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Tag Archives: study
Arty party ends in dreadful drowning (Rousse)
While we were out, my sister S invited an entire year group of art students to our Edinburgh flat. She had captured them on the promise of a workshop on the interpretation of lived experience of mental illness in creative … Continue reading
Mystery P grid (Rousse)
I nodded sagely when IH told us that we needed to use the p-something or other grid in the (now late) report of our study. In reality, I had no idea what she meant at all.
Green checked shirts and Bible study (Rousse)
EH and I set up camp in a comfortable three-seater with another colleague for our all-School work trip to the US. Occasionally our male colleagues – each dressed in a different take on the green checked shirt – would call … Continue reading
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Tagged bible, book, checked, colleague, green, shirt, study, trip
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Seeking student accommodation during a pandemic (Rousse)
Indian student Bhopal chose my flat for his lockdown accommodation. We barely noticed him as he hid in our study for two weeks. He might have even been ill in this period. If so, we never knew. One day Bhopal … Continue reading
Unexpected visitors and missing friends (Rousse)
QL rang me in a panic. ‘Lucy thinks that the reunion is still on. She didn’t receive the lockdown cancellation email. She’ll arrive in Edinburgh tomorrow.’ I ignored the message – indeed forgot about it – until the following afternoon … Continue reading
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Tagged architect, bikes, boat, cancellation, cellar, daughters, dishwasher, Edinburgh, futon, kitchen, lake, lockdown, mattress, reunion, sitting room, study, visitor
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A quick house move (Rousse)
TPR and I had just moved into a massive fully-furnished modern house with views across the valley. Keen for his children to enjoy a country childhood, I persuaded PC and his family to take over one of the wings. After … Continue reading
Accommodation woes at the University of Birmingham (Rousse)
The renamed, but not refurbished, Mason Hall on the Vale at the University of Birmingham was to be our home for our Masters year. Once again I was sharing accommodation with HJ and SL, although this time it was not … Continue reading
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Tagged accommodation, basin, bathroom, bed, bedroom, Birmingham, camp, double, flat, hall, library, Mason, Masters, revision, study, university, Vale, woe, work
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A PhD plagiarist (Rousse)
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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Tagged dissertation, doctoral, download, illegal, PhD, plagiarism, plagiarist, study, suspicion, thesis
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Unethical practices of rail companies (Rousse)
The three women in the train carriage were all plain-clothed police officers. I knew this because I had been allocated the role of PhD supervisor for one of them. The woman in question, however, was unaware of this because she … Continue reading
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Tagged announcement, business, card, carriage, companies, company, doctoral, ethics, force, identity, meeting, officer, PhD, police, public address, rail, study, supervision, supervisor, train, women
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Accommodating seven adults in a two-bedroomed flat (Rousse)
IF CW moved out of the bedroom at the back into the study at the front, then JM could have her bedroom. But then JM said that he was moving in with his parents and his sister, so where would … Continue reading
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Tagged accommodate, adult, bedroom, corridor, disater, flat, parent, porridge, pot, sister, sleep, stride, study, two-bedroomed
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