Carry On Up the Greasy Pole

You're in for a real treat today. I'm live-blogging from Aston University's lakeside conference centre, attending a conference on how to keep my job. I mean of course, how to plan an academic career. I'm with three other Wolverhampton teachers, so of course we're sitting at the back being sarcastic and munching pork scratchings. Our leaders here are virtually all white men, so the institutional conservatism of academia is clearly on my side!

I'll be counting clichés ('on the runway' has already appeared) and 'networking' - a term which makes me nauseous. Oh well, perhaps I'll meet glamorous single academics…