Overwhelming Questions: Thoughts on the UNMC Research Priorities Workshop, April 30 2013
May 17, 2013
Our UNMC Research Priorities Workshop brought into focus many elements of the sheer range of research taking place on the campus. It gave colleagues the opportunity to explore concepts and themes which unite our work across the disparate disciplines and faculties. Coming to the process from an Arts/Social Sciences background, I found a surprising level …
Supervising an International Masters project – a UK perspective
May 7, 2013
This is the fourth and final in a series of special blogs about setting up and supervising international and inter-campus projects based on the experiences of staff at the Nottingham University Business School in the UK and Malaysia. In this blog post we look at supervising an international project from a UK perspective based on the experiences …
Transgression
May 3, 2013
The Korean-American graffiti artist David Choe is, perhaps, most well-known now for being a Facebook millionaire, one of the people who were given stock in lieu of cash for work done for the company. In Choe’s case, he painted a mural at the Facebook headquarters in 2005 and instead of taking USD$60,000, he was given a small …
Do good
April 22, 2013
I had wanted to comment briefly on the conversation about elephants to start to build my own paradigm for understanding my place here, both in Malaysia and on this blog. I will start with this: I don’t think we overcome the imperial past (or present, in the case of my American citizenship) without giving over power in meaningful …
Supervising up an international Masters project – a Malaysia perspective
April 18, 2013
This is the third in a series of special blogs about setting up and supervising international and inter-campus projects based on the experiences of staff at the Nottingham University Business School (NUBS) in the UK and Malaysia. In this blog post we look at supervising an international project from a Malaysia perspective based on the experiences of …
Berhati-hati! Researching While Mat Salleh
March 29, 2013
Part 1 of a series of posts on the complexities of engaging in political social science in a neo-authoritarian state. Cross-posted to devastatinglyabstract.com Foreign Dissident Western Troublemaker Meddling Mat Salleh Scion of Soros Enemy of the State Until I moved to Malaysia I never knew I was so dangerous. Serius, lah! You probably think I’m …
International projects – a university’s vast untapped potential
March 25, 2013
This is the second in a series of special blogs about setting up and supervising international and inter-campus projects based on the experiences of staff at the Nottingham University Business School (NUBS) in the UK and Malaysia. In this blog post we look at setting up an international project from a Malaysia perspective based on the experiences …
Speak to me
March 18, 2013
In 2003, when I first went to Japan, I had only intended to stay for a year and then return to the US to do an MFA in Creative Writing. I ended up staying five years, in part because I became infatuated with the language and obsessed with becoming, as much as I could, ‘fluent’. …
Looking at and past
February 18, 2013
Happy to find this blog, happy to be a new member of the Nottingham community, and happy to do some thinking about the complexity of my presence as a white Westerner (American, but educated in England, with a Japanese wife–we get triple imperial points, I think) in Malaysia. I will be blogging here intermittently, but …
International projects – a university’s vast untapped potential
February 15, 2013
This is the first in a series of special blogs about setting up and supervising international and inter-campus projects based on the experiences of staff at the Nottingham University Business School (NUBS) in the UK and Malaysia. This first blog post looks at setting up an international project from a UK perspective based on the experiences of …
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