In the past few months, there has been a seeming up-tick in mocking other disciplines or sub-fields of our disciplines (or even Geography, as a whole), and even suggestions to cut entire programs. One of the more obnoxious and recent being, of course, the piece,...
This is being reposted from 29 December 2010 - i pulled it down on the off-chance that the funders might do a search on me. It didn't matter - i still didn't get the money. That's "no" number 6. I came across a funding opportunity...
Grant writing is one of the more difficult aspects of graduate school. Made all the worse by pressures of knowing that grant-ability is probably going to be more and more a piece of the hiring puzzle as funds for departments get thinner. I had a...