Philosophy Thoughts as and when

As I've already mentioned previously,  you were allowed to ask for help from ANY member of staff. It clearly stated in the department's BA Philosophy handbook 2009-10 (and all subsequent years), under 'Personal Issues', section 5.2 (5.2.1-5.2.2) that students can go to "any members of the...academic staff...in professional confidence". And it's not surprising that as a gay woman I would prefer an empathic woman lecturer! And one I got on with, who isn't prejudiced, and who I was naturally drawn to and 'clicked' with from our very first meeting (the interview) when I wasn't yet a student at BBK,  and one I feel at ease with! It's not something you can force or artificially produce, it either happens or it doesn't. We are very similar to one other. We understand each other.  Like me, she's gender expansive and my kind of feminist.  And no we weren't having a personal relationship, we didn't meet each other in private, and ...

To continue: My turnitin account was handled so badly and suffering continual interference even beyond my college years that I've made sure it's cleared. There's nothing on it and neither should there be. No-one can claim that they can see something on it and make an issue out of it for me or anyone else, at any time. As you can see in my previous post, everyone knows that my preferred name is Liba and it was displayed on both my Birkbeck and Turnitin profiles. Liba is the normal Czech shortened form of the name Libuse, after the Bohemian pagan princess Libuse. (Liba is even a village in the Karlovy Vary region, Czech Republic). However, it's also a Hebrew/Yiddish name for girls ( לִיבָא ) meaning loveable/loved one/heart ❤. Whatever people's issue is with my name, get over it, and use it properly. It's the name I have always been known by, respect that! At uni, I had to suffer receiving emails from my male personal tutor in which he addresses me using an inappr...

Following on from my previous post, I know that my dissertation was put through turnitin by someone (I set up a turnitin account as we were asked to do) because I have an email receipt dated 6 June 2013 which clearly shows this is the case. It looks as though I put it through because turnitin thanks me in that auto-email. I didn't manage to upload it to Turnitin. But obviously somebody did, especially since there is a copy of my dissertation on Turnitin. It is technically possible for someone other than the student to upload students' work to turnitin, which turnitin expects to be the instructor ie. the tutor marking the work, not an administrator (such as the admin Team Leader, Robert Brown). Turnitin expects the uni's admin to check that the correct tutors are written down and verified.  Indeed, I note that turnitin's info on their website states that it is part of universities' Acceptable Use Policy (and consequently their legal agreement with turnitin) that univ...

Just to clear up any possible confusion: I have been an Independent Researcher since July 2013, having completed my BA Philosophy degree in May (all exams done☑️; coursework (two Level 6 extended essays) and dissertation submitted 20/05/13 and handed-in☑️ together with the anti-plagiarism statement* see below) and no longer a student as of June 2013 because it was the end of my course. My college ID card and my Senate House Library card also expired in June. Therefore, I waited until July 31st (date of transcript) before becoming an Independent Researcher/Scholar. This is because you cannot be a student and an Independent Researcher and Scholar simultaneously. The word 'independent' means not studying in an institution or even being affiliated to one. It also means not using their resources which, in my case, meant BBK's library and Senate House Library. A nd certainly not being funded by them. In June 2013 BBK offered to pay the fees for my final year that the government g...

Woke is good. It means being aware and alert to discrimination and injustices in society and the world in general. The opposite of it is just being rude, totally insensitive to others and plain anti-social in that you lack understanding and awareness of injustice, prejudice and discrimination and dismiss it, and any suffering arising from it, as unimportant, exaggerated and see 'woke' as amounting to a left-wing crazy notion.  Universities are not left wing, as people seem to assume, not sure they ever were in any meaningful way! It's an ideological myth to think so! For instance, Kings College, (KCL) which used to be a London Uni college, was founded by a king (King George IV) for the purpose of running after liberals and secularists at London University. London Uni (founded 1826, now UCL) was supported by Utilitarians e.g. JS Mill; Jews and non-conformists with the aim of being a secular institution (which was why I went there!!). 3 years later, in 1829, up pops Kings Col...