I have certainly had my moments over the last little while. I’ve been terribly frustrated at a number of things, I’ve been confused and overwhelmed. I’ve been mistaken and I’ve been right. Well now I know what I have to do regarding my confirmation, I’m just fuzzy on a few things. The scary one of those things is wondering whether or not the two scoping reviews I have worked on still align with my new and improved research questions. I’m also just not sure what level of detail is needed for various things and I’m hoping (probably in vain) for my supervisors guidance in that area. But I have things I can be working on in the mean time and so I’m plodding along. The big breakthrough was getting my supervisors to agree that I should send participants the interview questions before doing the focus groups. That will allow them some time to reflect and then hopefully I will get the sorts of in-depth answers I’m looking for.

In other news, I’ve resubmitted ethics for the staff project where I’ll be asking enabling staff about their views on equity discourses in higher education. It is going to be my first solo project and I am determined to NOT recruit a co-author at the last minute. So I can already say that I have done the ethics applilcation on my own and that is an achievement…. or it will be once it is approved. One step closer now!

I handed off another article to a team member today as well. That is the one about digital literacy and COVID. Hopefully the other two team members will get the findings/disucssion section done before it gets back to me.

Susan and I had a sort of a shut up and write session for the TAFE project and between us got around 800 words written which was excellent! Happy with that indeed.

So when I look at my whiteboard now there are quite a few projects where I have nothing to do because I’m waiting for peer-review, team members or simlar. Then again there is a lso a few which just say I need to write them! Typical for an academic I guess.