Monday, 18 May 2015

The academic parent #5 – the aftermath

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It has now been about five weeks since I finished full time paternity leave, looking after my daughter when my wife went back to work after...
Wednesday, 18 March 2015

Some thoughts on the UCL “Is Science Broken” debate

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[Disclaimer: This was written the day after the event, and I took no notes. If I have misrepresented the opinions of any of the panel membe...
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Monday, 16 March 2015

The academic parent #4 - things wot I learned

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A brief list of things I have learnt in the space of less than a week: Looking after your child on a daily basis is tiring. One day, it...
Wednesday, 11 March 2015

The academic parent #3 – the return of paternity leave

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Today I am back on paternity leave. My daughter is nine months old and my wife has returned to work. Rather than send our daughter straight...
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Tuesday, 10 March 2015

The academic parent #2 – work-life balance

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A recent article in Nature nicely highlighted some of the difficulties associated with juggling both work and parenting responsibilities w...
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Friday, 9 January 2015

The academic parent #1 - guilt and multiple personalities

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Preamble I plan to blog occasionally about being an academic and a parent. I’m not entirely sure what form this is going to take. I’ll ...
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Wednesday, 18 June 2014

My Negative CV

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I present to you my negative CV. Rather than list all my successes (as I do here) , here I’m listing all the jobs I haven’t been offere...