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…
November 8, 2021 Social Performances and Different Stages: The Self Online Last month I talked about the self offline and the respective stages on which we perform for different audiences. Whether at work or at…
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…
March 29, 2021 Showing My Work: A March Update The start of 2021 has been a little crazy. Actually, make that a lot crazy! This post isn’t going to hash out all of…
January 18, 2021 Building an Author Brand (Part 3) In this final entry of the Building and author brand trilogy, I’m going to go a bit introspective here and talk about some of the pros and cons of author branding. Also featuring rants about authenticity and mentions of Lucy Daniels.
November 30, 2020 Building an Author Brand (Part 1) It used to be that when we talked about brands, we generally meant a company with a recognisable logo, slogans, and so on. I…
