Category: PhD
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Proud to report some achievements … and some set backs!
First of all I had an absolutley marvelous time at the Student Success Conference! It was my first one and it felt like home. I knew more people than I expected to but I think that is because now NAEEA has partnered with this conference. So many enabling program people there! It was SO encouraging!…
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May? My goodness!
Well I’m not quite sure how it ended up the end of April with May just around the corner! I have been lost in marking recently and attempting to balance that and the personal grief I am still going through. The NAEEA SIGs are going well and both groups got our papers submitted by the…
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Minor Revisions!
I was overjoyed to receive a “Minor revisions required” on what I have called “The COVID article” that I wrote with Dr. Susan Emmett. Sue and I originally wrote the article in 2021 or MAYBE 2022. It has been desk rejected at least 3 times, but I think 4 times. We submitted it to this…
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PhD life goes on!
I guess the initial excitement of being able to continue to receive the stipend (RTP Scholarship) payments has worn off a little, but then I look at my bank account and I am happy again! Despite this I am going to apply for a second part time position (online) and hope for the best. It’s…
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Got my cake and I’m eating it too!
Last year I wont the RTP scholarship but after all the crazy stuff going on in my personal life I took 6 months leave from my PhD. When I got the scholarship I had to be doing my PhD full time to receive the payment (which significantly reduced my financial stress). But when my 6…
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Overdue update
I have been playing around with Microsoft Designer lately. Below is an image I got it to create of myself… I’m not sure that my face is quite that round but I like it! I also used Microsoft Designer to create an image promoting a webinar that I did with the Mental Health and Wellbeing…
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It hit the fan!
I consider myself a professional. Today I really didn’t feel like being around people at all but I delivered a class that I think was exceptionally good. It was on paraphrasing and I started with a brief summary of the paraphrasing techniques that were discussed in the lecture. Then I asked students to paraphrase 2…
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Mixed update
I laughed at the title I just wrote – Mixed Update! Hahaha everything seems very mixed at the moment! Everything I tell you! I spent $200 to buy a better coffee machine for the staff room and no one uses it. That probably explains why no one has said thank-you. Recruitment has officially started for…
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Term 1 Orientation
Today is the main day for STEPS students Orientation for Term 1 here at CQUniversity. Orientation always makes me reflect on my own journey and it’s good because I have come a long way from when I first stepped foot on the Gippsland Campus of Monash University. Long way! But the journey has been hard…
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So far… So… So… something!
My RTP scholarhip/Stipend kicked in on the 8th of January and I have been working on my PhD full-time since then. I WOULD say so far so good but that is not 100% correct. I should admit right now that I am not 100% clear on what goes in what section of my PhD thesis.…
Equity in higher education - An Australian researcher 