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Quite the surreal experience, attending a law conference. I presented a paper which was a collaboration with Dr Hannah Baumeister. (We became friends after I worked as her research assistant on the Drawing on Forced Marriage: Teaching Tough Topics Through Comics project.) Our paper (‘Fatal Words of Consent’: On Marriage and the Law in Wilkie
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I love being a literary editor, especially of academic writing. Last week I supported a PhD student to edit the final draft of her thesis before submission. It was such a privilege. Not only do I get to support the next wave of academics, but I’m also reading the cutting edge of scholarship. It’s such
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Here you are, approaching the end of your Master’s, or perhaps you’re a particularly ambitious undergrad. The winter exams are over, you’re moving towards Easter deadlines and the horizon of your current degree is rushing towards you with increasing speed. Now you’re starting to look around you and wonder: Should you do a PhD? And
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I think I know what you think I’m going to say. I’m going to tell you about the studies that show that reading fiction increases compassion and empathy for others. By reading literature, you are given access to the lived experiences of diverse people: characters from different cultures, body types, ethnicities, even moments in history.
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My name is Dr Alex Carabine. Despite my rather impressive-sounding title, I’m actually a working-class woman from Liverpool. I attended a comprehensive secondary school where a sixth-form Goth girl was stabbed in the leg between lessons, and I never thought university would be for me. I had no confidence in my abilities, and, growing up
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