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What's a professor?  What hours do academics work?  What actually is a postdoc? What's the difference between a Research Fellow, a Teaching Fellow and a Junior Lecturer?  If you've ever had the feeling that all of your peers know more than you about academic life, or had a question which you couldn't ask because it seemed too basic, or too brazen, then this session will provide an amnesty for you to get these things off your chest.  Wine and juice will be served to put you at ease while Dr…See More

What's a professor?  What hours do academics work?  What actually is a postdoc? What's the difference between a Research Fellow, a Teaching Fellow and a Junior Lecturer?  If you've ever had the feeling that all of your peers know more than you about academic life, or had a question which you couldn't ask because it seemed too basic, or too brazen, then this session will provide an amnesty for you to get these things off your chest.  Wine and juice will be served to put you at ease while Dr…See More

Articles should be 6000-7000 words and creative pieces 250-2000 words. The journal uses the author/date Chicago style referencing system. The closing date for abstracts of 500 words is 1 June 2011, but full articles will also be welcomed on this date. Finished articles will be expected within three months of abstract decisions. Please send all submissions, questions or enquiries to journal editor Dr Katy Shaw at K.Shaw@brighton.ac.uk

As part of the Poetics Centre, Birkbeck, the ON seminars are a series of round table discussions on the practice of research in poetry and poetics. ON focuses on collaborative thinking and shared connectivity in theory and practice.

Things I Wish I'd Known About When I Started My PhD #2,327I'm just coming into the last year of my doctorate & I thought I'd save a bit of time by investigating some software which'd manage all my references & put together my bibliography for me.  Birkbeck has a deal with EndNote where you can get a Lite version for free, but I found it rather unwieldy & couldn't see myself using it routinely.  Then someone suggested…See More

This group hereby pledges to support the Contemporary Fiction Seminars in all the interesting work they will produce and inspire. For further info please see the events page for upcoming seminars; or contact Tony Venezia or Zara Dinnen.

Voiceworks goes live!The culmination of the Voiceworks 2010 programme will be live streamed from Wigmore Hall on Thursday 20 May at 18.00. The performance lasts 45 minutes and is free to attend – do come, listen and support.The performances are *free* to attend, but tickets need to be booked in advance (this is very simple to do, and costs nothing). See:…See More