What’s it about? My Geographies of Enthusiasm 3rd year undergraduate module so far…
Whilst the module handbook exists complete with references, I am writing the module week by week. So far, the first four weeks have played out as follows…
About a PhD: is it a bad romance?
I’ve been trying to keep up with the ongoing Twitter, Facebook, newspaper, discussion forum, coffee room discussion around doing a PhD, its implications for our individual and collective mental health and the job prospects (for example: Dark thoughts: why mental illness is on the rise in academia) These discussions are not new but in the…
Undergraduate Geography Dissertations
The release of the A-level and GCSE results has got me thinking back to my schooldays. I was never particularly good at exams at school or degree-level, something to do with not being able to get the information in my brain onto the page without having to restart the exam questions 3 times. But set…
“regain enthusiasm for geography” – I almost shed a tear…
After several weeks of nose to the grindstone, I have finally come up for air this week and taken the opportunity to update my blog. This is a new year’s resolution and like the other one I made I really hope it lasts longer than 10 days. WordPress.com blogs have a great feature that allows…
The Culture of Enthusiasm 