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Professor of IR @UniofReading. UN, IOs, peacekeeping, legitimacy. Previously @UN in #DRC. Mum, disability advocate, @UCBerkeley/@Georgetown/@UniofOxford alum.
Sep 2, 2020 13 tweets 3 min read
#workingfromhome w/ kids & no childcare is basically impossible. I can do emails/small tasks, but not longer, substantive work. I decided to do a small empirical project to demonstrate why. I documented 1 hour of (trying to) work this morning. Here's how it went: #AcademicChatter 9.00 - #1 asks about whether I should write 16.30 instead of 4.30pm in an email he's watching me type.
9.03 - #3 asks me how to spell princess.
9.04 - #3 asks if I wrote princess or princesses.
9.05 - #3 informs me of items on her birthday wish list (which is in 5 weeks).