Category: PhD

• 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…

  australianequityresearcher

  17th Jun 2022

  PhD, Research Methods, Self-Efficacy

• 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,…

  australianequityresearcher

  16th Jun 2022

  PhD, Self-Efficacy

• 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…

  australianequityresearcher

  13th Jun 2022

  PhD, Uncategorized

• PhD – How I got started

  I will absolutely write an entry about where my PhD is at now and then keep that updated but I think the story so far is really worth telling. I have been working as an academic for 6 and a half years now, 5 as a sessional (casual) and then the last 1.5 years here…

  australianequityresearcher

  12th Jun 2022

  PhD, Self-Efficacy