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Tag Archives: research
Secret service research promotion from Gill to Judith (Rousse)
I was very proud of the achievements of my colleague EH, just awarded a year-long research secondment with the Secret Service. However, I was also somewhat annoyed that an official was calling her ‘Judith’. When I later raised this with … Continue reading
Lakeside office accommodation priorities (Rousse)
We all stood in a neat line on the corridor conveyor belt that carried us through the main building of the new lakeside campus. We were interested to see our new workplace and discover the names of our future office … Continue reading
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Tagged campus, colleagues, feature, jewellery, lake, mates, office, research, room, stall, stream, Vivien, water
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The Stanford murderer (Rousse)
Stanford University research engineer JA was all over the news. He was a murderer! It would not be long before journalists would be knocking at my door, demanding to know whether or not I had spotted his evil streak when … Continue reading
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Tagged engineer, murderer, PhD, research, Stanford, university
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A happy heiress and Nottingham University fraud (Rousse)
My greatest delight in inheriting my maternal grandmother’s house was that I now owned a proper pantry. The battered and beautifully engraved silver napkin rings left in a kitchen drawer also fascinated me. Which of my ancestors was born (or … Continue reading
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Tagged blonde, campus, fraud, garden, grandmother, heiress, lockdown, medical school, napkin, Nottingham, pantry, party, research, ring, university, woman
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Magic tricks for UK research council panel members (Rousse)
I had a busy day ahead with a research council panel meeting in the morning followed by an operation to remove a facial skin cancer in the afternoon. CO was on the same schedule as me so – as a … Continue reading
When breasts head south (Rousse)
I hadn’t expected to bump into London-based SW in the Outer Hebrides. Yet here she was, as large as life, all aglow in a bright orange, and very clingy, T shirt dress, lounging lazily on the seat of a bus … Continue reading
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Tagged bosom, bosoms, breast, breasts, bus, clingy, dress, figure, flat-chested, knees, London, Orange, Outer Hebrides, project, research, south, surgery, T shirt
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Grief counselling for pets with Spike Milligan (Belle)
I was at the sunny British seaside to observe a research project. A fairground ride/obstacle course/car wash style experience had been built into the cliffs. Animals would enter the tunnel and would emerge at the other end with all their … Continue reading
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Tagged cliffs, dog, grief, killer whale, research, research project, seaside, Spike Milligan, tunnel
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A winning sausage conference submission, with citation indexes (Rousse)
EH and I felt obliged to attend the University research conference, even though much of the content was of little interest to us. On our arrival we could tell that many of our colleagues had ignored the event. This was … Continue reading
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Tagged basement, cafe, citation, colleague, conference, event, French, friend, index, model, National Library of Scotland, PhD, poster, research, sausage, student, submission, university, write-up
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Failing your finals (Rousse)
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
Lobbying the Scottish Government: in person, on a Sunday, face-to-face, in French (Rousse)
So impressed were we of RG’s athletic feat that we lobbied the Head of the Scottish Government – in person, on a Sunday, face-to-face, in French – to mark her achievement with a line of text carved in stone at … Continue reading
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Tagged achievement, athletic, audience, bid, carve, community, council, Coventry, employment, face-to-face, flaw, forget, French, government, head, hide, i3 conference, ignore, letter, lobby, memory, nomination, official, opportunity, prospect, recite, refuse, research, restaurant, risk, Scottish, stone, Sunday, supper, team, text, treasury
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