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Tag Archives: Simon Bailey
surviving (and maybe even thriving) as a career contract researcher
The final and fifth post in this series on being a researcher on other people’s projects comes from Dr Simon Bailey. Simon is Research Fellow, CLAHRC Greater Manchester Alliance, Manchester Business School. I’m what you might call a career contract researcher. This wasn’t … Continue reading
the business of self presentation
This is a follow on to a recent patter post about writing the self into the introduction to the thesis. It takes up the issue of how different disciplines frame the ways in which the self is presented in the text – or not. … Continue reading
doctoral training and the messiness of research
This post is written by Simon Bailey, a Research Fellow in the Business School at the University of Manchester. As a unique contribution to knowledge, doctorates are by definition very individual things. Though planning is very important, plans must be … Continue reading
messy research: the ethics of recruiting participants
This guest blog by Dr Simon Bailey, a research fellow at the Manchester Business School, addresses a very messy area in research – that of the basis on which we recruit people to our projects. WHAT’VE THE RESEARCHERS EVER DONE … Continue reading
Posted in ADHD, ethics, mess, research methods, research plan, rules of engagement
Tagged ADHD, research mess, research participants, Simon Bailey
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academic travel diary: coping with mess
So on this trip home to Australia my passport disappeared. I maintain it was stolen in Tullamarine somewhere in the jostle between Customs and the car park. This was almost a disaster because not only did it mean that I … Continue reading
Posted in mess, research methods, research project
Tagged mess in research, Pat Thomson, research methods, Simon Bailey, travel
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