(Edited from an e-mail to some colleagues back home.)
The Finnish post-secondary system is more aggressive than I had anticipated. The deadline for spring PhD admissions (a complete literature review, research plan, and program timeline to be entered into a competitive review that seems to have an analogous role to the comprehensive examinations) was three weeks after my arrival in May (the department, faculty, and government paperwork did not fully resolve until July). I've extended the interdisciplinary pattern by acquiring a botanist and a computer security researcher as supervisors in addition to two from MIS.
I took seriously the local suggestion to prepare and submit a couple of manuscripts based on original research during the summer. A rebel international relations journal has accepted a paper of mine about the role of emergent internet organizations for publication in September. I've just returned from the first of several site visits in relation to long-term research infrastructures and networks (conveniently, the university's well-appointed northern research station is a key node). And I am co-supervising an MSc student as of yesterday.
I will be in the US at the end of September representing Finland a conference. That provides an opportunity to pass through the old research group for a visit, and also to sort out some NSERC bureaucracy.
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