Matt Bracher-Smith

Matt Bracher-Smith

Husband and father by day. And also by night. Heroic, handsome, selfless, humble. I’ve been called many things. Unfortunately none of them are listed here. I write about things and stuff. I’m trying to specialise a bit, so I might just write about things.

My thesis was published!

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I think the title says the stuff I came here to say. Yay! A lot of hard work, a viva, (minor) corrections and it’s finally online and out there.

Well done me! You can find it here by the way. I should also say that I mean it’s in an online database hosted by Cardiff University. Not that it was published in a journal. Though I am preparing each chapter for publication.

Still, this is good news and now you can enjoy all 60k+ words :)

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