reflection

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 #32: ‘Pen’ to paper

Not literally pen to paper clearly because who uses pens for anything other than signing things and as a left-hander the side of my hand dabs onto the still wet ink and turns into a […]

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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 […]

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Research update #30: Coping with inadequacy

The Pat Thomson topic of the week is: “What I do when I feel inadequate” I suspect the intention is to share positive coping strategies but honestly I don’t know if I have any. Mostly […]

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Research update #27: The reframe

Just a quick note this time about the rather helpful feedback that I got from my supervisors about my evolved research question. I was considering something like: How do and should edvisors in H.E. ensure […]

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Research update #26: The reboot

Here’s this week’s Pat Thomson inspired PhD journal topic: I have learnt since starting the PhD that… I need to rethink my approach and be a little more realistic in my planning. This is the […]

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Research update #23 – The ‘troublemaker’

I went to a cross institute training thing last week and for some reason we did an icebreaker exercise where we had to introduce the person that we were sitting next to to the room. […]

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Looking for a new narrative

I woke from a dream this morning – no, it’s ok, I’m not going to tell you about it in detail – and am now wondering about the kind of story that I see myself […]

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Research update #13

One of my principle reasons for using this blog in my research/study is that it offers an effective and searchable way to put my first-draft thoughts and quotes/references down in a central and searchable space. […]

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Research update #12: Crazy but worthwhile

So I’ve just posted my thoughts on a paper by King & Boyatt about factors that influence the adoption of e-learning. This has taken me far longer to work through than any other paper – though […]

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