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Planning and padding

After a quick trip home to Hobart last week, I’ve spent today trying to take stock of the many, many projects I seem to have on the boil. It looks as though I’ll be talking at this conference a couple of days before AoIR kicks off, so September is going to be a busy month. [...]

Book progress

Woo. Just found out from the commissioning editor my book is going to be published before the end of September - in the UK anyway, but still… This means it will exist in time for the launch, which has recently been confirmed as part of the schedule for the CSAA conference this December. The panel [...]

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 [...]

Getting organised

Filling out the CRN nomination and contemplating the prospects for ongoing employment last week have me feeling super anal about getting my affairs in order. I’ve just updated a bunch of stuff on my work homepage (check out the ‘research‘, ‘publications‘ and ‘MACS‘ pages) which led me in a bout of inspiration just now to [...]

Web editor job

Research Assistant (Level 5) to the Web Editor of the Cultural Studies Association of Australasia (3 July 2006 to 25 June 2007).
Expressions of interest are sought for a casual research assistant position to support the Web Editor in maintaining the CSAA web site. We are seeking a Cultural Studies postgraduate with at least basic [...]

Postgraduate Forum, Melbourne

‘Life after the PhD: Publishing, Grant Writing and Employment Advice for Women’s and Gender Studies graduates’
Date: Sunday 9 July 2006
Location: Hotel Y, 498 Elizabeth St, Melbourne (same as AWSA conference)
Cost: Free for registered AWSA conference delegates, $10 for non-delegates
The purpose of this forum is to:
* Enable postgraduates from different universities who are doing feminist research [...]

End of semester MACS

In ‘The Mental Labour Problem’, Andrew Ross argues that ‘two generations of scholars now form a semipermanent cadre of independent contractors, with little or no prospect of advancement into regular, full-time employment’ in academic positions. For these scholars, a doctoral qualification has marked ‘not the beginning, but the end of their teaching career; they are [...]

Good news

The Cultural Research Network that runs out of a couple of offices right near mine has recently voted in five new members at early stages in their career. I was very excited to find out I’m one of them, but I’m even more so now that I know Kate and Clif have been voted in [...]

Change of plans

I haven’t written much lately - firstly because there is an exciting new updated blog design on the way and I have been looking forward to coming back new and improved (no pressure, Nick!). But also I’ve been a bit reticent to say that I’ve had to pull out of going to the Crossroads in [...]

Graeme Turner named Federation Fellow

This is going to make things fun around here. Hopefully we can now crack the champagne in the work fridge! Details about the project are here.

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