In a recent blog post I shared advice I have been given from more established academic friends and associates who emphasised the need to be published in academic journals and to present at conferences in order to build your reputation within the academic community. This week at a two-day teaching workshop for media and

On Tuesday 8 May 2012 I took part in a studio discussion on BBC Breakfast which you can watch on YouTube by clicking on the link. Whilst it was great that the BBC covered this topic, obviously television has time constraints, so here I will elaborate further on points raised during the programme. In the [...]

The ink is not even dry on my PhD thesis – I’m still working on it and yet here I am in the second year of my PhD research project and I’m planning journal articles! I recently submitted an abstract for my first journal article and I’m waiting to hear, with some trepidation whether it [...]