Quote:[SIZE=3]"A Prehistory Of The Black Mountains, SE Wales - Practice, Liminality & Materiality".
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Could turn the title into the more definitive The Prehistory of …and although prehistory is a pretty vague term the The might give you a challenging authority over its application to the Black mountains area which might give you some first in line for a job in that area kudos if one pertaining to prehistory comes up there. Along similar lines, not sure that SE Wales should be a part of the title particularly following the use of prehistory, is it a bit pre-emptive?/restrictive. You could try The prehistory of the Black Mountains, Europe.. or the northern hemisphere and although you might want to check that there are no other black mountains in Europe or the northern hemisphere this ambiguity might be of use in a broader than the Black mountain jobs market. It also suggests that the phd might also have considered, comparatively, the prehistory in the what is not defined area. The problem with the use of SE Wales is that automatically the person who will only ever read the title but might give you a job thinks –What as opposed to NW, or SW,..Wales- also think about applying for a job in North Wales and all the problems that your title might bring up- where as you could have them thinking Eurasia or north vi southern hemisphere. This is the type of command that I think is being looked for in your average digger. As for the rest of your title, brilliant use of words and I suspect that they have made you the person you are now. Absolutely no need to analyse them but how about going for something a bit different but which possibly encapsulates and piques, something like “flogging a dead horse” or “niniy nanny noo”.
Another top tip, do the phd/submit in a year and apply for every single lecturing job and post doc that you can, start on your first day, don’t be shy. Ask for feed back from every rejection and then go and read the phds of those who rejected you. The moral outrage should keep you going for the rest of your life.
Have you considered going self employed.
Reason: your past is my past