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  University of Exeter Students’ Guild Teaching Awards 2015

  Photo: Exeter Student’s Guild  This year I was shortlisted for ‘Best Postgraduate Teacher’ at the University of Exeter Student’s Guild Teaching Awards. These Awards were the first of this kind to be established in the UK (2009) and remains the largest in the country. Over 1 million words in praise…

  May 6, 2015
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  The Secret History by Donna Tartt – an investigation into a novel about studying the humanities (and murder!)

  Recently I read Tartt’s “The Secret History and was impressed by the handling of a bunch of pretentious teenagers studying Julian Morrow’s exclusive (and doubtless uppity) Greek Classics class. The Guardian well summarises the reasons that you should read this book right now, and so I will spend little time repeating…

  April 27, 2015
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  How to Give up / Quit Facebook – how to live in social oblivion and still be happy.

  Today I have made a decision that I am no longer going to consider myself as an active participant or user of Facebook. Ironically, perhaps, I feel the need to share this on the internet but hope that the thinking I have done around this may be of some value…

  April 17, 2015