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February 1, 2021

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It’s always interviews!

This is a useful resource by Neha Jain offered by TQR and makes qual researchers think about the ubiquity of interviewing and how other methods may be fruitful in exploratory…

Thursday, April 1st, 2021 in RDF DOMAIN A1 KNOWLEDGE BASE

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Making full use of MS Word to produce your thesis or progression report

Word is often under- or poorly used, mainly because we may not be practised in its functionality in its entirety. This can be easily addressed with a little effort. I…

Monday, March 1st, 2021 in RDF DOMAIN A1 KNOWLEDGE BASE, RDF DOMAIN B3 PROFESSIONAL & CAREER DEVELOPMENT

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Writing for publication – finding an angle and an argument

Another excellent set of advice from patter – with eight points on finding your argument when writing an article for publication.

Monday, February 1st, 2021 in RDF DOMAIN D2 COMMUNICATION & DISSEMINATION

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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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