Welcome and thank you for joining me on this adventure. For the newbies, you can catch up on previous post: first blog post, second blog post here, third blog post here, fourth blog post here, fifth post here and sixth post here. This week was the school holidays for my kids and spending some quality … Continue reading “I came, but can I see?” VII: ‘Cos 90’_nothing to report … (#NWOVidi2025diaries)
Welcome and thank you for joining me on this adventure. For the newbies, you can catch up on previous post first blog post, second blog post here, third blog post here, fourth blog post here and fifth post here. As already anticipated, this week sort of passed me by amidst teaching (preps) and other commitments. … Continue reading “I came, but can I see?” VI: Making ‘someway bi’ tortoise steps … (#NWOVidi2025diaries)
Welcome and thank you for joining me on this adventure. For the newbies, you can catch up on previous post first blog post, second blog post here, third blog post here and fourth blog post here. I finally got around to starting continuing the process of developing my NWO Vidi full proposal after making it … Continue reading “I came, but can I see?” V: mild panic at 10 weeks countdown to submission… (#NWOVidi2025diaries)
Belated Merry New Year (as the old joke goes). Here is to wishing you all a wonderful relationally joyful 2026! Welcome to the fourth blog post (first post in 2026) in the series: NWO Vidi grant application journey (#NWOVidi2025diaries). For ease of reference, you can check out the first blog post, second blog post here … Continue reading “I came, but can I see?” IV: Cleared for take-off… (#NWOVidi2025diaries)
Welcome to the third blog post in the series: NWO Vidi grant application journey (#NWOVidi2025diaries). You can check out the first blog post here and the second blog post here. In the second blog post I mentioned that I had to do a "revise and resubmit" after the first administrative checks of my submission. In … Continue reading “I came, but can I see?” III: Under review (#NWOVidi2025diaries)
Welcome to the second blog post in the series: NWO Vidi grant application journey (#NWOVidi2025diaries). You can check out the first blog post here where I wrote about how I wrestled with whether to apply or not to apply. In this second blog, I offer a quick update on the process which can be summed … Continue reading “I came, but can I see?” II: Revise and resubmit (#NWOVidi2025diaries)
In the end, I buckled under the allure of the saying that "many hands make light work" and the potential possibility of maybe, I might, likely, perhaps, be in a position to fund another PhD student and a postdoc. Do you realise the tentativeness of the previous sentences? The caveats and the hedges made? Well, … Continue reading “I came, but can I see?”: The NWO Vidi grant application journey (#NWOVidi2025diaries)
Collaborate and contribute to a monumental tapestry about the Dutch Slavery past. The Cultural Geography Chair Group at Wageningen University and Research is the host and coordinator for the making of a piece of the tapestry of the project ‘Threads of our Dutch Slavery Past’. In an earlier iteration of the project last Spring we moved around … Continue reading Tapestry project! Join in at Wageningen University!: Threads of our Dutch Slavery Past (Draden van ons Nederlands Slavernijverleden)
What does it take to translate academic research into valuable resources and elements for societal engagement (and hopefully some societal impact)? In the past couple of months - actually since December 2024 up to now - I have been doing a sort of autoethnography in search of answers to this question. During this time, I … Continue reading The slow hard work of societal impact I: on needles and threads.
In Ghana (Akan Twi) we say that "Ti koro nko agyina" which literally means that "One head (person) does not hold council.". We also know that two is often better than one. In this context, I am delighted to announce that I am now recruiting for a postdoctoral researcher as many hands makes light work. … Continue reading Vacancy Notice: Postdoctoral researcher for ‘Tourism’s intersection with slavery and colonial heritage in the context of cultural memory politics’
Emmanuel Akwasi Adu-Ampong 