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November 12, 2015

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Literature Reviewing Skills 1 – CRITIQUING TOOLS

Literature Reviewing Skills 1 LR1 CROWE CCAT LR1 – COTTRELL LR1 – HART LR1 – RIDLEY LR1 – SHON      

Monday, January 25th, 2021 in RDF DOMAIN A2 COGNITIVE ABILITIES, RDF DOMAIN D2 COMMUNICATION & DISSEMINATION

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NVivo: Excellent Advice from a Renowned Expert Colleague

Want to know more about how to use NVivo? I really like the book “Qualitative Data Analysis with NVivo”. It walks readers through the software, explains how to use it…

Saturday, January 2nd, 2021 in RDF DOMAIN A2 COGNITIVE ABILITIES

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Writing Up A Science Thesis

No two doctoral theses are the same. Knowing which writing conventions are common to most theses versus which writing components are unique to the content and presentation of your work…

Tuesday, December 1st, 2020 in RDF DOMAIN D2 COMMUNICATION & DISSEMINATION

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Engineers writing…

The craft of scholarly writing is sometimes overlooked by some when it comes to our colleagues in the engineering disciplines, yet all engineers write – and across a variety of…

Saturday, November 21st, 2020 in RDF DOMAIN D2 COMMUNICATION & DISSEMINATION

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Patient and Public Involvement: How to Find the Right People

Produced by some of our excellent doctoral researchers here at Bradford, this is a free resource with an accompanying peer-reviewed publication: Tomlinson, J., Medlinskiene, K., Cheong, V. et al. (2019) Patient…

Saturday, October 3rd, 2020 in RDF DOMAIN A1 KNOWLEDGE BASE, RDF DOMAIN A3 CREATIVITY, RDF DOMAIN B1 PERSONAL QUALITIES, RDF DOMAIN C1 PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT, RDF DOMAIN C2 RESEARCH MANAGEMENT

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Writing with Authority

Another excellent, clear, helpful post from patter: This is about writing with authority and working away from what’s termed ‘protective scaffolding’.

Monday, August 24th, 2020 in RDF DOMAIN B3 PROFESSIONAL & CAREER DEVELOPMENT, RDF DOMAIN D2 COMMUNICATION & DISSEMINATION

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Publishing Journal Articles: Tips for Early-Career Scholars

Useful for all scholars across disciplines, I think. Some basics for if you are planning to publish during or immediately following your PhD. It’s by Keisha Blain in Inside Higher…

Friday, August 21st, 2020 in RDF DOMAIN A3 CREATIVITY, RDF DOMAIN D2 COMMUNICATION & DISSEMINATION

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Interviews for data collection

Sometimes, the best advice is the simplest and most common sense. I think this Twitter thread is incredibly illuminating for those new to researcher interviewing.          …

Saturday, May 16th, 2020 in RDF DOMAIN A1 KNOWLEDGE BASE, RDF DOMAIN A2 COGNITIVE ABILITIES, RDF DOMAIN B1 PERSONAL QUALITIES

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Ideas for Writing During the Pandemic

This is a useful resource to stimulate thinking about getting some writing done. WRITING COVID    

Friday, May 1st, 2020 in RDF DOMAIN A3 CREATIVITY, RDF DOMAIN B1 PERSONAL QUALITIES, RDF DOMAIN B2 SELF-MANAGEMENT, RDF DOMAIN D1 WORKING WITH OTHERS, RDF DOMAIN D2 COMMUNICATION & DISSEMINATION

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Qualitative Design: Narrative, Phenomenological and Action Research

Although these hail from the field of psychology, there are useful perspectives and insightful information here that any discipline could adapt. Distinguished Researcher Interview #3: James Christopher Head interviews Ruthellen…

Thursday, April 16th, 2020 in RDF DOMAIN A1 KNOWLEDGE BASE, RDF DOMAIN A2 COGNITIVE ABILITIES, RDF DOMAIN A3 CREATIVITY

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