PhD Research Proposal: Full Disclosure
Michael Gallagher To make my doctoral experience as transparent as possible for documentation purposes (myself) and to provide a record of my experiences, pitfalls, etc. (for others), I will be posting things…
Expat simultaneity of place: 2+ geographies, 2 conflicting emotions
Here/There I was having a nice email exchange with a fellow expat friend who I know from Korea, but had recently visited London along with his wife. We met, talked,…
Engaging the material university: (simple) thoughts from a left-handed elearner
I have only just begun this PhD program at the Institute of Education, but I thought I would make my whole doctoral process as transparent as possible. This will include…
Pragmatic Mobile Technology Use in Malawi for mHealth
I have been facilitating the Week 3 Session on Mobiles for Development (M4D) for MobiMOOC and a few days ago we had a speaker from Malawi, Limbanazo Kapindula, discussing mhealth…
Failure as ambition, success as momentum: what brought me here to London
The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves. -Carl…
Ulysses, Imagination, and Reorienting Infinite Space
From time to time, I believe I just want to post quotes or passages that have inspired me over the years. I find this process to be a sort of…
PhD Research: Vision, Need, Networks, Ego
There will probably be quite a few of these posts as I begin this process of doctoral study at the Institute of Education and begin to navigate my way through…