Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 12:55:37 +1200
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From: Maxine Campbell <maxine@waikato.ac.nz>
Subject: Re: Ruth McManus
Hi Ruth

Since not everybody will want to plough through my response to you in hopes
of some pearl of wisdom, perhaps you could send me you individual email
address.  I'm also doing my Doctorate and tutoring second year courses here,
though I suspect our financial arrangements differ somewhat.  As a general
comment, I'd have to say the teaching can be a distraction at times, but
this is more than compensated for by the experience it provides and the
periodic feeling that with my students I am swimming in a pool of ideas
which might not otherwise be available to me.  It is rewarding not only in
terms of the progress the students make, but in the very real contribution
they make to my own thinking.

It would be good to compare notes with you

Cheers, Maxine Campbell
Dept of Sociology
University of Waikato
New Zealand
email: maxine@waikato.ac.nz

At 02:49 PM 7/23/97 +1200, you wrote:
>I'm a PhD candidate  at Massey University - New Zealand. Just starting out
>in my first six months. Funding has been through a graduate assistantship.
>How do others find the combination of research and teaching? Also, I'm
>looking into the social representation of suicide. I'd like to get in touch
>with others exploring the areas of suicide and or
>representation/construction of discourse of power.
>Cheers
>Ruth McManus
>Sociology Dept.
>Massey University
>New Zealand.
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