Tag Archives: research
Do what you do well already, but in public: thoughts on academic communication and knowledge exchange
By On 2015/01/24

Not the public engagement that you SHOULD do, rather what you CAN do without much added effort.

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I (mostly) work for free: academic reality
By On 2015/01/08

Dear students: academics work for free. A lot. More than anyone tells you.

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How not to talk about the future: mid-stage early career researcher here
By On 2014/09/30

As some of you know I am on a 3 year post doc. I am one month into year 3….

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PhD fieldwork advice? Give up when things are bad and mess around
By On 2014/06/01

I have just participated in a workshop entitled Doing Fieldwork in Latin America at the University of Glasgow. I was…

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High Crimes: Studying the Illicit Antiquities Trade in the Bolivian Andes (Day of Archaeology)
By On 2013/07/27

Yesterday I participated in the Day of Archaeology. I and several hundred others like me wrote about what our life…

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“Plunder to Preservation” from the Oxford University Press (with chapter by me!)
By On 2013/06/07

From Plunder to Preservation Britain and the Heritage of Empire, c.1800-1940, Edited by Astrid Swenson and Peter Mandler, ”takes a novel…

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Update: Location, Research and Ideas
By On 2012/06/17

Although I don’t particularly like this blog to swing into the personal, I have been told by a person wiser…

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