Category: Self-Efficacy
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Short lived relief!
So yesterday at 4:46 pm I officially emailed the final, finished copy of my 10,000 word confirmation report to my supervisors and research services. I most certainly felt relief, even though I was not 100% happy with my method and data analysis section. But all evening I was relaxed and happy, not a care in…
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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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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…
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Whiteboard update!
Well it seems I need to update my whiteboard because the discussion piece that I wrote with Trixie James has officially, as of yesterday, been accepted. That is my 4th publication and my 2nd journal article so I am still rather excited. Yesterday was a day filled with good news. I had a conversation with…
Equity in higher education - An Australian researcher 