Academic Chatter | Chelsea Haith

'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...

'Confirmation' is the name of the penultimate hoop this performing poodle must jump through on her way round the PhD circus tent. It's...

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...

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...

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...

Slowly. I'm writing my thesis slowly. The Bodleian libraries closed completely during the first lockdown in March. I did not join the mad...

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...

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....