Hi all

brief question. does anyone here know if like ESRC and other research council PhD studentships, if the post-doc grants or early career or initial start up grants are also just reserved for EU nationals? And bodies like British academy etc?

Thanks!

this is from Bhabha, a theorist, and was sent to me on Facebook as an instance of 'academese'. there may well be people here who enjoy reading such stuff...but for now...here's some academese for us to enjoy...

"If, for a while, the ruse of desire is calculable for the uses Of discipline soon the repetition of guilt, justification, pseudo-scientific theories, superstition, spurious authorities, and classifications can be seen as the desperate effort to 'normalize' formally the disturbance of a discourse of splitting that violates the rational, enlightened claims of its enunciatory modality."

Nice, no?

quick not to alice and rubyw, when I say 'hours', i completely mean productive hours. I am an incredibly focused person, I am also tremendously productive. I wouldn't say so myself did I not have concrete stuff, like papers, presentations, essays, and focused progress on the phd front to prove it.

Believe me, I am not a person who replaces productivity with hours spent on the laptop.

Thanks sleepy...all fantastic tips..

Having a very rough day, getting scared, and tense.

I guess I'll return to the forum a day or two later, I am somehow getting a weird sinking feeling as the challenges of this situation are hitting me. Brief instance: had a schol app to complete tonight, for sup to sign tomorrow. Couldn't finish it, totally jammed in the head. Had RA work to complete (stuff I usually dash of in an hour) couldn't complete.

It's so unlike me, isn't it to post dreary and gloomy and downbeat posts..Will return a day later perhaps, with a brighter perspective and a plan..though as Ruby says so correctly it's not just a question of the plan...the 'time' does exist in theory...Ruby I SO get you...

Thanks BHC :) Right now I am doing an RA ship for my sup. It's from home and/or work, no fixed hours. But from July, I dont know what I will do..this job ends in June.

No am not in the sciences. I like your 2 plus 2 idea.

I guess I am feeling very very demotivated now, as I am beginning to see fatigue and exhaustion creep into a PhD period that is already fraught with high ambitions (!) and a budget that just refuses to fit anything...

I'm sure things'll work out.with time...we get used to everything..after all..

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Guys,

Here's hoping you can give me some tips! Ok, as you may know, I pay overseas tuition and am working while doing a full time PhD. I am shifting to 20 hrs a week (3 days per week) of work from July. This is all non research work most prob (I love RA stuff!)



Not that I have an option, I HAVE to do 20 hrs. My question to you is this: Given my speed and focus, I find 4 hrs of PhD work, concentrated, every day, (p'haps a bit more on weekends) is enough for me. I read and synthesize very fast, and write a LOT.

I've been doing a lot of good work on my PhD till now, lovely things have been happening, but now, I am increasingly beginning to see WHY they say it's tough...it builds up over time, and then fatigue catches you.

Can you please give me any tips, on what may be the best way in which to manage my FOUR dedicated hours for myself every day? I can work late, I can wake up early. But I just need to figure out a way around this...


PS: Going part time is not an option for me, so that is out of the question.

Any help anyone?

Somehow I can't bring myself to typing a reply unless your question shows some kind of commitment, awareness, information etc...

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I do this.And I do 9 hrs a week .. From July I ll do 20 hrs a week but that's other stuff...not research...

It's tough to manage and you may feel that. But then, you pull yourself together and look at the wonders it does to your CV.


Good luck

I meet mine every 14 days with a 3000 word submission 4 days before the supervision, and each supervision is for an hour. That's absolutely more than enough. And mine is in touch with me almost daily by email, albeit about other things (I work on her project, or my CV stuff, or my writing or general stuff like books and scholars etc).

once a week may actually be counterproductive. She shan't have time to read what you write, you wont have time to read or think stuff that's useful and to quote my sup "the project is supposed to move ahead with every supervision"

Good luck.

I have a question! How many versions does a chapter go through in all usually? And does your sup read every version?

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(sigh) tempted to post yet again after abandoning the thread. Yes, too often, humour/live and let live/comedy is used as an appropriate garb to legitimise problenatic attitudes. That's what critical scholars would have to say (for instance, the literature on sexist or homophobic or classist comedy genres, where the scholarship cannot possibly adopt a "oh it's all just for fun attitude"). And lest I be misinterpreted and cause 5 more posts on this, I am not equating offensive content with the post here, I am just saying that "oh it's all just a general comment, or it's just a joke, or it's not really something I'd DO"...these arguments are perhaps problematic.

I agree, it is not something that can be moderated. Look around us...and see how difficult it is to pinpoint what counts as 'offence' and what is offensive to whom and why. the BBC seems to be struggling for instance to decide what offends whom, after the very eventful last two years with offensive content coming up in comedy or reality tv.


But as a forum for debate, what has happened below is I think, not 'bickering'. People have used personal to broader societal instances to argue a point that certain attitudes towards gender stereotypes are problematic. That is fine, I think.

There's much on this topic, including a brief viva thread as well as other ones. Pl do a forum search and you'll get plenty of info

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Saying that is a completely different thing than getting gender into the picture and then stuff like having the option of getting pregnant and have someone cover your arse...

anyway,,,

I would suggest we perhaps stop trying to explain these things Smilodon, Lim all others..I dont think BHC quite gets it.

I am not married, don't have children, in my early twenties and have not experienced any of this. But despite that, the moment BHC made the comments, I could immediately think of my working mum, aunts, and non-'working' stay-at-home friends mums or other relatives. And well..it's even bizarre that people can assume the things they do.

I come from a so called 'developing' country, but from a pretty exceptionally academic/liberal home. My mum was feeding me as an infant when she had to take up a lectureship in a distant rural town, far away from the city where we lived. She used to stay away from me, her infant, 4 days a week, to do the job, and still earned less than one-third of my dad at the time. I grew into a cranky toddler, used to tie my mothers clothes into my little finger in a knot and slept beside her on Sundays, so she couldnt take the early train on Mondays, but when I woke up she was gone..till thursday..I refused to eat from carers, grandparents, got high eye power, and was a scrawny, miserable kid. she did her PhD while pregnant, and while I was born, and mamaged the household, 'jobless' till before she took up this monstrous job.

I'm wondering...who was supporting whom? (my dad's wonderful btw)..but seriously, was it just 'dad' who was supporting that system then? No. Not at all.

Some things, I see, like some male attitudes are similar, wherver we go...isn't it...