Castells, M. (2009) Communication Power. OUP

The reason in part is that I received my first dose of  heavy duty attack on my work at the beginning of the year. Right effort, right speech, means that I shouldn’t be discussing the details for now. I will admit though that when it comes to research and a thesis, I’ve been woefully naive how much ego and personal agenda comes into the examination process

Now that teaching has finished I’m about to get going on making some corrections over the summer and I’ve been astounded at the number of people I’ve met with and spoken to with who have had awful viva/ correction experiences, so there appears a gap in the market for me to come back and blog with some reflections.

For me the initial recommendations were so horrific  ( one day I hope I can detail this) but lets just say for now I had to compartmentalise and get on and do some other things. As a result of a pause from the tome I’ve picked up some other creative writing projects with success, been supervising some lovely dissertations and have plans involving ‘The fashions’ towards the end of the year.

I’ve also been giving it some ones and twos in my beloved Thailand ( despite getting stuck in  what looked to be a revolution for a bit) and practicing lots of mindfulness. So it’s all good.

Fans of Miu Miu will be happy to know that she has finally read Castells’ latest book and has started moderating 1^st year essays with me.