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Interdisciplinary Research

Yesterday I had the pleasure to attend a round-table discussion with and a public lecture by Preston Manning, who is now President of the Manning Centre for Building Democracy. The general subject of...

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Reporting and Reflecting on Research

I have recently had to revise/update my CCV (Canadian Common CV) for a proposal, where I had to identify the most important contributions of my research. I was also invited to participate to a...

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University vs. The Real World

This past week I had a very interesting discussion with a couple of colleagues on Facebook, of all places! Seeing you shrug in my mind’s eye, thinking “interesting discussion on Facebook… pleaease…“,...

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Thanking my Mentors

Lately, I have been thinking a lot about mentors and mentoring. Several unrelated events have conspired to keep the subject relatively prominent in my thinking stack for some time, and I started...

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The drama of conferencing

The conference experience can been anywhere between exhilarating and draining, almost always at the same time. To the extent that the social lives of researchers and scholars includes drama, it unfolds...

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