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By Elke Close ¦ After Laura’s uplifting post about rediscovering your groove, this week I want to give you a little advice on what to do when you cannot stand the thought of anything remotely connected to your PhD thesis. Most… Continue Reading →
by Elke Close | In the past, there have been many posts using analogies to explain our PhD journey. It has been compared to many things: Game of Thrones, an intimate relationship, a video game… The list seems endless. Yet… Continue Reading →
| by Elke Close Since I started my studies almost eight years ago, I have learned quite a few things: for one I quite like doing research, I love Ancient History and, perhaps the least surprising fact of all, academia is… Continue Reading →
by Elke Close | I have now been back in Edinburgh for a little over two weeks after spending six months in Athens on an Onassis Foundation research fellowship. Unlike modern historians, I did not have to spend the majority of… Continue Reading →
| by Elke Close At the end of January, I left the rainy skies of Edinburgh to spend six months in Greece on a research trip. It has been nearly four years since I last lived here and even though many… Continue Reading →
By Elke Close | As an ancient historian, one of the questions I get asked most often is: ‘So if you’re working on something that happened over 2000 years ago, what sources are you using?’. The answer is that, thankfully, classicists… Continue Reading →
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