#phdlife… Impressions and Ideas: April Conference Season!

April has been a busy month, with three conferences, an impending deadline for my Year Two confirmation review, and a push to get new primary source research completed on a new chapter that I’m working on. The three conferences that I attended were all quite different in their scope, reach and topics covered, but all

Resolutions: one month on.

Back at the end of December I wrote about some academic New Year’s resolutions and goals. Sitting by the fire on this bright and cold early February afternoon, I re-read the post and was actually quite pleased with the progress I have made over the past month. One of main resolutions was to get writing,

To the coming times…(30 December 2012)

As 2012 draws to a close, it’s time to start thinking about what the coming year will bring, and the different goals that need to be working towards in that time. I’m really excited for the New Year, it’s going to be busy and potentially manic at times, particularly around April… In no particular order,