I am preparing for a writing workshop with the communications team at SRC. How to write a popular science feature. We were given a list of reference pieces to read, stories about bilingualism, de-extinction, water goddesses, and really old trees. Long and very long articles where science, the lives of extraordinary people and snapshots ofContinue reading “the anti-climatic nature of knowledge”
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from thesis to article
I haven’t only been cleaning data this fall, though. Since I’m working with the same supervisors and in the same general geographical study area, the line between my current project and the finished master’s project has become a little bit blurred. As part of my work, I have therefore also been allowed to edit myContinue reading “from thesis to article”
the jungle of West African statistics
I’m cleaning data. Tracing changes to Ghana’s district divisions, trying to make different datasets match. Data collected by different ministries is not always consistent, district names are spelled differently, districts having been split means data collected at different times needs to be merged. Having several spreadsheets and a GIS open at once on my two screens,Continue reading “the jungle of West African statistics”
to start a career in research
Work got properly started. I got an office. My GIS computer arrived. And I sat there, hidden away in my little nook on the fourth floor, getting more and more confused. I made the realization that research is a disconcerting endeavor, at least in the beginning of a project, and that made me feel nonplussed.Continue reading “to start a career in research”
Katja Malmborg 