Axniks

Reminded again by the site stats email, I have come to post. Who are the 19 people visiting the site from the US? What might they take away? I do not know. I do know that I was awarded a PhD on October 30th, 2024, pending minor corrections. The viva was a challenging and lovely…

As has been my habit I have spent the Easter half term break in the forests of Sweden, trying to get some writing done in the mornings and elsewhere around succumbing to the temptations of water in solid and fluid forms. I am also drafting a funding application for a short stay project with PIT…

This is the worst blog – and the only blog – I’ve ever written. Not only is it sparsely populated, it is also exclusively made up of excuses and posts teasing future achievements. Here’s another one. I am writing up my thesis. I have the discussion chapter laid out on my kitchen table and I…

I received a WordPress email with visitor stats today. There were very few visitors, probably just the one. And it might have been me. Either way, this WordPress email made me think an update was due. I transferred from MPhil to PhD in early 2022, with a transfer report, presentation and examination. And I submitted…

I ran into some difficulties in my PhD work at the end of 2021. For various reasons I was not able to present my work, and my transfer from MPhil to PhD was postponed. I have done a first ethnographic study in my PhD work (more about that in later posts) and I am now…