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    Survival and Success in Graduate School: Disciplines, Disciples and the Doctorate
    with Sara Delamont and Odette Parry
    Routledge. 1999.
    Annotation. Richly illustrated with case studies and interviews, this book identifies key themes pervading academic life: the nature of research and research supervision; key social processes and problems; distinct and contrasting sub-cultures of departments and disciplines in universities; mentorship and sponsorship; and apprenticeship and rites of passage for postgraduate students. Anyone developing policy and practice in Higher Education, or wishing to understand their own position within the…Read more
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    The digital humanities have developed in concert with online systems that increase the accessibility and speed of learning. Whereas previously students were immersed in the fluidity of campus life, they have become suspended and drawn-into various streams and currents of digital pedagogy, which articulate new forms of epistemological movement, often operating at speeds outside the lived time and rhythm of human thought. When assessing learning technologies, we have to consider the degree to whic…Read more
  • 13 Henri Bergson
    In Jon Roffe & Graham Jones (eds.), Deleuze’s Philosophical Lineage, Edinburgh University Press. pp. 237-260. 2009.
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    What does it mean to see time in the visual arts and how does art reveal the nature of time? Paul Atkinson investigates these questions through the work of the French philosopher Henri Bergson, whose theory of time as duration made him one of the most prominent thinkers of the fin de siècle. Although Bergson never enunciated an aesthetic theory and did not explicitly write on the visual arts, his philosophy gestures towards a play of sensual differences that is central to aesthetics. This book …Read more
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    Supervising the PhD: A Guide to Success
    with Sara Delamont and Odette Parry
    Open University Press. 1997.
    This guide to supervising doctoral research is a practical handbook for both the novice and the experienced higher degree supervisor. It looks at how to get students to produce good PhD theses on time, and how to prevent failed theses.