Tag Archives: flipchart

A sticky PhD problem with orange Blu-Tack (Rousse)

Posted on December 29, 2022 by Dreamaticus

MS had obviously not considered the existing provision for PhD student training when he created his ‘new’ programme. He stuttered unconvincing excuses when I reminded him that we were only accredited for the programme that we delivered in 2020. As … Continue reading →

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Phil Cunningham plays Edinburgh – to an audience of three (Rousse)

Posted on December 22, 2016 by Dreamaticus

I took my seat in the fourth row of the concert hall and waited alone for Phil Cunningham to take the stage. The lyrics of his first song were displayed on a flip chart a few metres in front of … Continue reading →

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Funding front-runner is boy from Limerick (Rousse)

Posted on June 8, 2015 by Dreamaticus

The students were a little bewildered when I gave each of them a sheet of flipchart paper and the instruction to list the priorities of their proposed research. Somehow we would use this output to determine who would get the … Continue reading →

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A failed meeting (Rousse)

Posted on January 3, 2015 by Dreamaticus

The committee was due to meet in my study. I arranged the furniture so that everyone would fit in: two seminar table arrangements, with the smaller one inside the other. As people arrived I took drinks orders (three instant coffees), … Continue reading →

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Dissertation deadline dilly dally (Rousse)

Posted on February 9, 2011 by Dreamaticus

Romana left my office carrying three enormous sheets of flipchart paper covered in red writing. My message “Your dissertation won’t write itself” buzzed through her brain. Earlier in the day she had arrived with a stack of empirical data, an … Continue reading →

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It’s school cocktail hour (Belle)

Posted on January 24, 2011 by Dreamaticus

My friend B was a teaching assistant, wearing a red pinafore/overall. She was making a small group of eight-year olds read from a flipchart: “A Martini a day helps you work, rest and play”.

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Let me leave Loughborough (Rousse)

Posted on December 8, 2010 by Dreamaticus

We were gathered around a table at Loughborough University to discuss the establishment of a new research centre for visiting library and information science researchers, and this was getting embarrassing. For the third time I asked the chair of the … Continue reading →

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Rousse’s relationship entanglements

Posted on December 2, 2010 by Dreamaticus

Although I was yet to admit it, our marriage had long been dead. My husband, kind to the end, was simply waiting for me to form another relationship before raising the question of how we could untangle ourselves from almost … Continue reading →

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