Welcome. This page provides an overview of the blog since my first post in November 2016.

This blog chronicles my experiences in academia, alongside reflections on raising a child with a chronic illness and reading feminist dystopian fiction. I started blogging once I had secure work, when I had time and space and energy to write. I had been an avid blog reader for many years, and was searching for a blog that explored questions about slow academia in relation to teaching and learning, the politics of higher education,  academic roles and identities, academic leadership and university governance, unionism and activism.

Here are a few of my favourite posts: Heterotopias in higher education, Details optional, Blogging as a loose-fitting garment and, in the Over a Cuppa reflection series, Don’t be the wizard behind the curtain.

Older favourites include: stories we tell ourselves, goals for today and contaminated time.

Here are the summaries of the Philosophy and Theory in Higher Education Society (PaTHES) slow academia online meets: Uses and abuses of slow, Stories of the self, Universities as places, Thinking together, Speculating on time and Theorising slow academia. And the slow academia webinar series: Universities, goodness and plague.