Handy hints for PhD students
Nick Hopwood’s latest post is a must-read for the qualitative methodologists among us. What I love about this harkens to the beginning of my doctoral research when someone who should’ve…
One of the elements that I personally think denotes an obvious shift in someone’s approach to scholarly writing, is when the researcher begins to view their text from the point…
As the world of research moves forward, major efforts are being made to change everyone’s access to research and its data – this can only be a positive move –…
This is pretty handy and may help you to develop your focus for kick-starting your first year. TheFirst100Days All credit goes to www.ithinkwell.com.au (Kearns & Finn 2017).
This is an interesting piece with a link to an instructional video. Definitely worth a look for anyone planning how to approach the management and organisation of their data and…
This is a worthwhile watch for anyone actively engaged in DA or who is thinking about using it as their analytical approach.
Anyone who is not working with hypotheses, will know the strain of fretting over whether you are asking the ‘right’ or the ‘best’ questions. If you are in the early…
I’m already a huge fan of Professor Pat Thomson’s work. She doesn’t just teach this stuff, she lives it. I find that the detailed descriptions of her experience, and of…
The MOOC has an upgrade option, but otherwise it’s free to doctoral researchers. Emily Purser & The FutureLearn team have collaborated to produce this online course. Here’s an extract that…
All scientists and engineers experience these, especially when it comes to having to write up all the work that’s been done. To quote patter: “Jan Meyer and Roy Land developed the…