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To All Event 2ers!

Monday, March 15th, 2010

Dear Friends,

I have just received an email from a friend of mine who is arranging a meeting for all the Ph.D. students of London on Wednesday 24th in South Kensington (7pm – but if anyone wants to meet earlier, we can have a gander at the Science Museum, V&A, and/ or Natural History museums which are all in spitting distance).  If you’re down here a day early, let me know if you want to come along – either send me a message, leave a comment, facebook, or email me.  It’s always good to meet with these chaps.  Last time I went to one of these meet-ups, I impressed a Chinese lady with my chopstick skills!  Also, I’m thinking of asking my History of Medicine friends if they want to meet up at some point during our three days together – one evening – if there is any interest!

I hope you’re all doing wonderfully well and I’m looking forward to seeing everyone’s smiling face again (and, of course, our new friends’ smiling faces!).

All my best,

Paul.

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My Presentation from litscimed

Wednesday, January 13th, 2010

Dear all,

This is just a quick post to give a link to where the ’swf’ of my presentation can be accessed should any of you wish to re-live the moment for whatever reason!!!

If you click on the ‘London Consortium’ logo, you can move to the next page.  On one of the pages (the second, I think) you have to click on ‘transplant’ to bring up the images representing what ‘transplant’ means.  Actually, any time you get to a slide which has a blank space, if you click on whatever else is on that screen, something else is likely to pop up… if nothing else does, just click on the Consortium logo again… sorry for the confusing interface.  I didn’t think it would be up here.

Also, I’ve kept the additional material on that I had in case I went quicker than I thought I would.  The final two slides are about nose operations.  The last slide will rotate through images depicting an Italian [Nose] Job (see what I’ve done there?).  There is no clicking needed.  I planned to talk about this nose job as the images rotated!

Phew!

If you do decide to re-visit, please enjoy!

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About Me!

Friday, December 11th, 2009

Hello Multi-and-Inter-Disciplinary Research Community!

Following the trend, I thought that I would develop a blog.  I have never done this before but I suppose it should be started by introducing and contextualising the academic ‘me’ broadly: In 2006, I achieved a First Class BA (hons) in Music but was dissatisfied with the limits of the field, as music never happens inside of a vacuum.  I wanted some way to work with sound and its context so did an MA (by Research) in Performing Arts.  After my MA, I worked as a Research Assistant with the NHS and became interested in hospitals and medical establishments and what happens in them.  My PhD with the London Consortium is where the two ‘creative’ and ‘medical’ strands of my life converge.  It is a multi-disciplinary venture, looking at the Poetics of Transplant.

Just what ‘the Poetics of Transplant’ are I’m going to try to explore a little in this blog…

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