home cooked theory

Working from Home

Actually, I’m not today… leaving my new flatmate (!!) some room to move in and hopefully not catch my Splendour in the Grass-induced headcold. However, I have just sent off my first ever paper on the ‘working from home’ project for peer review, having finally finished it in time for the masterclass yesterday. I’m keen [...]

NB. Don’t leave

So where the bloody hell are you?

Academics’ blogs

For the upcoming AoIR conference, I’m expanding the project I began in ‘Feeling Ordinary: Blogging as Conversational Scholarship’ to look at blogs that talk explicitly about academic life – the day to day banalities of teaching, doing research, getting ahead and getting along with colleagues. You can read the abstract for the paper here. Some [...]

Cultural methodologies masterclass

If you’re in Brisbane, apparently there are still some spaces left for this masterclass with Georgina Born. I’ve been selected to give one of the presentations in the afternoon session, so I’m keen to get lots of clever people to come along to give me tips for my new project! It’s a really great opportunity [...]

Calendar girls

Just got back from Melbourne after four days at the 21st Century Feminisms conference. Interestingly, this story broke the morning I gave my paper, providing a delightfully timely discussion prop on top of my already formidable number of visuals showing ladies using IT at work (or not, as the case may be). The discussion at [...]

Catch more bees with honey

I can safely say I know a lot more about the used car market today than I did a month ago. The upshot of this is that I think I got a bargain selling my car this morning for 100 bucks, not the 70 I was offered, or the thousand that the optimistic mobile mechanic [...]

New Splendour Tickets

Just got this in my inbox: Splendour In The Grass organisers can announce that a FINAL, STRICTLY LIMITED, ONLINE ONLY general release ticket sale will take place this FRIDAY JULY 7TH. Splendour organisers offered refunds on tickets up until last Friday, June 30th. Refunded tickets then went into a special release of tickets to Byron [...]

Abstract written

Following Mel’s lead, here is the paper I proposed for the Canberra conference, part of a panel submission with Kate Crawford and Will Tregoning. The panel title, hastily negotiated via Skype late Friday, is “We Work Hard For the Money: Cultural Studies and/of Work.” On Friday Night Drinks: Neoliberalism’s Compulsory Friends In the final season [...]

Last one out, turn off the lights

A few weeks ago my PhD student Ian used this phrase to sum up the sheer number of people he knew leaving Brisbane. As someone who still feels like I only just got here, I didn’t relate to it very much at the time, and given how much we hear in the media about Brisbane [...]