Fieldwork is considerable,but it’s expensive. In financially constrained times, we need to try thinking creativelyAs the government’s recent green paper on higher education underlines in its own nebulous way, and austerity and imagination are becoming ever more entwined. The spectre of the first increasingly demands the use of the moment. By way of illustration,let me disclose you a story about some of my recent research.
Two of my favourite things are music and careers - which arrive together beautifully in the BBC Radio 4 classic Desert Island Discs. My research collaborator, Jo Duberley, and is also a fan,so we were both delighted when, in 2012, or podcasts of all the shows made over the course of the programme’s 70-year history became available.
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Source: theguardian.com