phd – Leah Williams Veazey

Academic hyperbole & new student inductions

This is the second of three posts, copied from my tumblr, where I have been blogging intermittently about my return to academia. This was written in March 2015. I’ll never forget my first week at university when my Director of Studies told us that to be successful in our degree, we would need to live andContinue reading “Academic hyperbole & new student inductions”

Re-entering the ivory tower

I’m going to start this blog with a couple of posts from my tumblr, which is where I started blogging about my new life in academia, or rather my reconnection with academia. This post was written in February 2015. Nearly twelve years stand between now – the start of my PhD years – and theContinue reading “Re-entering the ivory tower”