The Fairfax Curator
Blog: Oct 2016 - Present
Somewhere along the way I became an irritable, menopausal, disabled woman with a stack of feminist books and a lot to say. This was as much a surprise to me as it was to anybody. After medical retirement and a couple of years lost to sleep and inertia, I started wondering…what now? Eventually, I started writing down some of my adventures as a full-time hobbyist and creative. Mainly because I can.
So…let’s take the gloves off, and chat about the creative process. A blog exploring everything from education and art, to literature and gaming, shaped by lived experience and disability.
You Can Write A Postgraduate Dissertation
The second academic year dawned and I was back to positivity! I was back at work, I had submitted everything required of me, and there was just a dissertation preparation document to submit, how hard could it be?
Dragging Yourself to the Finish Line of Postgraduate Research
By the latter part of the 2019 academic year, I was too ill to climb the stairs in my house, was on extended sick leave from work, had reached the realisation that I could not handle the course, and probably needed to begin the steps necessary to quit. Secretly, I was still convincing myself that I was probably okay.
Postgraduate Research When You Think You Can’t
Finding something you really want to study.
Research For Teaching Others! - Part Two
This post opens early in 2009, halfway through a new teaching course and the start of a new job role working with family and in education.
Research For Teaching Others! - Part One
One area of PGCert study within the PhD is based around the examination of assumptions, and really how almost everything in terms of your research question is arguably an assumption.
Research is not conducted on the moon…
Was there a problem in Education, or was I just an anger monkey?
Where does an interest in research even come from??
For the first time ever, the simple fact that I was a bit clever did not magically do the trick, and I did not saunter through with the grades required for my UCAS-submitted chosen degree course at the University of Sheffield.
An Academically Minded Rambling
The thoughts of someone with a bone to pick in Education, following some of my major experiences of research after a life in the sector from 1996 to 2021.
Learning Digital Learning
I decided a couple of weeks ago to try my hand at crochet. So, while on holiday last week, I figured hey, just bite the bullet. Let’s learn digitally!
Digital Hauntings by Digital Humans
This blog post, just a link, was my first foray into Digital Literacy, which led me to my MA, and then to my short postgraduate book on gamification.
Bram Stoker Lives On
t’s the week before Halloween, and all through England… where better to be than Whitby, North Yorkshire, with the black-outfitted lovers of gothic dread!
Check Out Slammerkin
It All Begins Here. I added this blog post, because I think it was my first ever public book review. Wildly, I have no memory of writing or posting it. Years later, I completed a Year of Reading.
