Conferences Part II

Rob commented on the previous post:

“Provided you have a paper accepted, and the conference doesn’t clash with other commitments (e.g. teaching), what are the other barriers to participation apart from the registration fee and travel costs? These are the only obstacles that prevent me from attending far more conferences than I do! I’ll enlarge on this [...]

January 8th, 2010 | Tags: , | Category: Academia Nuts | One comment

Conference Concern

I’m happy to own up to something: I don’t like going to conferences.  Out of the handful of conferences I have been to since starting my PhD I have found them frustrating, dull, stressful, too busy, too long, too short, too overloading, too expensive, too broad, too specific…really it was easier to please Goldilocks with porridge [...]

January 5th, 2010 | Tags: , | Category: Academia Nuts, social media | 8 comments