March 14, 2024 Catch Up March 2024: Work, Graduation, and Life in General How on earth has it been a year since I last posted?! I am so sorry to anyone who has been looking out for…
January 1, 2023 Goal Setting 2023: Reviewing 2022 and Planning for 2023 Happy New Year! How did we reach 2023? I can barely remember what life was like at the start of the year, so re-reading…
September 5, 2022 Updates September 2022: Life, Research, and Everything Time flies! I can’t believe summer is ending and another academic year is rolling closer. For much of the past few months, I’ve been…
January 31, 2022 Me, Myself, and the Social Media Archive One of the difficulties of social media is that it simultaneously acts like moments of speech and an archive recording everything you’ve ever posted….
January 10, 2022 Goal Setting: Reflecting on 2021 and Planning for 2022 It’s the beginning of a new year and so, once again, I’ve been thinking about goal setting. At the start of 2021, I realised…
December 16, 2021 Lessons from 2021: Authorship, PhD Research, and Everything in Between I can’t believe it has been a year since I released Shifting Sands into the world! There have been a lot of ups and…
October 8, 2021 Social Performances and Different Stages: The Self Offline There are a number of different theories relating to identity. Some are more focused on our personal selves and others look at the public…
August 9, 2021 Reflection and Planning Time: Shifting Sands and PhD Research August 2021 Another late blog – I hope this doesn’t become a habit! I actually have about three half-drafted blog entries sitting in my saved pile…
July 19, 2021 Author Identity and Online Behaviour I’m quickly approaching a full three years of my PhD, meaning the next step is “write-up” year. My original write-up year plans involved editing…
July 5, 2021 Becoming a Writer: The Livejournal Days This project keeps making me reflect on who I am and how I got here. Maybe it’s seeing Shifting Sands through multiple perspectives? Or…
