#Reverb10

Reverb 10 and Gwen Bell just happened across my twitter account... and have drawn me back to my blog which I have neglected like some pimply, snotty-nosed step-child for over a year.

I've done a twitter reverb of days 1-5... but thought I would collect them here in reverse order...

Day 5: Let go?: Academic career... maybe.

The shift out of Africa (quite literally) back to Oz has made me rethink the question of academia, and my involvement in it. I should probably qualify the above, I think I've left my discipline behind, as much as that makes me sad. But embraced the possibility and wonder of social entrepreneurship and participatory culture as tools for redesigning curricula and pedagogy.

Day 4: Sense of wonder?: spending time with my lovely Lauren, be it via the interwebs or gloriously when we are in the same space.

Day 3: Most alive?: Enthusiastic discussion of ideas, mostly with Ms Phillippa Wheaton, Executive Director of enke: Make Your Mark.

Day 2: holding me back from writing & how to change?: Lack of confidence in my authorial 'voice' - answer: get in the fray.

I've had talks with all kinds of academics and I think this is something that many ECRs struggle with, finding a voice and engaging with the larger public. So I think I need to brave my own fears and engage (consequently dusting this one off, rather than starting a new one!).

Day 1: word of the year: change. Moved continents, careers and 'lifestyles'.

December 6 2009, living in Johannesburg, South Africa, Lecturer (International Studies) and single.

December 6 2010, living in Melbourne, Manager (so in admin) and in a long-distance relationship.

But change is more amorphous than the 'content' of my life, I have been challenged to rethink, reimagine and reinterrogate what I think and believe and why, mostly at the prompting of the ladies listed above - but also so many others!

So that's where it's at.

I'm really looking forward to Day 6!