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PhD Researcher Seeks Actors / Budding Actors For Film Project (Pavel Prokopic)
This is a call-out from NWCDTP AHRC PhD researcher, Pavel Prokopic. He is looking for actors. The suggestion is not that you abandon your PhD studies and chase Hollywood stardom (tempting though that might feel at times) but rather that you may know someone who could...
Setting up a postgraduate journal – the admin and the pay-offs / Seán Hewitt
Back in the summer of 2015, I had a sudden realisation that there was no postgraduate journal for my subject area (Irish Studies). Now, although there were ones for history, languages, politics and literature (the four main components of the Irish Studies department),...
Thesis Writing / You Never Step Into The Same River Twice (Pete Kalu)
This thesis chaptering. I’ve re-arranged it umpteen times. Each time the feel is different, the emphases shift. No arrangement so far has felt remotely satisfactory. What to do? Like those portraits whose eyes follow you across the room, I see the same problem...
High Heels, Clogs Or Espadrilles? A Walk Through Your PhD Social Profile (Pete Kalu)
I recently delivered a short session (with Christina @CongoMuse Fonthes ) on social profile for NWCDTP researchers. It focused on how to set up and use wordpress, twitter and facebook accounts – their different strengths and weaknesses. There were a few questions that...
Flowers & Shoes: Why I’ve Always Got Two Projects On The Go (Pete Kalu)
While researching literary approaches to consciousness and time, I came across an article by Burkhard Bilger on David Eagleman, the neuroscientist interested in the nature of time.* Eagleman, a modern-day horologist, has been interested in how time slows in moments...
The Art of Islamic Pattern: Study trip to Istanbul – Supported by the NWCDTP Student Development Fund
Lesley Halliwell (PhD student at MIRIAD, Manchester Metropolitan University)My PhD research is a practice based enquiry that investigates the interplay between the outer public layer of an artwork and its inward facing components; in fact, some of you may already have...
Clinging To Cliffs: NWCDTP Conference 2015 Sketch (Pete Kalu)
You are hanging on to the cliff face by your fingertips. What to do? Luckily you were at the NWCDTP Conference 2015 and so you know you have options. You recall the sessions and they influence you in ways both oblique and direct:Feel with your feet, perhaps there are...
What To Pack For Conferences: A Guide For Poor Post-Grads (Pete Kalu)
Are you a broke Post-Grad planning to travel to the 12th/13th October 2015 NWCDTP Conference? https://artsandhumanitiespgconference.wordpress.com/conference-programme-and-registration/Here’s some helpful tips on what to packA plug for the baths at bargain-basement...
Conference Anticipation- Shelley Farrar
As you probably already know, registration is up and running for the Arts and Humanities Postgraduate Conference: https://artsandhumanitiespgconference.wordpress.com/conference-programme-and-registration/As part of the student committee organising the event, I have...
Everything About The 1st Year Of My PhD, Reduced To 500 Words (Pete Kalu)
You ever see those Formula One cars on their warm up lap, how they waggle their tyres, zipping sideways across the track, warming up to make sure they don't crash and burn? That’s how it felt starting my practice-based research PhD in Creative Writing: I found myself...