Hi Rachel-Ann, congratulations on passing your viva! How does it feel?! Thank you, it feels dreamlike to be honest and I know that sounds so cliché… But the momentum of it all, the pace, the energy, the excitement and everything that came with the Viva… I feel like it was not anything that anyone could describe to […]
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A few months ago, I was accepted at the Beyond Borders internal research conference, that was held at BCU on the 7th of July, and I was asked to present my research in an out-of-the-ordinary way. So after thinking about ways of conveying my research aim and outcomes in a meaningful way without using the usual PowerPoint […]
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An anonymous blog post by a current PhD student … Start a blog, they said at the beginning, you need to write every day. Not a problem. Writing, it seems, has become my life, from partial ideas jotted down in numerous hardback notebooks to the never-ending task of ‘writing up’. What a thought! Am I […]
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Hi Simon, congratulations on passing your viva! How does it feel?! A real mixture of emotions: happiness and elation of course, but also a strange mix of anti-climax, sadness and “what on earth do I do now?” What was your PhD title? Cloud Triptych: an exploration of stochastic movement between discrete musical behaviours. […]
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Experimental Approaches to Writing Research workshop | 9th June 2017 | organised by Sarah Raine and Craig Hamilton, Birmingham School of Media It was a dark and stormy night… (scratch that) …day. They came: bleary eyed yet still expectant to the #bestroomintheplace to write. To experiment. To work (they assumed, somewhat wearily). Free lunch, free wine, new ideas […]
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Hi Rommany, congratulations on passing your viva! How does it feel?! It’s a great feeling – although part of me can’t quite believe it has happened. I did my PhD part-time so it has been a long time coming. What was your PhD title? The origin and role of sospiro (sigh) in the poetry […]
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