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The New Groves of Academe | musingfrommanchester
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The thoughts of an MMU PhD student…. February 7, 2014. The New Groves of Academe. The restructuring inspired by NM and NPM have significant and long-term consequences for academic communities. I would argue, uncontroversially (? That the promotion of digital media is one of those consequences. Krull, W. (2010). Beyond the Ivory Tower: Some Observations on External Funding of Interdisciplinary Research in Universities. In Nico Stehr and Peter Weingart eds. University of Toronto Press, pp.260-270. Knowledg...
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Citizen Journalism | musingfrommanchester
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The thoughts of an MMU PhD student…. November 4, 2013. Today I gave a guest lecture through at Liverpool John Moores University. On ‘Citizen Journalism’ – an extremely fascinating and more or less recent. I’m making my slides available here. So please feel free to download them and let me know what your own views are. The embedded version below might have a few formatting glitches – apologies! Click the options button for notes. Many thanks to Dr Iqbal Akthar. Laquo; Previous post. Next post ». This blog...
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Damned Lies and Statistics? | musingfrommanchester
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The thoughts of an MMU PhD student…. August 28, 2013. Damned Lies and Statistics? Recently, I’ve started to analyse data gathered via the online questionnaire which is central to my thesis. Essentially, software for undertaking both basic and complex statistical analyses) and a copy of Julie Pallant’s SPSS Survival Manual. Let’s just say that adjusting my research questions into something that will conform with the mystical world of dependent and independent variables is an intriguing process. ...Contrar...
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The Sublime and the Ridiculous | musingfrommanchester
https://musingfrommanchester.com/2013/10/10/the-sublime-and-the-ridiculous
The thoughts of an MMU PhD student…. October 10, 2013. The Sublime and the Ridiculous. Going to the theatre is a special event for me, so two trips in as many weeks is a definite rarity – not least because I see so many movies that it can be easy to forget about the altogether different joys and techniques of live stage performance. Last weekend I was through at the Lowry in Salford for a production of Willy Russell’s 80s classic Educating Rita. The Hitchhiker’s Guide Radio Show. In many ways, Rita’...
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