Category: PhD
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Confirmation…and now waiting again!
It is REALLY difficult to outline a PhD sized project in 10,000 words. It is even harder to discuss it in 20 minutes, which is what I attempted to do today in my confirmation presentation. Everyone commented that my project was valuable, well chosen and worthy of researching. That was very positive. They also said…
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Another review back!
I have not got a lot to share today. In fact I’d say the last week or so has just been a blur of preparing for my confirmation presentation, keeping up with emails and student enquiries and marking assessments. However! The team I’m on with Tim Fish and others from Monash and Deakin University did…
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and… marking hits
I have ALMOST finished the slides for my confirmation of candidature presentation but I haven’t yet done a proper run through, have really only THOUGHT about what I’m going to say for each slide. I have some time tomorrow so I’m feeling A-OK about that. At the moment I’m most worried about marking. I have…
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Back on the road again
I am indeed back on the road again, back to normal, feeling great! At the same time, I feel like the picture above best represents that road! It’s not a peaceful journey through calm countryside, it is a blur! I wouldn’t have it any other way. It’s almost 10am on a Saturday and so far…
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2 days to go!
Today seems to be such a mixed day! Trixie James and I received notification that our article has been published which was fantastic. It is those “winning” moments that keep me going. I have emailed the pdf to as many people as I could think of… and received some wonderfully encouraging replies too. Plus there…
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Getting close now!
My confirmation report is due next Wednesday and that is a bit surreal. At the same time I know that I should not overthink it. They just need to know that I wasn’t born yesterday, that I HAVE in fact done some reading, I do in fact know some stuff and that my project is…
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Deadline approaching!
My confirmation of candidature report is currently 2800 words over the limit. It’s going to go up before it comes back down again! I will be able to cut a reasonable amount from the method section but I also have to add more in around how I’m going to analyse my data. It might end…
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Survey creation #1
Fair to say that I was very concerned and frustrated when I realised I had about 2 weeks to create my survey but I am feeling better about it now. I’m also thankful that I spent hours and hours a while back playing around with Qualtrics, the survey creating software the university uses, learning how…
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Confirmation of Candidature #1
My PhD is incorporating publications and we (being my supervisors and I) agreed early on that the first 2 would be literature reviews. That became Scoping Literature Reviews (SLR) quite quickly as systematic literature reviews did not suit as well. The trouble has been that they insisted I examined every single search result I had,…
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The calm before the storm!
I only have a few meetings this week but that is a really good thing because I only have this week and then I am away for 3 weeks! I have to finish marking all the assignments that were submitted late and basically let everyone know I wont be available for 3 weeks. Of course…
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