I have to apologise for neglecting the blog a bit the past couple of weeks: I’ve somehow found myself in the position of assisting with a grant application, writing a conference paper, preparing to teach three courses – and, oh yes, there’s still that pesky matter of field research… We won’t mention small things like deciding that I really needed to put together a reading group on analytic and continental philosophy, or assisting with the recruitment of another PhD student for our project (know any good transport planners anyone)…
Things will calm down slightly in early August, when at least the grant application and the conference paper will be off my plate, and my very small part in the PhD recruitment process will have concluded. My field research will continue to be quite intense for the next several months, and the teaching load is quite heavy this term – although I will only be teaching into, rather than coordinating or designing, these courses, so in that respect the demands will be lower than normal.
My courses for the coming term are: an undergraduate “common course architecture” course called “Economics for the Social Sciences”, which is designed to introduce first-year undergraduates to basic economic concepts, as well as provide a general socialisation to academic work; the Research Strategies course that I also covered last term; and a postgraduate edition of the History and Theory of planning course that I taught to fourth-year undergraduates last term – although, this time around, I’ll be teaching someone else’s version of the course, rather than the version I designed. Read more of this post
One of the bits of feedback I’ve received from my presentation to the HDR Conference a few weeks ago, was that the photographs I used “gave the impression of a depopulated landscape”, and that I should include more photos with people in them.
Rough Theory 
