Chris Wickham

Overcoming a Sense of Academic Failure

Overcoming a Sense of Academic Failure

Many of us have phases where we have no idea what we’re doing, or everything feels like...

TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities

TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities

The University of Oxford is home to an impressive range and depth of research activitie...

Title	Description	People	Date	Captions
4 What to do About Failure: Personal Attitudes.	How to change your own attitudes to failure and success, and how failure relates to regret.	Susan Blackmore, Julia Bray, Chiara Cappellaro, Barbara Gabrys, Adam Hart-Davis, Jaz Hill-Valler, Leanne Hodson, Dan Holloway, Ritchie Robertson, Emily Troscianko, Chris Wickham	22 May, 2018
3 Failure and the Farewell to Academia.	Why does the idea of leaving academia so often feel like professional failure?	Susan Blackmore, Julia Bray, Rachel Bray, Chiara Cappellaro, Adam Hart-Davis, Jaz Hill-Valler, Emily Troscianko, Chris Wickham	22 May, 2018
2 Failure and Other People	Other people (or our idea of them) can induce feelings of failure and alleviate or transform them.	Susan Blackmore, Julia Bray, Chiara Cappellaro, Barbara Gabrys, Adam Hart-Davis, Jaz Hill-Valler, Leanne Hodson, Dan Holloway, Ritchie Robertson, Emily Troscianko, Chris Wickham	22 May, 2018
1 The Feeling of Failure	What does failure feel like, and what happens when you sit with it?	Susan Blackmore, Julia Bray, Chiara Cappellaro, Barbara Gabrys, Adam Hart-Davis, Jaz Hill-Valler, Leanne Hodson, Dan Holloway, Ritchie Robertson, Emily Troscianko, Chris Wickham	22 May, 2018
Crossing Boundaries: Medievalists in Cross-Disciplinary Conversation	Launch event for the TORCH programme Oxford Medieval Studies	Emma Dillon, Henrike Lähnemann, David Wallace, Chris Wickham	13 January, 2016
Humanities and Science: Randomness and Order	An interdisciplinary discussion exploring the role of randomness and order in physics, probability, history and music.	Ian Walmsley, Jonathan Cross, Alison Etheridge, Chris Wickham	18 February, 2015