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What do you like about being a researcher in Oxford?
Talitha Bakker
Thursday, 14 June 2007 10:33 UTC
Postdocs (and other researchers) are very good at complaining about things that good be organized better. Although this is very important, and we should actively try to improve things, I wanted to start this group with a positive forum. What do you think is good about Oxford? Punting and strawberries, pubs and beer? The closeness to London? Academic prestige?
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I expect my response is atypical because I am not the usual post-doc researcher. Have been researching and teaching for more than 20 years.
My experience of what is good about Oxford is that I am given a lot of scope to do what I want, a great deal of academic freedom but this is in quite a structured framework. Perhaps International Development is a bit different from many other situations.
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Pimm’s, Royal Oak, Standard Tandoori, parks, Museum of Natural History …… and complaining.
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Hi Cathie,
Where does your framework come from? From your group, funding body? Is the Oxford working environment, in terms of academic freedom and structure different from other universities?
Talitha
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hmm.. i’ll say life, cricket and science..
hmm.. i’ll say life, cricket and science..n in the evening .. most important .. Real Ale.. lol
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Ahh… Oxford.
Punting on the Cam. Whoops that’s Cambridge.
It is a lovely city, with nice people, some very interesting research and very polite tramps.
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