Motherhood and academia are in many ways an uneasy mix. And even more so when it comes to single motherhood.
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Columns
Single Motherhood and the Faculty Life
What Are You Missing? Sept 25-Oct 8
Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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All the Single Academics
This piece attempts to challenge the stereotypes that single academics can write all the time (or any time we want), are free from family responsibility, and somehow have it “easier” than other academics.
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What Are You Missing? Sept 11-24
Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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A Step Toward Fixing Peer Reviews: Sign Them
There are many proposals to transform institutions of peer review, and perhaps in time some will come to fruition. But there is a simple step that every concerned reviewer could take, right now, to make the process better, fairer, more useful and more human.
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Torchwood Miracle Day, Episode Ten: Second-guessing the Blessing?
Torchwood's finale is full of bi- action (bipolar showdowns, bilateral immortality, and SF's human/alien binary) as its showrunner seeks to second-guess audience expectations. But how much does it leave its viewers guessing?
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Thoughts on the Intersection of Communication Research and Policy
It’s in the long-term best interests of the field on a variety of fronts that we work to play a more prominent role in the policy arena. But how do we do so?
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What Are You Missing? Aug 28-Sept 10
Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Torchwood Miracle Day, Episode Nine: Global Drama?
'Miracle Day' offers a literalising, telefantasy take on "global" drama this week, as well as seeming to literalise an infamous aphorism at the same time...
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Flexibility for Faculty Fathers
My wife and I had the first of our three children during my first year as a faculty member, so I've never really known what it is to be a professor or a father without simultaneously wearing the other hat.
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Torchwood Miracle Day, Episode Eight: A Fatal Floor?
This week it's a square of flooring that provides the mysterious detail, or the "figure in the carpet", if you like. As Torchwood: Miracle Day gets stranger and even more self-referential, will it ever give up its secrets?
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Advice, Feedback, and Where to Get It
With all the bad advice being given about academia, or simply the lack of advice, where do we get good advice and how do we establish a better system for giving it?
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What Are You Missing? August 14-27
Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Torchwood Miracle Day, Episode Seven: Who’s Buying Who?
Captain Jack flashes back in time, and we find out about the beginnings of Miracle Day. But just what is the episode saying about its sinful villains?
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Balancing between “Academy” and “Industry”
A discussion of academic media studies work outside the university.
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