Profile: Heather
Key facts
PhD discipline: English Literature
Area(s) of work: Self-employed writer; dyslexia support tutor; tutor in creative writing
Year of graduation: 2002
Date of Interview: 07/05/2008
Year of graduation: 2002
Date of Interview: 07/05/2008
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Audio Clips
Heather suggests what kind of questions you should ask yourself before committing to becoming a freelance writer.
Heather explores the challenges she faced as a dyslexic PhD researcher.
Heather discusses how the PhD process and her extracurricular activities equipped her for a non-academic career.
Heather explains why she decided against an academic career.
Heather considers how her career path revealed itself to her.
Heather recalls the period during which she finished her PhD and gradually established her career as a freelance writer.
Heather reflects on her PhD experience. She identies aspects of it that she found rewarding and those which were frustrating.
Heather reflects on what the PhD means to her and considers the bearing it has on her self-perception and identity.
