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 of teaching at the UniversityContinue reading “University of Exeter Students’ Guild Teaching Awards 2015”
Category Archives: value
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 the qualities of excellence thatContinue reading “The Secret History by Donna Tartt – an investigation into a novel about studying the humanities (and murder!)”
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 to others. I spend aContinue reading “How to Give up / Quit Facebook – how to live in social oblivion and still be happy.”
Conference Paper from ‘Theorising the Popular’ Conference at Liverpool Hope
This post is a copy of a paper which I gave at my very first conference this summer. It was part of the fourth international Theorizing the Popular Conference held at Liverpool Hope University(details here). I am pleased to have given my first paper and include it in full. As a result of being designedContinue reading “Conference Paper from ‘Theorising the Popular’ Conference at Liverpool Hope”
Christopher Frayling and the Future of Funding in the Arts
Firstly, an Apology… Summer holidays and moving into my first home has left this blog neglected.No more – new term enthusiasm has returned, and therefore this post is to catch up on those lost summer months. On that note… The Brilliant Cultural Value Iniative: I wrote this reporter style piece for the Cultural Value IniativeContinue reading “Christopher Frayling and the Future of Funding in the Arts”
Zoe Bulaitis 