academic life

PhD studentship in British genetics and early migration from magistra 94 days old

I don't normally post job vacancies on the blog, but this is an unusual one. For anyone who has not been scared off interdisciplinary study by Guy Halsall, ...

History Matters 6: Women’s history and the mainstream from magistra 227 days old

[ ... ] by the mainstream of academic life? Bennett is generous in her appreciation of the varying forms that women’s history might take, but she does ...

The over-production of medieval historians from magistra 306 days old

One more post on the academic job market, from a slightly broader perspective. I was going to follow up my post on the careers of Cambridge medievalists ...

A prosopography of Cambridge medievalists from magistra 327 days old

[ ... ] who have had enough of academic life after 3 or 4 years research and are only too willing to bail out). And the AHRC career statistics seem to ...

RAE results for history from magistra 329 days old

The Research Assessment Exercise results for 2008 are now out, in theory telling us (among other things) the UK history departments doing the highest ...

Dead academic walking from magistra 331 days old

I started writing this post near the end of April. The fact that it’s taken me nearly a year to finish it isn’t due to writer’s block in any normal sense. ...

The prestige and decline of medieval history (UK edition): part 2 from magistra 490 days old

[ ... ] to show the futility of academic life in Lucky Jim, he made Jim Dixon write articles on medieval ship-building. It is epitomised by the comments of ...

The prestige and decline of medieval history (UK edition): part 1 from magistra 495 days old

In a discussion over on Medieval and Modern about outreach by medievalists, some of us blogging medievalists touched on possible differences in attitudes ...

The important and the interesting from magistra 508 days old

Modern Medieval has a blog forum going on that perennial question: why study medieval history? There is a good post up at the moment from Cybermedievalist, ...

Early medieval historical argument from soup to nuts from magistra 549 days old

An interview and writing a conference paper have kept me from blogging for a bit, but they’ve once again got me thinking about why my research and my ...