After a week and a half of playing tourist-explorer in Malaysia, I found myself part reclined on a rather comfortable couch in the concierge of the Swiss Garden Hotel in… Read more A ‘Simple’ 2019 resolve made in Melaka (Malacca) →
Jalan Petaling Street – Chinatown . That’s where I met the sweet petite lady with auburnish-black hair. She wore a red blouse, black glasses and had a black bag which… Read more On a couch in Kuala Lumpur →
It has been nothing short of a comical fortnight as I have been frantically trying to get myself organised for fieldwork. At some point I thought I would be without… Read more One of those fortnights →
A couple of months ago I came across the hashtag ‘#filthyrichhomeless‘ on Twitter. I cannot quite recall the specifics of the tweet that introduced me to this hashtag, but the tweet was,… Read more Filthy Rich & Homeless →
I had the opportunity to attend a superb lecture on influencing policy. The lecture was delivered by Professor Paul Cairney from Stirling University, and following his talk there was a thought-provoking… Read more Influence →
After what seemed like a lifetime of searching, skimming, reading, selecting and discarding articles, I eventually decided to focus my research on two interrelated wicked issues – housing and homelessness.… Read more Wicked problems →
At the start of 2018 I went in search of a notebook and after hours of going back and forth between shelves I finally settled on a simple blue… Read more Make it happen! →
Mopane Couch Musings 