The film is worth your time. You won’t emerge a better person, but there are some laughs, some excellent performances and nostalgia for “The Rockford Files”. That’s a pretty good deal, I’d say. Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe are two men stumbling down mean streets in the ever-more-confusing and gritty (thanks to the pollution, both literal... Continue Reading →
University of Manchester’s Careers Service have just put on their tenth “Pathways” day for PhD students. There was free food (good), free entertainment (better) and free advice (best of all). There were 500 of us, and if there'd been a medical emergency, it would have been easier to shout out "“Is there someone who ISN’T a... Continue Reading →
Here's my performance in the University of Manchester final of "Three Minute Thesis." (Thank you very much to the organisers - and the training we received was fab). I did okay but on reflection, I tried to do too much - a history of climate science and policy, an explanation of issue lifecycle models, AND the Australian... Continue Reading →
UPDATE - a reply below. Wow! All that work writing for The Conversation and reviewing books (and writing my thesis, natch) has paid off! I have been sent an email"to deliver an invited talk" at a conference to be held at the end of the year in Hong Kong. Not smelling a rat at all, I... Continue Reading →
Guest post by Kari McGregor: when trying to make orgs, groups and meetings female-friendly, I think it's important to look at it all holistically, and accept that it'll take time for the changes to happen - i.e. everything you can do to bring the change won't actually result in change until later.... source: Punch Key... Continue Reading →
Heisenberg, Schrodinger and Ohm are on their way to to a physics convention when they get pulled over. The cop says to Heisenberg, who is driving "Do you know how fast you were going?" "No," says Heisenberg, "but I know exactly where I am." The cop says "You were doing 60 in a 40 zone."... Continue Reading →
Unless you've been in a coma on Mars, you'll have spotted that the Australian Government strong-armed UNESCO recently. They did this to keep the inconvenient-to-tourism fact that significant chunks of the Greater Barrier Reef is suffering coral bleaching out of a report on climate change and World Heritage sites. In yet another example of the... Continue Reading →
So there are lovely images of Advocacy Coalition Framework and Multiple Streams Approach (Basic version and with more recent modifications But none that I have found for Punctuated Equilibrium. Someone who knows what they are doing should do something about that gap. Meanwhile, this. Comments very welcome (rude is fine - I dish it... Continue Reading →
The game is rigged, you feel me? (At this point the wife will point out that I am not, in actual fact, a black man from B'more... Sorry "Baltimore"). Anyway, back to game rigging- the word for the day is "Heresthetics" William Riker was one of the leading scholars "positive political theory," or the Rational... Continue Reading →
So, I have been writing cynically about the "smugosphere" - that place where normal rules of performance assessment to not apply because people are Doing Good For The Cause. And I just kind of stumbled on a very very interesting paper by one Wolfgang Seibel; Seibel, W. 1996. Successful Failure: An Alternative View on Organizational... Continue Reading →
