Academia – Page 14 – My Conversations

04/03/2019

Academia Broke My Brain

My twitter time line is full of threads about mental health in academia, I am thinking about my own mental health a lot and about the limits of what is and isn’t possible or acceptable, I am running the London Marathon for Mind…., there are mental health initiatives everywhere – about talking to each other,… Continue reading

Higher Education Generally, Uncategorized

Academia, Academics, Mental Health, resilience

20/08/2018

A pretty big day

Today is a pretty big day. No, it’s not a special occasion, I have in fact done very little and nothing has happened – but it is still a big day. I started working in the HE sector some time in August 2004. Ever since that day I have not taken all of my annual… Continue reading

Higher Education Generally, Uncategorized

Academia, Academics, annual leave, holiday, Mental Health, university

27/07/2017

Running through Footnotes

Footnotes is a remarkable book. Let’s start with that. As I plodded along at my slower than ‘politicians run marathons’ pace (see later in the post) last night I was thinking about the review I wanted to write. I didn’t really know whether it should go on my running blog or my academic blog so… Continue reading

Reviews, Uncategorized

Academia, book reivew, Footnotes, Running, Vybarr Cregan-Reid