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Tag Archives: academic
REF and romance (Rousse)
It was meant to be a discussion of what I could contribute to our Research Excellence Framework (REF) submission. It soon turned into a passionate snog. I adjusted my silk petticoat and ran across the room to lock the office … Continue reading
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Tagged academic, admirer, companion, discussion, door, interruption, lock, lunch, months, office, passion, petiticoat, publications, REF, REF2014, Research Excellence Framework, romance, room, secret, silk, snog, wife
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Man wins free Sky TV subscription in Somerset village hall raffle (Rousse)
My ambition was to earn a degree in fine art. The first step to my new career was to return to the sixth form to embark on a one-year foundation course. So I applied to join the Bath and Wells … Continue reading
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Tagged academic, ambition, application, apply, art, Bath and Wells, career, children, college, course, cousin, cousins, degree, event, farm, fine art, foundation, fund-raising, hall, man, parties, preparation, preparations, preparing, raffle, school, sixth form, sky, social, Somerset, strangers, subscription, television, TV, village, year
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Teenaged tutors at the University of Oxford (Rousse)
It was festival time in Edinburgh and celebrities were everywhere. When we passed a BBC van my niece BMcC recognised a famous drama director and Oxford academic. As B was a keen actress herself, and planning to take up a … Continue reading
Detention for a naughty school girl (Rousse)
GW and I sat up at the front of the minibus next to the driver – a 15 year-old blonde girl dressed in her pale blue school uniform. While I fiddled with my camera settings in an attempt to keep … Continue reading
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Tagged academic, arms, blonde, business, camera, changing, chat, child, dashboard, detention, DLSR, driver, Europe, girl, gym, holiday, light, minibus, model, naughty, obstruction, Olympic, outstretched, plastic, pool, punishment, pupil, road, room, school, senior, swimmer, teacher, uniform, university, warning, white
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Rousse shares some website design tips
My friend proudly unveiled the freshly pressed website for her new online business. What a disaster! Given that her business was built up around the concept of selling coloured craft materials, it made no sense at all that she had … Continue reading
Rousse sees off a rival
PC and I were finally reunited after thirty-one years apart, and I was delighted. We had known one another since aged 7 at primary school right up to the point that we took our A levels in 1981. Now PC … Continue reading
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Tagged A level, A levels, academic, artist, artists, arts, charity, college, common room, conversation, design, disaster, Edinburgh, interaction design, London, panic, primary, project, rival, school, suitor, wink
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IBM presentation fails to win over academics (Rousse)
The organisers had made a terrible mistake in bringing together this bunch of rude, disobedient ego-maniacs. They had been locked up for a week at this luxury hotel to work collaboratively on developing innovative research proposals, but since their arrival … Continue reading
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Tagged academic, academics, admissions, audience, boo, catalogue, climax, computing, disobedient, ego-maniac, ego-maniacs, expense, friend, hardware, hiss, history, homesick, hotel, IBM, library, man, mistake, mother, organiser, organisers, performance, pet, presentation, proposal, proposals, records, research, rude, school, server, son, tax, tax payer, tax payers, university
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Rousse’s new job
I’d never before applied for an academic job where all short-listed candidates were interviewed together. The panel comprised two well-respected academics: the Pro-Vice-Chancellor of an English university, who – quite out of character – had turned bad cop for the … Continue reading
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Tagged academia, academic, academics, art, bacon, bad cop, boss, campus, candidates, Chinese, Christmas, competition, dilemma, dining room, driving, family, father, Friends, Glasgow, Glasgow University, Heriot-Watt, interview, job, kitchen, leadership, Manchester, mother, niece, panel, position, post, Pro-Vice-Chancellor, questions, resignation, romantic, short list, short-listed, Stockton-on-Tees, stuffing, turkey, university, University of Glasgow, Victorian, White House
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Rousse’s real parents
So now I knew the reasons why I looked nothing like either of my two sisters, and my parents clammed up whenever the topic of genetics came up in conversation. AP confessed to me that back in 1962 he embarked … Continue reading
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Tagged academic, adopt, adoption, adoptive, affair, baby, bowls, calendar, candidate, candidates, community, daughter, family, fruit, genetics, healthcare, ice-cream, ill, Internet, kitchen, librarian, new-born, Newcastle, news, Online, paper, parent, parents, postgraduate, sister, sisters, student, students, table, university
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Digital media experts flummoxed by musical suitcase (Rousse)
What fun: at last KA and I had wangled things so that we were both heading to the same conference! Ahead of us lay two days of academic discussion of digital media. My father-in-law drove us to the venue from … Continue reading
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Tagged academic, academics, bedroom, Broadway Gardens, car, conference, digital, discussion, drive, driving, experts, father-in-law, garden, Hexham, hotel, media, musical, noise, noises, pool, registration, suitcase, swimming
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