[Shortcut to the poem mentioned in this blog: Border Butter] This blog is part of a short series documenting 5 days of activities at the British School at Rome, supported by my funders, Northern Bridge DTP. If you’ve missed out so far, try out details from Day 1, Day 2, Day 3 or Day 4! And so … Continue reading Five Days in Rome (Day 5)
Five Days in Rome (Day 4)
This blog is part of a short series documenting 5 days of activities at the British School at Rome, supported by my funders, Northern Bridge DTP. If you've missed out so far, try out details from Day 1, Day 2 or Day 3! Day 4 was all about art in the process of becoming, the … Continue reading Five Days in Rome (Day 4)
Five Days in Rome (Day 3)
This is Day 3 of five days visiting Rome for the Northern Bridge Winter School. I'm very lucky that Northern Bridge provides me with funding that means I can do a PhD. I'm in year one of that. Along with about 14 colleagues, we are at the British College in Rome. If you missed … Continue reading Five Days in Rome (Day 3)
Five Days in Rome (Day 2)
This is the second of 5 short blogs describing my visit to Rome as part of the Northern Bridge Winter School. If you'd like to start with Day 1, click here... Day 2 (Tuesday) dawned with a sky full of colours behind the screen window. I was so tired, I woke really early again, but with so … Continue reading Five Days in Rome (Day 2)
Five Days in Rome (Day 1)
Ciao tutti! Welcome to a short series of daily blogs from the centre of Roma! I'm very excited to be here and already exhausted and saturated with new ideas and glimpses of knowledge. Some of you may know that I'm away for this week in Rome courtesy of Northern Bridge, the body through which my … Continue reading Five Days in Rome (Day 1)
The Writing Groove
I've been thinking about writing a post for a few weeks. It's not the one I intended to write. It has been 3.5 months since I started a PhD at Queen's University, Belfast and everything is about writing. I've been on writing courses, I've submitted pieces to be assessed and learned how to handle positive … Continue reading The Writing Groove
The Everydayness of Living to Work…
Living to Work, Working to Live... I'm unsure who coined that pithy phrase but it captures, in its own imperfect way, the dilemma many of us feel about the position of work in our lives; lives for which we have high expectations which 'work', most often, defies with its very everydayness. The very suggestion of … Continue reading The Everydayness of Living to Work…
