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This blog post is shared with the permission of my PhD supervisor, who was part of these conversations. I had disability accommodations for a PhD milestone this year. It’s not something I’ve opted for often (or for a while), and it ended up being a positive experience. A colleague who was encouraging me from the…
2023 | 2024 In my past end-of-year reflections, I’ve touched on loss. No one close to me has died (or almost died) this year, but the feeling was there again. And it felt like something I’d lost previously. I’ve lost my words before. Because, at times, I choose not to compete. Which feels amusing, because…
One of my favourite leadership roles has been one with a remit that included (but wasn’t limited to) bringing my lived experience of disability and neurodivergence to the table. It wasn’t my only responsibility, and my expertise was recognised as going well beyond my lived experience, but its value and opportunity for impact were made…
Lately, working through my inboxes feels like it’s just bookmarking a lot of links with things I’d like to read/watch. Those emails then get added to a professional development folder. Realistically, I won’t get to go through it any time soon. Emails aside, one thing I do enjoy about having a few different projects on…
Sundays are for PhD-ing. Or, at least, writing out my thoughts on PhD-ing. As I’ve started to reshuffle and rework some of my earlier PhD writing, I’ve finally related to the idea of “don’t ask how the PhD is going.” My brain is constantly swirling, rapidly sifting through everything – including what needs to be…