A Pilgrim’s Progress Report #3

Oh dear! I do not seem to be doing well with these progress reports. It’s been almost 12 months since  my last Pilgrim’s Progress Report! Previously on Pilgrim’s Progress… As I had previously noted, 2017 was the year where most of my writing was going to take place. It culminated in a succession of first […]

On Sociomateriality

Sociomateriality welcomes responsible researchers. Please proceed with extreme caution. What’s in a word? Sociomateriality advances the view that organisations, work, people and technology should be conceptualised as being inherently inseparable, rather than the once “taken-for-granted assumption” of separate entities (Orlikowski & Scott, 2008, p. 434). The term came to prominence after 2007, appearing in journals […]

A Pilgrim’s Progress Report #2

Oh my, it has been 7 months since my last blog post and 19 months since my last Pilgrim’s Progress Report! The Road to Hell… I had the best of intentions for using this blog to record my progress. Instead, I have kept a private journal (in Microsoft Word) of everything that has been happening […]

Behind the Mask

A few months ago a member of my EdD cohort had set up a WhatsApp group so that we could keep tabs with each other, ask questions, and generally offer support to each other as and when we needed it. A Rough Ride We all knew that the doctorate programme of study was not going […]

In the Shadow of the TEF

It has been quite a while since I have written a blog post. A lot has been happening EdD wise. My data collection activities kicked off in December 2015 and will soon draw to a close in July 2016 (fingers, toes and everything else crossed), I will write a future blog post about that. Suffice […]

Objects and Dramaturgical Perspectives

All the world’s a stage And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts… (Shakespeare, 1623, As You Like It, Act 2, Scene 7) Introduction The above well-known and oft-used quote from Shakepeare’s As You Like It is perhaps a fitting […]

When Ideas Sing

But the good ways of reading today succeed in treating a book as you would treat a record you listen to, a film or TV programme you watch … There is no question of difficulty or understanding: concepts are exactly like sounds, colours or images, they are intensities which suit you or not, which are […]

Epistemic Fireflies

As mentioned in my previous post, I had arranged a Supervisory Meeting on Friday 19 June 2015 to meet up with my two supervisors, Dr Simon Hayhoe and Dr Darren Ambrose, to discuss moving the project forward in terms of the ethics application and looking at ways of working together. About the research study At […]