October 26, 2009
Vitae has produced a series of short films with PhD students who have successfully completed their research on a part time basis. It’s a fascinating insight into not only the variety of topics people choose but the age range, gender and approaches people take to a significant part time endeavour…
October 22, 2008
For a company that’s dominated the Internet by doing one simple thing well, Google has also managed to build a thriving side business in bells and whistles: its features offer everything from the ability to search inside books and videos to the ability to watch a kid fall off a…
August 8, 2008
There are two great tragedies in life: One is not getting what one wants; the other is getting it. Oscar Wilde I’ve been thinking quite a bit about desire in the last few weeks (related, as it is, to disappointment) and Freud’s dictum that desire is in excess of an…
May 11, 2008
When is enough enough? San Francisco based Psychoanalyst Dr Owen Renik says The profession is in a great decline, and I predict the decline will continue. The reason for it, and the reason a corrective is needed now, is that although psychoanalysis began in a spirit of open-ended inquiry, with…
April 29, 2008
I spent a great evening at the White Institute last night where I shared some of my research on disappointment with a fantastic group of people who in turn, shared their experiences of disappointment in organisational settings. This was the first time I’d spoken about my work and I was…
January 21, 2008
Ryan Tubridy asked ‘is it ever right to show emotion in the workplace” on last Wednesday’s show. While I was glad to see this issue discussed on national radio I was really disheartened that the show didn’t appear to take the opportunity to challenge the most basic of myths about…
August 19, 2007
There are times when qualitative data are more powerful, valid, and useful for guiding action than quantitative data Shawn points us in the direction of a terrific post by Bob Sutton blogger and author of Hard Facts: Dangerous Half-truths & Total Nonsense, (I haven’t read the book but it’s now…
July 31, 2007
Doing a PhD is the equivalent of someone giving you carte blanche to convene your perfect dinner party. There’s nothing like picking up the phone to complete strangers whose work you’ve admired; telling them you are doing a PhD and inviting them into a conversation for them to say “yes”.…
July 17, 2007
Arguing for the value of the arts is a full time, headache inducing activity that most arts organisations and policy makers know only too well. Unfortunately, many of the indicators reached for are quantitative and economic, making the intrinsic value of the arts for their own sake more difficult to…
July 13, 2007
What happens when you combine Mindmapping with Wikipedia? You get WikiMindMap a tool that presents the information you are looking for in Mindmap form. I searched for information on “psychoanalysis” and got this series of branches. Clicking on any of the branches then brings up more detail which means you…
