Academic Dancing is a website I’ve set up to share my thoughts on the world and my PhD studies.
As a woman from a working class background who had only ever worked for small business or been self employed, moving into higher education about ten years ago was a massive culture shock. I had to learn to dance my way around new culture and unwritten rules of higher education.
My love of dancing started as a child. It took years of nagging my mother before my devout Christian family allowed me to go to ballet lessons. In my 20′s, at a large geographic and conceptual distance from my family, I took up belly dancing and started performing and teaching professionally a few years later. 25 years later I maintain my passion for dance and practice both ballet and belly dancing regularly.
This blog is where I write about what is of interest and importance to me. Topics include work in progress on my PhD, comments on mainstream media and academic articles, thoughts about universities and higher education in general, and of course dancing and dance teaching.
Latest from Cathyrn's blog
As a child, where I grew up in north-west Tasmania was simply the place I grew up. On school holidays my siblings and I played at home, went to the local beach, went on outings with our parents, or stayed at our grandparents’ shack. At the time these were...
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I started this blog a few years back to push me to write. I was planning to write about my PhD and the dancing about one has to do to meet the challenges of working in higher education. I wanted to push myself to write more and to write...
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