Today’s one of the biggest in British politics and UK-EU relations for a long time (and given recent history, that’s a pretty high bar), and I’ve got lots to be doing on that.
But I’m writing this blog.
At the end of the week, I’m putting in my paperwork for promotion, where I know that I’m going to be judged primarily on my ‘proper research’ outputs.
But I’ve spent a week putting together L&T panels for conferences.
I’ve got a draft paper on Brexit that needs me to sit down and do some more work on it, to get it closer to submission.
But I also need to do some reading for the supervision of my doctoral student, working on pedagogy.
Why?
Victor put it nicely here: L&T scholarship matters, whether or not others realise it.
On my (purely anecdotal) evidence, I have given a lot more people direct help and advice on L&T than on anything else I’ve done, and through the wonder of teaching, that has shaped a stack of lives.
So even when there’s a lot of other stuff to be getting on with, don’t not get on with this too.