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On Blogging

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Published: September 26, 2024 00:00

In 2024 I retired from being a university lecturer. I wanted something to keep me writing, but not full-on academic writing. A blog seemed to fit the bill. Blogging and empowerment When blogging first emerged in the 1990s I thought it was amazing. Until…

Alternative Email 2

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Published: September 16, 2024 00:00

Continued from Alternative Email 1 which focused on criteria for alternative email. This part looks at alternative email providers. Alternative email providers In this part I am focusing on alternatives that on my criteria from the last post seemed the…

Alternative Email 3

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Published: September 16, 2024 00:00

Continued from Alternative Email 2. This part looks at some other email providers that I did not discuss in the 'shortlist' in Alternative Email 2, alternative calendars, changing email, picking up email, other alternative internet possibilities, and…

Alternative Email 1

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Published: September 15, 2024 00:00

This is the first of 3 posts on alternative email; alternative to big tech email like Gmail, Hotmail etc. Below is a list of contents followed by an introduction. Contents Alternative Email 1 Introduction Widening ethical criteria for alternative email…

Sussex Stories 8: The Part-time Years 2016-24 Part 2

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Published: July 13, 2024 00:00

Continued from Sussex Stories 7 This is the 8th and final part of these Sussex Stories 1990-2024. Zoom: COVID-19 and lockdowns When COVID hit in 2020, VC (Vice Chancellor, university CEO) Tickell incredibly pushed on with face-to-face learning even though…

Sussex Stories 7: The Part-Time Years 2016-24 Part 1

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Published: July 13, 2024 00:00

Continued from Sussex Stories 6 More time I've always felt on the borders of mainstream capitalist and bureaucratic society, able to have one foot inside but unable to avoid one foot outside too. I've never felt comfortable in or out, with the balance more…

Sussex Stories 6: The Farthing Years 2007-16 Part 2

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Published: July 10, 2024 00:00

Continued from Sussex Stories 5 So, when you're near me, darling, can't you hear me, S.O.S Many universities were following Universities UK (UUK) guidance and rewriting staff statutes in their constitutions, and Sussex followed suit. After I did a bit of…

Sussex Stories 5: The Farthing Years 2007-16 Part 1

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Published: July 8, 2024 00:00

Continued from Sussex Stories 4 The dream is over The interdisciplinary structures had gone. But more was to come. The university motto 'Be Still and Know' became rarely seen in any public face of the university. There was very little 'Be Still' in the…

Sussex Stories 4: The Smith Years 1998-2007 Part 2

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Published: June 27, 2024 00:00

Continued from Sussex Stories 3 New appointments and equal opportunities: this is the real world I said the university I arrived at was 'beautiful' in the early years. But it was not beautiful for everyone. The student body was disproportionately white and…

Sussex Stories 3: The Smith Years 1998-2007 Part 1

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Published: June 25, 2024 00:00

Continued from Sussex Stories 2 New Labour, New Britain In May 1994 the Labour leader John Smith died. I bumped into my colleague Stephen Driver on the stairs at work very soon after and we were speculating on who would be the new leader. I said Gordon…