I don't want to attribute achievements down to individual "hard work"
My luck boils down to:
✨ open borders for immigrants from struggling countries
✨ a non-discriminatory welfare state
✨ libraries
✨ supportive community and supervisory figures
And again ✨dumb luck✨
It's the second anniversary of my PhD defence. Since, I've published all (5) papers of my PhD & landed 2 post-doctoral jobs.
I am a council-estate state-schooled benefit-claiming first-gen immigrant from a rough area of Bolton. That somehow turned into an academic & artist.