Facebook has just reminded me it’s 15 years since my doctoral graduation. Heavens, where did the time go?
Two Knees and a PhD
Summer 2009 was quite a summer! I submitted my thesis. He had two knee replacements, three months apart. He walked comfortably at my graduation ceremony.
Since then? Too much to enumerate. The thesis became a book. I contributed chapters to others’ essay collections. I published another book last month.
Why would a Librarian want a PhD?
Someone asked that, before I even started. I think I’ve demonstrated why.
Why would a Librarian want a PGCert?
Someone asked that, too. It seemed a good move at the time, and I have recently been doing a little teaching cover, proving that this wasn’t such a bad idea, either.
If one thing is certain, I wouldn’t now have a semi-retired existence as a postdoctoral research fellow, if I hadn’t found three old flute manuscripts in a cupboard that was being dismantled, a couple of years before I started the PhD.
No regrets.
Karen McAulay, Musicologist 