The start of this blog week coincides with my final week of research as part of the Laidlaw scholarship, and a time when I’m reflecting on my progress as a researcher x leader over the past year. Whereas last summer I…
My research project this year is quite unconventional for a medical student – I’m carrying out a historical review of depictions of the accessory in sources from the 18th and 19th century. As such, I have had no…
I have spent the better part of my first week of Laidlaw thinking about margins. Crucial decisions in environmental economics are often made using marginal analysis, a concept central to my research. Let’s take a…
We love to say yes all the time. An exciting new project? Let’s do it! Want to grab coffee with a friend you haven’t seen in a long time? Monday’s good! Should you catch up with that comedy series you really enjoy? Of…
For this summer’s segment of my Laidlaw scholarship, I had the fantastic opportunity to be able to travel to the United States to access relevant primary material for my project on Dorothea Dix. Last summer, I focused…
I finished my second Laidlaw summer a month ago, and although the whole program adventure is far from done, the end of the research part felt like a good time to reflect on what I’ve done over the past two summers.…
I’ve just finished my first 5-week Laidlaw project in Singapore and Indonesia to study a tropical carnivorous pitcher plant called Nepenthes. These plants, found throughout South-East Asia have the extraordinary…
“On an outback cattle station, next to the Flinder’s Ranges, the square miles of Nilpena burn beneath an outback sky..” – Nilpena Station by John O’Dea, a brilliant local musician During the first summer of my Laidlaw…
This year’s Laidlaw summer was already a huge shift from that of last year — it was going to be my first time travelling to the United States to conduct an ethnographic study of the Smithsonian Asian-American Literary…
With my first five weeks of research bound, folded and consigned to history, a pause to reflect on the summer is welcome. The goal of this first stage of research was to produce a pressure cell suitable for…