Matthew Sillence

When I began my own research degree back in 2005, I purchased a copy of Patrick Dunleavy’s Authoring a PhD: How to Plan, Draft, Write and Finish a Doctoral Thesis or Dissertation (2003). It was one of the first books that I read during my PhD, and I still read it today.... [Read More]

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About three years ago I set up a number of e-mail alert subscriptions to Taylor and Francis online. These were for a range of titles in education, and I was interested in new publications on doctoral education. Chances are you do the same, with your own criteria. For a while, this... [Read More]

Over the last year, building on the excellent training from the Oxford Digital Humanities Summer School on data preparation, I have been working up a conference paper given a few years back for the Monumental Brass Society. A niche interest for historians, archaeologists and art historians, that is true, but I realised that... [Read More]

Last Friday (3 May 2019) was the final day of our Arts and Humanities in the Digital Age series, run by the Consortium for Humanities and the Arts South-East England (CHASE). It marks the culmination of almost five months of training and independent project undertaken by a cohort of postgraduate research students... [Read More]