New blog!

It seemed to me a relaunch of my blog was long overdue. I’ve been very slack about it recently, not least because I was fed up with the MySpace format. The aims remain the same but hopefully this new version will be easier to read and much easier to respond to. Let me know what you think!

As a quick reminder, this is what I wrote when I started my old blog:

“One of the reasons for writing this blog then is force me to sit down and assess my own progress on a regular basis. But it’s also to help my friends and family stay in touch with what I’m doing (especially since no one really knows what a PhD researcher does all day long, especially if s/he is neither rooted to a chair in the library for three years or busily pipetting at their lab bench). It’s – maybe – a way to keep my supervisors and my funders informed on a more informal level (including all you generous UK tax payers kindly supporting me for three years). And it’s also hopefully going to be a way to communicate with people who share an academic or professional interest or are just curious about my work.

Researchers often lead very isolated lives; in theory virtual networking should be the perfect way to bring us together, communicate ideas and comment constructively on each other’s work, celebrate our little successes and allay our doubts. I intend to write about my work but on the basis that conducting fieldwork or indeed research generally is inseparable from living your life. There will be stuff about interviews, meetings, reading and writing but also where relevant, posts about current affairs, films, exhibitions, concerts and gigs, not to mention all the everyday practical stuff involved in moving to a new city. Most of it will be in English, but there may be posts in French or in both languages if it seems approrpriate.”

All of this still holds true and I hope to start posting a bit more regularly again.

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