How to Survive Higher Degree Studies

Seminar by Keyan Tomaselli

The basic language of academia: Town, gown and a Latin drinking song
- How not to get a higher degree
- Psychological aspects of higher degrees
- Characteristics of good research
- Characteristics of good researchers
- What supervisors expect from their students
- What students expect from their supervisors
- And so on...

Reading

Henrich, J., Heine, S.J and Norenzayan, A. (2010). "The Weirdest people in the World", Behavioral Brain Sciences, 1-73 doi:10.1017/S0140525X0999152X.
Tomaselli, K.G. (2005) Where Global Contradictions are Sharpest" Research Stories from the Kalahari. Amsterdam: Rozenberg

This book contains elaborated arguments drawn from:

Tomaselli, K.G. "Stories to Tell, Stories to Sell: Resisting Textualisation", Cultural Studies, 17(6), 2003, 857-876.
Tomaselli, K.G. "Blue is Hot, Red is Cold: Doing Reverse Cultural Studies in Africa", Cultural Studies - Critical Methodologies, 2001, 3, 283-318.