Matthew Sillence

The world has changed dramatically over the last few weeks, and universities have been transitioning to remote working to support their staff and students and ensure business continuity. However, the last ten days of the new normal has revealed just how dependent we are on the sophisticated IT infrastructures of... [Read More]

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]