PhD opportunites at SOAS January 24, 2012
Posted by Mike Gulliver in Musings.5 comments
Apologies for the ragged formatting of this – it’s just a post to display the information that I don’t have space to tweet.
SOAS have a growing interest in SL linguistics – apparently.
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The Department of Linguistics at SOAS is pleased to announce the availability of several (partial or full) scholarships for students wishing to undertake PhD research. (more…)
Reinforcements… and an interesting challenge January 19, 2012
Posted by Mike Gulliver in Musings.Tags: careers, development, mentoring, sustainability., training
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With Christmas intervening – and then a frantic new year of catching up, I’m only just getting to the point now where I can come back to the blog.
And I do so with news… I have reinforcements 
In the last week, the long awaited replacement Client Support Officer has started at work. The hope is that… in time… he will learn to do everything that I’ve been doing, and effectively replace me – freeing me up to do other (and more interesting) things.
His arrival has, however, brought an interesting challenge to light – which is the amount of time and effort that it takes to effectively train and mentor someone.
This is a challenge that I suffered from… from the other end – as a PhD student. (more…)
