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  1. School Libraries in Lowland Scotland, 1750-1850

    This update first appeared in a condensed version for the University of Stirling's Arts & Humanities postgraduate page here. Here is a little more about my recent archival research and a forthcoming chapter for the 'Edinburgh History of Reading: A World Survey from Antiquity to Present' (eds. Mary Hammond &…

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  2. Academic Social Media: Twitter

    I've recently returned to Twitter having taken a bit of an extended break from it and having been back for a while now, I have been wondering what kind of role I'd like Twitter to play in my academic (and personal) life. My Twitter break happened almost by accident. My…

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  3. The Evolution of a PhD

    Image from PhD comics which, if you haven't read it before, is an excellent source of procrastination! So it's been nearly a year since my upgrade interview for the PhD after which I made some ambitious New Academic Year Resolutions. This past year has both gone very slowly and very…

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  4. My PhD Summer

    So it's really been a while since I last blogged here! I've been juggling quite a few different things the past few months. Between finishing up the second year of my PhD and wedding planning, blogging has fallen by the wayside a little but I have a bit of extra…

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  5. Internships and the PhD

    There's often a lot of pressure on doctoral students to gain wider experiences outside of the PhD itself, whether that's teaching or conference organisation, and increasingly, given the competitive nature of the academic job market, that also involves work experience in industry. With this in mind the Scottish Graduate School…

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