And looking back, this time last year we spent our summer sorting out and resourcing our anthropology lab.\u00a0Oh, and lets not forget that we still have our Masters students working away here, and my PhD students are just as demanding over the summer months as they are during the rest of the year…<\/p>\n I know people don\u2019t mean to annoy me when they ask if I\u2019m off for six weeks, but part of the reason it grates is because it chimes with comments like those recently from Lord Adonis who stated that he felt that university staff don\u2019t teach enough<\/a>. These comments are as ill-informed as they are unhelpful, and his example of being at Oxford back in the day is so hilariously inappropriate for our current increasingly marketised higher education sector that many academics could only respond with dripping sarcasm.<\/p>\n So I\u2019ll say it again before someone else asks – no, we do not get a six week holiday over the summer. Right – that\u2019s it off my chest until next summer then…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There\u2019s no point in having a blog if you can\u2019t get things off your chest. So here it is for this week – I\u2019m being driven mad by the number of people asking me if I\u2019m now off for six weeks like teachers. I\u2019m not a teacher! I do not have a gaping summer vacation! Stop asking that every year! For sure, I take time off over the summer, and that\u2019s important, but it\u2019s also a key period for getting things done, as others have…<\/span>Continue Reading “For the love of God, I do not have a six week summer holiday…”<\/span> ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/tjuthompson\/files\/2017\/07\/20170727_160315.jpeg\")
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