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This invaluable source book offers guidance, support and advice for those contemplating or involved in academic careers. The contributions provide rich, personal, sometimes poignant and often humorous accounts of shared and unique experiences of those in the world of academia.
Creating a Career: Observations from outside the Mainstream
Creating a Career: Observations from outside the Mainstream
John: Let me start by asking you to situate your early years of study in a social, political, and intellectual context.
Stewart: In 1971 I started a PhD at Bradford University under David Hickson's supervision. I chose Bradford for several reasons. One reason was that I had become interested in power and uncertainty as related concepts, and these were David's interests. Second, I was born in Bradford. It was a good place for being close to family networks.
I returned to the North again in the summer of 1971. During the summer, before starting the doctorate, I had worked on a building site as a joiner's laborer, something ...
