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Travelling between darkness and light: Reflections on lockdown

Photo by Vladimir Fedotov on Unsplash In the past two months, my world was shaken, stirred, and has only begun ...
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/ covid19, lockdown, Professional Identity, resilience, worklifebalance

Using your PhD in a non-academic job

… and staying true to your world-changing aspirations Image by Raam Gottimukkala from Pixabay It has been one year since ...
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/ Academic Identity, Phd, Professional Identity, Research

Finding my way home

Image by Pexels from Pixabay Finding my way home I left home in a hurryAs I packed five large suitcases ...
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/ belonging, Creative Writing, Home, journey, migration, poems, thediasporicpoet

Information seeking behaviour of a policy advisor

People whose networks span structural holes have early access to diverse, often contradictory, information and interpretations, which gives them a ...
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/ advising, Professional Identity, professional identity, public sector, Research, social network theory, social networks

Loose Leaves

Loose Leaves is a collection of poems written between 1994 and 1998, that is, between the ages of 17 and ...
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/ Creative Writing, emotions, nostalgia, poems, thediasporicpoet, youth

A long pause

Hyacinth at the English Wikipedia Only just last week, life in Aotearoa New Zealand was about being ultra conscious about staying home ...
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/ General

Journal Notes

Here are more recent poems I've put together as a book - of musical pieces. Mobile-friendly view The poems in ...
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/ Creative Writing

Nine at 35

With a renewed passion for creative writing, I’m embarking on a personal project to create folios of work – a ...
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/ books, children, Creative Writing, dreams, marriage, motherhood, nostalgia, poems, teaching, thediasporicpoet

Don’t call me Migrant or Asian but who do you say I am?

Image by Gordon Johnson from Pixabay Despite what feels like a ‘long’ time, I’m really still a newcomer to Aotearoa ...
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/ asian, identity, multicultural, New Zealand, Professional Identity

Belonging, longing to be

If there is a theme for my 2019 work life, it would be transition. And not just moving from one ...
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/ career, connections, direction, identity, Professional Identity