Friday 02 December 2011: Readings in Pearce, Latour and Mauss.
Thursday 01 December 2011: Library research study day; primarily Pearce, Latour and Mauss.
Wednesday 30 November 2011: Library research and Brown Bag Seminar with Kate Hill about ‘York Castle Museum’.
Tuesday 29 November 2011: Supervision meeting with Sandra. Went up to main campus to request appropriate letters of student exemption for council tax forms. Sandra sent out an inquiry to the general PhD community regarding:
Media coverage for Arts and Humanities Research Council funding. The precise criteria was along the lines of did anyone have a ready example of:
1. Media (presume news coverage, video, social media . . . blogs too?) coverage
of
2. Student projects: funded by AHRC but NOT with collaborative doctoral award
and with
3. NO external partner.
I personally was not able to come up with much and I don't think it was a matter of not looking in the 'right' places. I believe this criteria describes a currently unusual circumstance.
There are case studies listed at the AHRC for small grants that appear to meet the specified criteria in some cases. Most of the cases I found that seem to meet the criteria have not been reported in mainstream media or documented in video. Additionally, many of the reports I have found reported by the AHRC itself or are published by the researcher in the form of a personal blog.
In cases where there is a collaborator such as the BBC, a commercial, media-savvy collaborator or major institution, I observe that there some news reports (Royal Manuscripts research for example). Does this suggest that we in research are not the best at marketing or publicity? I'm also wondering if the economic climate means that collaboration is more the norm, as well as 'trusting' university-based _project groups_ that have professorial leadership? I was sorry not to have be able to contribute to Tallack's research.
I was also informed just before midnight of a bereavement: my godmother Nancy Hall.
Monday 28 November 2011: Preparation for supervision and ‘reconnoitering’ of general objectives. Reviewed current resources and updated the comprehensive annotated bibliography. There are still quite a few resources that I haven’t properly explicated. I need to set more focussed time aside to distill and properly cite quotes (and arguments) for future use.
Weekend: Research at home--review of online resources. Scheduling for monitor readings.
