home cooked theory

Dismantling the home office

This weekend I took apart our home office. It’s the first step in reclaiming my life after finishing the book manuscript. In a tiny 2 bedroom apartment, there’s not much room in the first place. Why would I work in one of them? When clearly my study shows I can work in all of them? [...]

Press release for WfH project

This is the press release that went out today from the Sydney Uni media office. Thanks to Jackie Chowns for her work on this. Watch out for me on Sky news this afternoon (yes, you read that correctly!)
The much-touted “work/life balance” is shaping up to be riddled with paradox with new research [...]

Work’s Intimacy: Contents

I just sent off the manuscript that has been keeping me so anti-social. I am beside myself. I have no idea what my life will be like without this book weighing on my mind!
Below is the ToC. I have already sent some bits to a couple of you, but basically most of this is [...]

Why bother?

This semester I teach Arguing the Point: Research in Gender and Cultural Studies. It’s a graduate course for students writing a thesis for the first time and those new to our discipline. The classes are a mixture of themed discussion and practical workshops. A final “After 5″ hour focuses on research skills.
Tonight I’m spending [...]

So long so long

The Pixies close their set with “Where is my mind?” at the Horden Pavillion last night.

Last chapter

I am finally writing the last chapter of my book. It is the one called “Long hours, high bandwith: Negotiating domesticity at a distance”.
This chapter illustrates how office and home space are each transformed and rendered visible as ambient technologies allow a widening number of close companions throughout the working day. The “full time [...]

On topic

I hadn’t seen this before. Thanks to Acheron LV-426.

Please discuss

Graeme Turner, who is currently based at the Annenberg School, sent me this article the other day. It’s lucky I didn’t read it straight away, given my depress-o state lately. The letters the author talks about receiving from graduate students reminded me of emails I got last year after my New Matilda article came out, [...]

International Women’s Day

This afternoon the Women and Work Research Group at the University of Sydney held a special event for International Women’s Day. I was asked to present some of my research from the Working From Home study. Here is a copy of the text from my talk, and a powerpoint presentation for those interested in some [...]

Boo hoo blues

I went on holiday last month for the first time ever, I think, since I began working in academia. Of course, there have been lots of trips before – many that wouldn’t have happened without a job to pay for the airfare – but they have all involved work. The exceptions have been holidays spent [...]