Category: PhD
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What’s a routine again?
I don’t want to talk to much about life outside of the university, but Christmas was lonely and New Year’s was sort of ruined when I hurt my toe, requiring 3 stitches! Still I got a bunch of PhD stuff done over that holiday break. That includes 150 sources for the second Scoping Literature Review…
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Confirmation and Conferences
I can’t deny it, things are getting exciting! I leave in 8 days to fly to Adelaide for not one, but TWO conferences! First is the AARE – Australian Association for Research in Education – https://www.aare.edu.au/events/2022-conference/ I have one presenatation in the program which is associated with the team including Tim Fish, Ondine Bradbury and…
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Chip, chip chipping away!
My motivation, just in general, has gone up and down a little in the last little while. I have not been lazy, no not at all. I’ve just spent more time doing random things, replying to emails, reading, contemplating and so on, rather than really getting focused on one task. I guess it is a…
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Progress everywhere!
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…
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Just a quick post!
Just wanted to share the Facebook post above which I put in a Facebook group called “Reviewer 2 must be stopped” which I follow just for laughs. I’ve never had over 1000 likes on a post before! I’m Facebook famous!! Of course I haven’t actaully got to the point in my PhD where all that…
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Reflexivity
Now that I know I actually have 16 weeks and not just 8 to do the revisions for confirmation I have relaxed, a LOT! But the next part I need to write does require more thinking and less reading and writing I guess. I have to add a section to the ethical considerations about reflexivity…
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Happy! So happy! But on the other hand… are you freaking kidding me?
I have not posted much recently because I have been rather busy! The 8 weeks I was given to do the “minor” revisions on my confirmation report was stressful. I have been struggling to wrap my head around some of the things I need to do. I have sent emails telling people I wont be…
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Theoretical Framework
I have been trying desperately to wrap my head around Social Cognitive Theory this last little bit. I just did NOT see how it applied to my project because I am not interested in student behaviors, their choices (agency) and I’m only interested in their environment in that I want to improve enabling programs. I…
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10 days later
It has been 10 days since my confirmation of candidature. I feel more positive overall about it now. That is mostly because of the meeting I had with my supervisors where we were both able to acknowledge that time management leading up to confirmation wasn’t the best. They also presented me some very logical arguments…
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Got the email!
I am very happy I didn’t have to wait a whole week, they sent the confirmation report today! It is still hard to read in parts and feels negative but I just keep telling myself not to take it personally. One thing really positive they said was that my project was timely and really significant…
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