“I came, but can I see?” XIX: Interview done…time to wait(#NWOVidi2025diaries)

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“I came, but can I see?” XVIII: To kill a mocking interview (#NWOVidi2025diaries)

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“I came, but can I see?” XVII: Interview scheduled for September 4!(#NWOVidi2025diaries)

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“I came, but can I see?” XVI: The reviews are overwhelming!(#NWOVidi2025diaries)

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“I came, but can I see?” XV: The reviews are in!(#NWOVidi2025diaries)

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“I came, but can I see?” XIV: Proposal admissible and under review!(#NWOVidi2025diaries)

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“I came, but can I see?” XIII: Proposal submitted!(#NWOVidi2025diaries)

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Critical Tourism Studies PhD Graduate Workshop (Summer School): 25 May – 3 June 2026 at Wageningen University & Research

Course schedule DatesStart timeEnd timeLocationCoordinatorregistrationsapp/max  May 25-June 3, 2026WageningenMarcella HaanApply Course description The Centre of Expertise for Transformative Mobilities at WUR (CENTMOB), invites to a graduate workshop on Critical Tourism Studies focused on systematically and critically investigating complex socio-environmental dynamics, governance structures, power relations and inequalities in relation to mobilities. Through the democratization of travel, transport … Continue reading Critical Tourism Studies PhD Graduate Workshop (Summer School): 25 May – 3 June 2026 at Wageningen University & Research

Teaching across cultures: lost in translation?

After a shifting career ambition of becoming a TV News broadcaster and then dreaming of becoming an architect, I finally settled on the romantic idea of becoming an academic...I find myself looking back to see if my romantic ideas match up with reality – especially in the context of what I have encountered through the Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (LTHE) course....I'm left pondering though, on how my teaching skills and experience developed in the Ghana and the UK will translate to the Dutch context. 

Thoughts on Ghana…so far (2nd November, 2014)

What serendipity is this!?! I have been searching for a document I remember I had once made listing all the cost/scholarship amounts of my expensive university education so far. I just couldn't remember the name of this document so I was going folder by folder opening every word file I come across with the faint … Continue reading Thoughts on Ghana…so far (2nd November, 2014)