’m not saying we shouldn’t fund space. But I am arguing...
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