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	<description>This is the modern way. Communication theory, technology. lifestyle.</description>
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		<title>A PhD on doing a PhD</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At the end of January I can across a great project where the researcher is investigating  the PhD process and I&#8217;ve been meaning to post a link for the corresponding blog for a while.
There are useful links to some great reading  and thanks to M-H for putting me on to the Malcolm Aswell book &#8216;The Reflexive [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.peacockbird.co.uk/2010/02/12/a-phd-on-doing-a-phd/#utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=a-phd-on-doing-a-phd</link>
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		<title>Merry Christmas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Feeling a bit festive today as I had my first mulled wine and mince pie of the season. Here&#8217;s a little snap from my phone. Ho ho ho.
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		<link>http://www.peacockbird.co.uk/2009/12/17/merry-christmas/#utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=merry-christmas</link>
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		<title>Research practice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hellooooo!
OK, so as promised (I&#8217;m sorry that this post is so v.v. overdue), but here are some reflections on finishing a PhD and my views on how to approach research in general. I honestly don&#8217;t feel it&#8217;s too useful to be prescriptive about &#8220;how to do a PhD&#8221; or how to finish a thesis as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.peacockbird.co.uk/2009/12/10/research-practice/#utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=research-practice</link>
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		<title>Doing a PhD</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Greetings, after a bit of a hiatus from me may I present a wordle word-cloud of my thesis in its entirety. Woo hoo!

I&#8217;ve had a crazy e.o September updating, re-drafting, and proofing, working  late into the night most nights. It really brought home the notion that writing a thesis is sometimes an endurance test. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.peacockbird.co.uk/2009/10/09/doing-a-phd/#utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=doing-a-phd</link>
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		<title>Transforming Audiences 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I took some time out from writing last week to run a research workshop with the Brighton team at iCrossing UK and then attended and presented at Transforming Audiences 2.
It is great to see the commercial world taking their research standards so seriously and the experience for me was having the best, most engaged seminar [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.peacockbird.co.uk/2009/09/06/transforming-audiences-2/#utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=transforming-audiences-2</link>
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		<title>Ska music.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ 
Music and politics have  a long interesting relationship and it&#8217;s pretty normative to argue that there is a political element to subculture and style. When one drills down it is usually a little more complex than politics with a big P. More like music and socio-cultural, political economy, or music and hegemony.  I guess it&#8217;s because music [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.peacockbird.co.uk/2009/07/21/ska-music/#utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=ska-music</link>
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		<title>Malcolm Gladwell Live!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I went to see Malcolm Gladwell &#8220;Live!&#8221; on Tuesday night and left feeling cross. I&#8217;m sure this post is going to make me unpopular as he and his ideas are incredibly successful. I think Malcolm Gladwell needs a large sprinkle of charisma dust. It&#8217;s OK to go all humble and low key , if  and only if what [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.peacockbird.co.uk/2009/06/25/malcolm-gladwell-live/#utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=malcolm-gladwell-live</link>
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		<title>Aldirati</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve meaning to discuss &#8220;The Rise of the Aldirati&#8221; for some time.
Alas, alak, been super busy at uni with the 3rd year dissertations, marking, and an in-house post-grad conference  so no time for blogging recently. I’ve had a paper accepted for The Transforming Audiences conference in September, at Westminster, and although I was accepted [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.peacockbird.co.uk/2009/05/31/aldirati/#utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=aldirati</link>
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		<title>Word cloud of my research</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is a bit of a &#8216;thing&#8217; going on out there of people creating word clouds of their research.
Good ones to be found on Almost PhD,Media @LSE &#38;social sim
Here&#8217;s one from mine. It&#8217;s only one chapter, more to come I&#8217;m sure.

Love wordle.
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		<link>http://www.peacockbird.co.uk/2009/05/08/word-cloud-of-my-research/#utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=word-cloud-of-my-research</link>
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		<title>Tweetminster</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I came across tweetminster a couple of days ago, an idea inspired by?tweet congress?and MP Tom Watson?and?Alberto Nardelli.

Follow and Tweet MPs and Parliamentary Candidates, and use the power of Twitter to track UK politics, make your voice heard and conversations more open. You can take a back seat&#8230; or you can tweet.
I must say I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.peacockbird.co.uk/2009/03/13/tweetminster/#utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tweetminster</link>
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