Reading Time: 5 minutesIt is really hard to focus on the work in front of you when your field is burning around you.
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Tag: academic life
Pre-Flight Safety Briefing: Researching the Environment in the U.S. without Being Detained at the Border
Reading Time: 6 minutesIt is a turbulent time to be an international scholar in the United States: So before you embark on your next trip to the U.S., let’s make sure you are ready for take-off.
Scaling the Ivory Tower: The Neoliberalization of Academia
Reading Time: 12 minutesWondering about the unexpected consequences of the neoliberal turn of universities, we reflect on how to challenge the neoliberal model of academia in a way that keeps the academic door open to people of all backgrounds and fights against the commodification of knowledge.
As Clear As Mud: Understanding Small-Scale Fishing in Late Medieval England Through the Landscape
Reading Time: 5 minutesGoing on a research stay entailed long days in the archives, poring over medieval accounts written in hard-to-decipher script until my eyes were dry and my fingertips dirty with centuries-old dust.
The Carbon Footprint of Environmental Research: A Personal Dilemma
Reading Time: 7 minutesIt just did not sit right anymore to go on all these research trips. That’s when I calculated the Carbon Footprint of my project until thus far.
