A long and interest call yesterday with my brilliant friend Bruce Clark, a senior journalist at The Economist and man of prodigious intelligence.
I mentioned my PhD plans to him and after a little discussion, he said that he tended to be wary of people in their late middle age deciding to do a PhD. He gave me an example of one project he felt sure was doomed to flounder, and then with his customary courtesy he assured me that he thought mine was a different type of PhD project. I certainly think it is, because it's practical, research-based and pretty concrete.
Talking with my piano teacher Sophie Yates about it today, her first response was a wholehearted "that's very interesting".
For me at this point the issues are less about whether the project is of any practical value and application - it certainly would be - but rather about how much I can muster and master the necessary knowledge to pull it all together coherently.
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