Category: Academia

• The Many Headaches of Interdisciplinary Training

  Academia in some countries (primarily Western Global North countries with lengthy histories of disciplinary academic departments) are now begging for more interdisciplinary staff. The reasons are fairly obvious: Relatively few staff are actually trained in interdisciplinary techniques, many staff are stubborn and refuse to learn about another field, interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approaches are needed to…

  Merlin Star

  March 12, 2023

  Academia, Bias, Mathematics, Psychology

  Academia, barriers, disciplinary, interdisciplinary

• My initial schedule for my PhD

  I am likely going wrong somewhere with my plan because when I sketched out my tentative plans for my doctorate I have the duration for 3 years. That’s rather short. With that said, here is my tentative schedule that is definitely wrong and that I definitely need to update once I find out where I…

  Merlin Star

  March 8, 2023

  Academia, Things I am working on

  Academia

• My Initial Thoughts on Avoiding Common Prejudices during my PhD

  I want to avoid some of the more common prejudices that folks pick up on during a PhD. While I know that I can’t avoid all of it and that much of it is systemic, I do at least want to minimize the elitism that I pick up from academia along with the anti-Indigenous attitudes.…

  Merlin Star

  March 8, 2023

  Academia, Bias, Things I am working on

  Academia, elitism, PhD