Chelsea Haith
Portfolio Careers, or: Why I Have A Lot Going On All The Time
A few months ago I launched a new project: The Sound of Contagion. It's an awesome testing ground for using AI and creativity to mutually...
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Chelsea Haith
Mar 16, 20216 min
'Still a student': Infantilising Labour
I have had over a dozen jobs in the nine years I've been registered at one or other university. The word 'student' tends to be used in an...
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Chelsea Haith
Feb 21, 20213 min
Confirmation pending
'Confirmation' is the name of the penultimate hoop this performing poodle must jump through on her way round the PhD circus tent. It's...
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Chelsea Haith
Feb 1, 20215 min
Why vegan yoghurts are like online conferences
I have survived the first two weeks of Hilary Term without a bite of cheese or a sip of a milky latte. Not even one egg has made its way...
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Chelsea Haith
Jan 2, 20216 min
In response to the question, 'What are your New Year's Resolutions?'
"When I was seventeen I went to Angoulême, France on a two-month foreign exchange programme. I gained about eight kilograms thanks to the...
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Chelsea Haith
Dec 31, 20204 min
In Review: 2020
I don't do New Year's Resolutions (see my blog next week when you're already fed up with the lag during your online yoga classes). But I...
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Chelsea Haith
Dec 2, 20206 min
It's a wrap: Narrative Futures and Michaelmas Term
A friend asked if I would write about the hows and whys of the Narrative Futures podcast, and being low on initiative and ideas of my own...
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Chelsea Haith
Nov 16, 20203 min
Teaching; at Oxford and elsewhere
Have you seen that tweet about what online learning at Harvard looks like? The one with the huge screen filled with people's faces...
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Chelsea Haith
Nov 8, 20203 min
On Rejection (and Failure)
Last week I didn't get a job I wanted. Really wanted. The job would have given me invaluable experience in a range of industries. Also,...
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Chelsea Haith
Nov 2, 20204 min
It's raining and probably illegal to go to the library, or 'How I'm writing my thesis in lockdown'
Slowly. I'm writing my thesis slowly. The Bodleian libraries closed completely during the first lockdown in March. I did not join the mad...
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Chelsea Haith
Oct 22, 20205 min
Writing a very long thesis
80 to 100 THOUSAND words is many, many words. It's about a third of a Ken Follett novel, and twice as many as a Mills & Boon. Neither of...
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Chelsea Haith
Jun 4, 20193 min
It's Week 1 and I'm already tired
Said every academic ever. This blog has been devised to function as a record of the final year of my DPhil at the University of Oxford....
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