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I was working in Laos when I decided to do a Ph.D. The idea crept up on me and its origins were obscure for a while, even to me. It didn’t seem to have a rational basis and it certainly didn’t have an economic one. It wasn’t a career move – I didn’t want to be an academic and it wouldn’t get me a promotion in my work on international development assistance projects. But if truth be told, towards the end of a three year project with a gruelling pace, I wanted time out. I wanted time to reflect on international development assistance in general and my role in it in particular.
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Achren, L. (2012). Researching Culture, Realising Self. In: Ryan, M. (eds) Reflections on Learning, Life and Work. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-025-5_1
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