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 [...]

An article in the Independent today reporting that black graduates are three times more likely to be unemployed than white graduates does not surprise me, though it saddens me. Contrary to popular belief, in the current climate a good education does not offer hardworking black graduates any indemnity against unemployment.

About a year ago a very good friend of mine who has since finished writing up his PhD thesis, excitedly told me one day how life-changing the process of undertaking a PhD was proving to be for him. At the time, as a fledgling doctoral researcher still in the throes of figuring out the full [...]