Chelsea HaithMar 16, 20216 min'Still a student': Infantilising LabourI 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...
Chelsea HaithFeb 21, 20213 minConfirmation 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...
Chelsea HaithFeb 1, 20215 minWhy vegan yoghurts are like online conferencesI 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...
Chelsea HaithDec 31, 20204 minIn Review: 2020I 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...
Chelsea HaithDec 2, 20206 minIt's a wrap: Narrative Futures and Michaelmas TermA 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...
Chelsea HaithNov 2, 20204 minIt'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...
Chelsea HaithOct 22, 20205 minWriting a very long thesis80 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...
Chelsea HaithJun 4, 20193 minIt's Week 1 and I'm already tiredSaid 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....