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Dr Sherran Clarence (SFHEA) @phdgirlsa.bsky.social · May 8

Insightful post from @drjacquelineharley.bsky.social on how essential resilience, stamina and adaptability are to success and thriving in doctoral study. #Resilience is not only an individual attribute; we cultivate it in and with our #researchcommunities, who are NB agents of the #hiddencurriculum.

Kay Guccione @kayguccione.bsky.social · May 1

Thriving in doctoral studies: the Hidden Curriculum as a pathway to growth and resilience. Dr Jacqueline Harley gives us her take:

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Thriving in doctoral studies: the Hidden Curriculum as a pathway to growth and resilience

Dr Jacqueline Harley, Educator and Researcher, formerly an Assistant Professor, currently writing and reflecting on healthcare leadership and academic practice. Embarking on a doctorate is often li…

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Dr Sherran Clarence (SFHEA) @phdgirlsa.bsky.social · Apr 25

#NTUDoctoral Conference closed with a #FameLab session featuring 5 diverse presentations on piezoelectric technology, healthier homes, material culture and furniture use, the gut microbiome and pancreatic cancer, and understanding the mystery of Tau proteins and their role in cancer. #Inspiring

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Dr Sherran Clarence (SFHEA) @phdgirlsa.bsky.social · Apr 25

#NTUDoctoral snapshots - I feel after these two days that the future is in good hands. I listened to research today on everything from early Alzheimer’s diagnosis for adults with Down syndrome to understanding the behaviour of specific proteins associated with forms of cancer. #AcademicChatter

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Dr Sherran Clarence (SFHEA) @phdgirlsa.bsky.social · Apr 25

#NTUDoctoral Research Showcase - lots of conversation, research sharing, and excitement about the different PhD projects being undertaken by our #doctoral researchers. #Interdisciplinary networking in action! #PhDchat #AcademicChatter

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Dr Sherran Clarence (SFHEA) @phdgirlsa.bsky.social · Apr 24

Rich presentations this afternoon, on the ethical, emotional, personal implications of researching communities - especially those we are part of and identify strongly with. Can we - should we - be impartial, or can our partiality strengthen research impact? #ethics #communityresearch #NTUDoctoral

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Dr Sherran Clarence (SFHEA) @phdgirlsa.bsky.social · Apr 24

Feliciano Domingos presenting his research on bioaccoustics - understanding marine sound landscapes to explore the effects of noise pollution on the behaviour and stress to marine animals. Can we communicate with marine life through understanding how they use sound? #NTUDoctoral #marineresearch #PhD

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Dr Sherran Clarence (SFHEA) @phdgirlsa.bsky.social · Apr 24

Oluwasegun Apejoye presenting his systematic review looking at using machine learning to protect cyber networks and home devices which are vulnerable to hacking. Can Network Intrusion Detection Systems help keep us safe? #cybercrime #machinelearning #stopthebots @ntudoctoralschool.bsky.social

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Dr Sherran Clarence (SFHEA) @phdgirlsa.bsky.social · Apr 24

@ntudoctoralschool.bsky.social is hosting our annual 2-day PGR Research Conference in Nottingham, with 50 PGR presenting their research and thinking about #interdisciplinarity. Kicked off with Prof Andy Newton talking about the need for collaborative approaches to solving big problems. #PhDchat

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Dr Sherran Clarence (SFHEA) @phdgirlsa.bsky.social · Apr 18

Trans women are not men, they’re women. And they are no threat to other women if they share a bathroom or a changing room or any other room. I cannot understand this ruling. It’s wrong. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a... #transrightsarehumanrights #standwithtranscommunities

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Dr Sherran Clarence (SFHEA) @phdgirlsa.bsky.social · Apr 11

Sitting outside in the warm sunshine, eating my lunch and admiring my blueberry plants. Hard to be inside working today. Spring is such a hopeful season - not sure I fully appreciated it until I moved to the UK. #springthaw #sunnydays #vitaminD

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Dr Sherran Clarence (SFHEA) @phdgirlsa.bsky.social · Apr 8

Such a great day inducting a new cohort of #UfNCollaboratory #PhD students into our doctoral training programme, alongside their PhD and community supervisors. Getting the project teams and research off to a strong start, facilitated by the #NCCPE (thanks Zoe and Laura!) @mattjaywhy.bsky.social

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Dr Sherran Clarence (SFHEA) @phdgirlsa.bsky.social · Apr 7

These are gorgeous!

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Dr Sherran Clarence (SFHEA) @phdgirlsa.bsky.social · Apr 3

Chris Bryant and Peter Kyle need to #DoTheRightThing and protect authors' work from being stolen and pirated by #Meta #RespectAuthorsWork #MetaBookThieves #StopThieves

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Dr Sherran Clarence (SFHEA) @phdgirlsa.bsky.social · Apr 2

Spent a couple of days in March with @laurenjnixon.bsky.social at #IlamHallYHA in the #PeakDistrict running a 2-day retreat for NTU PhD students. Everyone got a lot of good work done, but the best part for many was the opportunity to meet new peers & friends #PhDchat #worklifebalance #writingretreat

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Dr Sherran Clarence (SFHEA) @phdgirlsa.bsky.social · Mar 27

I wrote this post for The Auditorium blog, about the inclusive doctoral recruitment and admissions work I have been involved in at #NottinghamTrentUniversity as part of The EDEPI Project and UfN Co(l)laboratory. @mattjaywhy.bsky.social @laurenjnixon.bsky.social theauditorium.blog/2025/03/13/i...

Inclusive doctoral recruitment and development: considering challenges and possibilities

Dr Sherran Clarence, Senior Lecturer, Doctoral Education and Development, Nottingham Trent University What does ‘inclusion’ mean to you, in a higher education context? Who needs to be included and …

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Daily Maverick @dailymaverick.co.za · Feb 23

Let’s be clear: there is no provision in our constitutional order for the arbitrary confiscation of white-owned land, nor any serious suggestion that the current government plans to pursue such a strategy.

EXPROPRIATION ACT OP-ED: Cutting through the maze of disinformation – a guide to land reform in South Africa

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Dr Sherran Clarence (SFHEA) @phdgirlsa.bsky.social · Feb 19

I deleted my Airbnb account this evening. It is a small thing to do, but the small things do add up. There are so many rabbit holes, you can’t go down them all, but you can take a stand where you are able to, like leaving Twitter and being here. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a... #stopthemadness

Airbnb’s co-founder is joining Elon Musk’s DOGE

Gebbia, a close friend of Musk, has praised DOGE’s work and defended it against criticisms on social media

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Dr Sherran Clarence (SFHEA) @phdgirlsa.bsky.social · Feb 18

Rest is peace, Prof Elbow.

Peter Elbow was one of my first writing teachers through ‘Writing without teachers’ + and I use his tools and advice in my teaching to this day.

I was fortunate to hear him speak several years ago - such a gentle, kind + thoughtful man.
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Peter Elbow Obituary February 6, 2025 - The Co-op Funeral Home of People's Memorial

View Peter Elbow's obituary, send flowers, find service dates, and sign the guestbook.

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Dr Sherran Clarence (SFHEA) @phdgirlsa.bsky.social · Feb 18

So very true. #janeausten #mansplaining #introvert

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Sophie Hodgetts @drshodgetts.bsky.social · Feb 6

Last push for participants for our study of sex/gender differences in cognition- we desperately need more autistic men and neurotypical men to take part. You will need a computer/laptop with a keyboard to complete the study.

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PsyToolkit

PsyToolkit: Run psychological studies online.

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Dr Sherran Clarence (SFHEA) @phdgirlsa.bsky.social · Feb 6

Just ran a workshop on understanding self-sabotage & procrastination + challenging discourses in #academia that say our worth+value = our productivity+outputs. Talking to #PhD and #earlycareer scholars about this is vital to change these discourses + their effects #inclusion #researchculture

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Dr Sherran Clarence (SFHEA) @phdgirlsa.bsky.social · Feb 5

Struggling to blog recently - can't keep writing posts about how I can't write - and it all seems a bit futile in the face of the world rn. Found this post from 2016 that resonated & gave me a bit of a push to maybe write something new: phdinahundredsteps.com/2016/11/13/g... #mentalhealth #writing

Grappling with complexity in a world gone mad

I’m not sure how to write this post. I have not posted on the blog for a while. I don’t really want to write any more ‘I’m so tired I can’t write posts’, but I n…

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Dr Sherran Clarence (SFHEA) @phdgirlsa.bsky.social · Feb 5

Excited to add this to my reading pile! See you next week at NTU :)

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Dr Sherran Clarence (SFHEA) @phdgirlsa.bsky.social · Jan 22

I’m Dr Sherran Clarence, and I work in doctoral education and researcher development @nottinghamtrentuni.bsky.social. I also blog about being a researcher and doing doctoral research and I write about and research inclusion and emotion in doctoral study. #PhDchat @ntudoctoralschool.bsky.social

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Dr Sherran Clarence (SFHEA) @phdgirlsa.bsky.social · Dec 4

To keep, to break or to make the ‘rules’… that is a question

What are the 'rules' of dissertation writing? They almost certainly differ between fields. In the visual arts, for example, a dissertation would almost certainly include text as well as images, textiles, design elements of a certain…

To keep, to break or to make the ‘rules’… that is a question

What are the 'rules' of dissertation writing? They almost certainly differ between fields. In the visual arts, for example, a dissertation would almost certainly include text as well as images, textiles, design elements of a certain shape and form. In Mathematics, a dissertation would have to include mathematical 'language' and forms as well as more conventional text, as arguments are made in equations as well as in other forms of writing.

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