Travel, Internationalism, and Academia Blog
07.03.2021
Academic travel, pandemic class
Back in those last few months of late 2019, before Coronavirus, I travelled frequently between South and North America, Europe and Asia, knocking up over 45,000 miles: the equivalent of flying between London and New York 13 times. I was giving seminars in Quito, Ecuador and Nur-sultan, Kazakhstan, with an apartment in each country, I was presenting at conferences in the USA, visiting family in the UK, and even spending a weekend break in Poland. With the arrival of SARS-CoV-2 my jet-set lifestyle skidded off the runway, and to an abrupt halt. [Read More…]
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27.01.2021
At Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan
Recently I’ve been working at Nazarbayev University. This is an ambitious, internationally-focused and well-funded academic project in Kazakhstan. Opened and expanding since 2010, the university comprises impressive facilities on a single campus (plus a nearby medical school) in the capital city, Nursultan. [Read More…]
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25.12.2020
Ten Christmases on the road
For Helen and me, Christmas is a time to travel. Not travel home to family and friends, but to travel to new places. In fact, we’ve spent the past 10 Christmases in all sorts of places, only linked by not being home. [Read More…]
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14.12.2020
About me
This is my blog about my personal travels as an academic. In this first post I’ll introduce myself, explaining how I got to this point.
I’m British, from the north of England. [Read More…]
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