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getting by and getting on
I’ve spent a lot of time online shopping these last two weeks. Shopping for food. Before we went to Australia we’d let the store cupboard run down as we didn’t want to come home to rats, mice or moths. When … Continue reading
Posted in academic writing, pandemic
Tagged Kindness, phdpandemic, VirutalnotViral, wellbeing
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what to do now?
zoom zoom spotify what’s app email wix facetime zoom skype Instagram email twitter teams twitch zoom youtube skype email email email wix twitter zoom zoom I have put more apps on my screens during the last week than in the … Continue reading
Posted in academic writing, ethics of care
Tagged @virtualnotviral, ethics of care, pandemic, Pat Thomson, Web Foundation
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managing research risks – riding the wave of #phdpandemic
A lot of research doesn’t go to plan. Researchers encounter a few hiccups along the way and in order to avoid problems, they make adjustments to their process. The research goes ahead, just slightly differently. But what usually goes wrong … Continue reading
Pandemics and PHDs
The pandemic is upon us. My university is moving rapidly online with everyone who can working at home. I’ve seen a lot on social media about how to teach online, whether to teach on line, and how to offer students … Continue reading
research as creative practice
Health warning – this is a tiny rant about one of my pet peeves, research “training”. It also draws on my own research in creativity and education. My starting point – Research is a creative process. The connection between research … Continue reading
writing advice – caveat emptor
Advice. Loads of it. Coming out of our ears. And on every possible topic, including research and writing. Advice needs readers. But we readers also need to be, as Ernest Hemingway put it, “crap detectors”. Howard Rheingold has worked up … Continue reading
Posted in academic writing, advice, crap detection, Howard Rheingold, poor advice
Tagged advice, crap detection, Howard Rheingold
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playing about with data
Not everything we do in our research has to have a definite end point. Sometimes it’s good to set aside all those anxieties about ‘getting through and getting done’. We might even like to take some time to simply play … Continue reading
Posted in academic writing, data, data analysis, play
Tagged data, data analysis, data play, Pat Thomson, play
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