Confessions of a displaced hedgehog

A displaced hedgehog is a figure - or rather an image - from Tove Jansson's Moomin books. This is how I can best describe myself. This blog is mostly about being displaced.

Monday, 31 December 2012

Annual report 2012

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Facebook has identified twenty highlights of my 2012. But Facebook doesn't know about all of my highlights (neither about my downs) b...

Saturday, 29 December 2012

Best books of 2012

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Another seasonal post. As usual, not necessarily books published in 2012, but the ones I read in 2012. Best novel: Possession , by A S By...

Promises kept

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I started writing a post about the year that has been and decided to look at what I wrote at this time a year ago. Here were my New Year pr...

Friday, 21 December 2012

Reading networks

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I must have some gene from my librarian great-aunt in me, because ever since I was a child I loved cataloguing books. This aunt gave me real...

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Monday, 17 December 2012

Incentives

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In three weeks I am going on study leave. You may wonder whether it makes any difference since we are almost on the verge of holidays, but i...

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Monday, 10 December 2012

Go virtual

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I have been teaching online since 1999, but today I gave my first live virtual lecture. I don't quite believe that it's an adequate ...

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Saturday, 8 December 2012

Change of perspective

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I know I am expected to blog about it, so here it is. Yesterday I had the first experience as a supervisor at a British viva. I was a co-sup...

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