#Research Update 54: No more excuses
(Caution – this is very rambly and introspective and I think I largely used this to tease out some ideas that seem quite obvious in hindsight. You can pretty safely skip this post, even if […]
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Research update #53: Methodology or Messodology?
I have identified around 17 different types of data that I want to collect for this research. I have been waiting for people who know more about this than I do to say – ‘you’re […]
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Research update #52: holy shit, I’m a researcher
I mean, I guess I am anyway. After a great deal of panic and uncertainty about my methodology (particularly), I flew through my thesis proposal review/confirmation thing a few weeks ago and it was signed […]
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Research update #48: Proposal writing day 16 – Hitting paydirt
So you know how they say that you’ll never feel like you’ve read enough for your lit review and there comes a point where you just need to stop and work with what you have? […]
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Research update #46: Proposal writing day 11 – improving the good sentence
Another pretty decent day of writing, I think (hope). I’m still possibly procrastinating the research methodology section, which really is kind of small and I’m not sure why I’m avoiding it but the background and […]
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SOCRMx Week #7: Qualitative analysis
I’m nearly at the end of Week #8 in the Social Research Methods MOOC and while I’m still finding it informative, I’ve kind of stopped caring. The lack of community and particularly of engagement from […]
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Research update #34: Learning little things
It’s been way too long since I’ve posted about my research and that’s not great. I seem to be finding a lot of legitimate seeming reasons to do other things – also getting sick – […]
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Week #2 SOCRMx – Surveys
Week 2&3 of the EdinburghX Social Research Methods MOOC sees us starting to dig into a couple of methods from a list of about 8. Being a nerd who really wants to get my head […]
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Research update #33: Making it my own
There’s been something about the updated research questions that I’ve been working with that just hasn’t been sitting right. These are the questions: What strategies do edvisors in HE use to promote understanding of their […]
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Research update #31: Commonalities and differences
Coming back to the ever-reliable Pat Thomson list of things to PhD blog about: Things that I have in common with other PhDers We’re all on the same kind of journey and I assume are […]