The Plashing Vole

At some point I'll return to using Plashing Vole as a dart board for my arrows of opinion (perhaps having grown a beard for a few weeks...

I took a long time to finish my Ph.D. I won't rehearse the litany of excuses reasons here, but suffice it to say that I endured the ...

Just for fun, there's a Rate My Thesis: Hot or Not page. Go there, vote on my PhD , which was titled ‘Constructions of Masculinity in F...

If you were one of my students this year, you'll have been exposed to the delights of Welsh literature written in English: Lewis Jones, ...

Emory University asked their PhD students to translate their research into 100 words understandable by ordinary people. It's a tough ca...

(Or in English, post-graduate study). A while back, I posted this short movie about doing a PhD in English. It's all completely true,...

If you have a master's degree and an interest in new media, surveillance and user labour, you really should apply for this PhD at Uppsa...

If so, don't read this . It's American, so the figures and comparisons aren't entirely relevant, but the general trend is accura...

Congratulations to Daniel J Pedley, formerly know as Deep Pan Dan, who has today handed in his PhD on human/wildlife urban interaction or so...

I'm pretty lazy. Sometimes, I can flog myself until I do some work, and on some of those occasions, I can manage something decent. Somet...

My former PhD supervisor is an expert on e-learning, and will be blogging regularly on the Higher Education Academy's site about the joy...

I've got a lot of marking to do today, so I've rewarded myself with treats. Having managed 40 lengths in 27 minutes (backstroke), I ...