by Anna Blanch on April 26, 2011
A couple of months I was talking with Jez Carr and Miriam Jones (after Miriam’s awesome St Andrews gig) about what it means to be an artist. Jez asked me what I was interested in. I talked about my writing, about my photography, about people and their stories. I admitted that I struggled with taking […]
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by Anna Blanch on April 19, 2011
There was a certain amount of pointlessness that was compounded by a feeling of being trapped. The pointlessness came from having enough experience in the job to recognise that it wasn’t as satisfying as I thought it would be. You naively make assumptions about a specific career path. Then you get to that point where […]
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by Anna Blanch on July 30, 2010
by Anna Blanch on July 20, 2010
An Anti-gravity Superpower. That’s right, i’m an Academic Superhero (so not so much….) and my superhero is the ability to throw all the balls in the air and some how manage to keep them there while trying to hold the rest of my life together. In the UK system there is often a large stretch […]
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by Anna Blanch on July 16, 2010
Sometimes I find myself dashing off a quick comment on a post I’ve read and realise that I probably shouldn’t. That I should have “checked safe” as it were (that’s a firearm metaphor). I suggest that It should be second nature to comment on blogs with a professional attitude, just as we would ask questions […]
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by Anna Blanch on July 13, 2010
Six questions George Orwell suggests you ask of every sentence you compose: What am I trying to say? What words will express it? What image or idiom will make it clearer? Is this image fresh enough to have an effect? Could I put it more shortly? Have I said anything that is avoidably ugly? This is from […]
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by Anna Blanch on July 9, 2010
Is it just me or is the idea of a mission statement enough to give you a case of 90s corporatitis?I’ve been slowly working my way through 31 days to building a better blog and this is one of the tasks. It’s funny, because as much as it makes me squirm and feel happy I’ve […]
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by Anna Blanch on July 8, 2010
The Basics consists of general and introductory advice for research tasks and professional development, like using research libraries, reading and notetaking, submitting and presenting conference papers and journal articles. This post considers why you should seek to publish as a (Christian) scholar. One of the fundamental tenets of education in the western world is helping students […]
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