A wee Scotland update
Conferences >>> Dissertations
Hello from the Scottish Highlands!
I’ve just returned home from a nice seafood dinner with my parents along the River Ness. On our way back to the Airbnb, I heard live music coming from a nearby pub and paused just long enough to toss off my heavy boots and pull out a few hornpipe steps on the dance floor.
We are in Inverness, a very small city known as the capital of the Scottish highlands. To get here, we took a train 3.5 hours north from Edinburgh. Because we don’t have a car and aren’t planning to do any hiking this time around, the highlight of Inverness has been the welcome slow pace and the used bookstore (pictured below, scent of old books regrettably not captured).
I presented at a child protection-focused conference (the ISPCAN congress) in Edinburgh on Tuesday. The conference was swarming with people from around the world and it was particularly cool to see so many folks from countries in the Middle East and Africa who would not typically attend a conference in the U.S. because it is prohibitively expensive to get there. I feel so grateful to be part of a research team that has the means and the desire to support our participation in a conference like this.
No full newsletter today, but here’s a Tweet for good measure.
(My current attitude, which began the moment I was done taking questions after my conference presentation:)
Love,
Claire
