Category Archives: Education

Teachers, Careers and Chance

Posted on November 4, 2010 by Athene Donald

What gets one into working in an interdisciplinary field and what form does it take?  A researcher starts off trained in one field but then moves into interdisciplinary working via various routes. One can stay in one’s original field/department but … Continue reading →

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What does Dagenham have to do with the Higher Education sector?

Posted on October 4, 2010 by Athene Donald

This week sees the release of the film ‘Made in Dagenham’ , a film about a group of women sewing machinists at Ford in Dagenham who went on strike to get equal pay with men doing the same job. And … Continue reading →

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The Advantages of Maturity

Posted on September 3, 2010 by Athene Donald

A final post on the Oxford meeting, before I go on holiday for the next week (no laptop, no emails and no posts).  This topic is provoked by some comments made to me by a mature PhD student attending the … Continue reading →

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Lawson, Willetts and Equality

Posted on August 24, 2010 by Athene Donald

Dearie me, it really is the silly season. Dominic Lawson, in today’s Independent, writes a perfectly sane piece about the fact that if more girls go to university than in the past, then necessarily there are fewer places for boys … Continue reading →

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