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Dinner, Duns, and editing dissertations (Rousse)

Posted on July 4, 2026 by Dreamaticus

Four years later than anticipated, finally I was the guest of honour at a dinner to mark my retirement. Former colleagues and long-term friends joined the celebrations. The locals included MS and IH from work. From further afield came university … Continue reading →

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Christian falls in love with atheist (Rousse)

Posted on February 14, 2024 by Dreamaticus

I stood at the back of the church, aghast that the worshippers fell for all this nonsense. When they started the ritual of removing the notices from the boards on the right hand wall, I helpfully stood up and made … Continue reading →

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Courtship rituals for the widowed and widowed-to-be (Rousse)

Posted on May 17, 2023 by Dreamaticus

I met the young red-haired doctor around the time of TPR’s final illness. It was convenient (to me) that he had lost his wife to cancer a year earlier. Amongst our courtship activities we marked (appalling) Masters dissertations, walked through … Continue reading →

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Dissertation and desertion (Rousse)

Posted on July 25, 2021 by Dreamaticus

My dissertation was due for submission in a matter of weeks and I hadn’t started it even though I had all the access to resources that I would ever need, now that I lived in a cubby hole in the … Continue reading →

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Dissertation draft literature review disappoints (Rousse)

Posted on January 24, 2020 by Dreamaticus

I had promised my new PhD student that there was nothing to fear at the review meeting – but this was before I realised that she was under the impression that it was appropriate to submit a chapter of creative … Continue reading →

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A PhD plagiarist (Rousse)

Posted on August 14, 2018 by Dreamaticus

My suspicions were raised when I spotted the phrase ‘this doctoral study’ in LC’s honours project submission. It did not take long to confirm that ‘her’ dissertation was, in fact, a patchwork of text stitched together from sections of an … Continue reading →

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Failing your finals (Rousse)

Posted on March 21, 2018 by Dreamaticus

Now that we were in the second term of the final year of our degrees it was high time that I started work on my dissertation. I caught Mrs S heading into the staff room and confessed to her that … Continue reading →

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The computerisation of sanitation businesses (Rousse)

Posted on December 2, 2017 by Dreamaticus

A mature student with a Geordie accent, supported by a gang of friends, was trying to persuade me that it was appropriate that he write his dissertation on how to revive his wife’s failing sanitation business. I explained that this … Continue reading →

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Marine biology meets Information Science at Loughborough University (Rousse)

Posted on December 1, 2017 by Dreamaticus

Dressed in a shimmering, metallic ballgown, JH spun around the room with TPR. AM looked on in envy. Meanwhile all I wanted to know was why my colleagues at Loughborough University were encouraging Masters students to write Information Science dissertations … Continue reading →

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An unworthy dissertation on Elizabeth I (Rousse)

Posted on June 5, 2017 by Dreamaticus

SC and I were trying to work in one of the smaller University library reading rooms. While I was still worrying about my degree, she was marking a dissertation on Elizabeth I. She and JK wanted to fail the work … Continue reading →

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