Tom Nicholas

In this latest episode of Essay Tips, I take a look at how to find citations and references for essays and assignments, particularly at undergraduate level. Looking back at my video on using Google Scholar, I thought it worth putting together a more entry-level video with help for bibliography preparation.

In this latest episode of What the Theory? I take a look at phenomenology, time and dasein (Heidegger's concept of consciousness) through the example of Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk, the narrative of which is incredibly playful with how human beings experience time and consciousness.

In February and March 2018, UK university students will face significant disruption due to strike action taken by the University and College Union (UCU). I wanted to do a quick PhD vlog which gives a little bit of an insight into why I am striking as well as the potential damage that the current USS pensions dispute could cause to university education in the UK.

Modernism; it can be confusing. So, in today's What The Theory? I wanted to provide something of a modernism crash course. We'll be looking at many different forms of modernist art as well as a tiny bit of modernist architecture and modernist literature.

Last week, the BBC broadcast the 2017 Almeida Theatre production of Hamlet on BBC Two. Directed by Robert Icke and with Andrew Scott in the title role, this production of perhaps Shakespeare's most famous play does more than simply apply a filter to the text but, instead, carries out some deep interventions into the narrative of Hamlet.

What is postmodernism? This is certainly my most requested What the Theory? video yet. In it, I hope to provide an introduction to postmodernist theory and postmodernist philosophy. Along the way, we'll look at simulacra and Baudrillard's concepts of a simulacrum and hyperreality as well as Wittengenstein's concept of language-games.

In this latest episode of What The Theory?, I hope to provide an introduction to Marxism, culture and Marxist Literary Criticism and Theory. We're going to begin with the economic theories of Marx and Engels, particularly their base and superstructure approach to analysing societal structures. We'll then continue by looking at how these have informed a Marxist approach to literary theory but also how we can transpose these ideas into a wider Marxist cultural theory.

For the first "proper" episode of my Politix series, we're diving in to Tina Fey's Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and Aziz Ansari's Master of None in order to explore how each show represents Millennials, or the Millennial generation.

I've recently been putting the ideas from Deep Work by Cal Newport into practice in order to get a better PhD work life balance. Having just moved house, things have been a little hectic and, thus, productivity has taken a bit of a hit.

In this month's episode of What the Theory?, we take a look at colonialism and imperialism. More specifically we look at the politics of colonialism and the appearance of colonialist ideology in culture.

With BoJack Horseman Season Five being released on Netflix a week and a bit ago, I thought I’d add to the avalanche of BoJack Horseman analysis videos already on YouTube by tackling how the series critiques our relationship with the recent past.

With the new academic year just underway, I wanted to collate together what I think are the top 5 apps for PhD students or, indeed, anyone undertaking a postgraduate course of study.

In this month's episode of What the Theory?, we're diving into postcolonialism with an intro to postcolonial theory in literature, film and culture.

In this month's episode of What the Theory?, we're looking at Cultural Materialism, an approach to understanding culture developed by Raymond Williams. Foundational to cultural studies, cultural materialism (a close relation to new historicism), draws influence from both Marxist Literary Criticism and Liberal Humanism in order to develop a "sociology of culture".

In this video, I look at how to write an abstract for a research paper with examples drawn from my own experience as a PhD Student. Writing an abstract can be tough, knowing what to include in an abstract and what to leave out when trying to summarise your conference paper or journal article in such a short amount of space can be particularly frustrating as these few hundred words will be what represents your work to conference organisers or potential readers.