Here’s a little in the spirit of “sometimes it IS worth it” or it gets better…” or “keep going even if you think your research is rubbish”. My very first published article won the Voice and Speech Review Forum Article of the Year Award. I was absolutely floored that I had won. Countless times overContinue reading “And the winner is…”
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making the familiar strange – two book recommendations
Originally posted on patter:
Today, as this post publishes, I’m giving a talk to postgraduate researchers. One of the things I will talk about is why it’s important for all researchers to practice seeing things differently. We already have ways of describing this imperative in research literatures. We talk about reflexivity. We talk about criticality.…
Sh*t just got real…
OK- so I am not really sure that “the sh*t just got real” thing works in this context– I just really wanted an excuse to say that. But, if it means that I need to really get my rear in gear– or my submission date is looming (September 29!!!) and I still do not have aContinue reading “Sh*t just got real…”
#academicgoals
Everyday I wake up with the intension of having this kind of day– one where I am “learning at the edge of what I already know”– I needed this, need these kind of goals working to have more days with “sustained flowing, thinking and writing/talking over time”– except in my PhD work I am aloneContinue reading “#academicgoals”
reasons to write
Originally posted on patter:
I’ve been dipping in and out of a rather pleasurable book about writing. Most people read books about writing for utilitarian reasons – to find a new technique, to see something that might inform their own work, to seek explanations for particular conventions. And so on.?There’s absolutely nothing wrong with these…
Mother Goose
This year- I am home for Mother’s Day- but I leave for another PhD trip in just a couple of weeks… this time I will be gone three weeks, total. I have to fly out on my daughter’s birthday and I will miss my youngest son’s birthday. It is always something. I work hard toContinue reading “Mother Goose”
Woo-Woo-PhD-ing
Sooooo… have any other doctoral researchers out there resorted to obsessively reading their horoscope in an effort to figure out what the hell they are supposed to be doing and how the H-E-double-hockey-sticks one is supposed to do this??? Yeah, me neither, I was asking for a friend… We are serious academics people!!! ButContinue reading “Woo-Woo-PhD-ing”
Hello My Name is Mamalegato and I am a Procrastibaker.
I belong to a Facebook group for PhD and Early Career Researcher Parents- where, we share the challenges of parenting while trying to navigate academia and just recently one of the members posted a photo of some adorable but labour intensive looking Easter themed cupcakes proclaiming herself to be a procrastibaker- I can SO relate,Continue reading “Hello My Name is Mamalegato and I am a Procrastibaker.”
The Early Bird Gets The Worm (and gets a bunch of other stuff done too.)
I am an early riser. I always have been, my Mother was too, she grew up on a farm and I like to think it is in the genes. Even as a undergrad student, working until 3 am in a bar, I still woke up at 9 am (early for a barmaid andContinue reading “The Early Bird Gets The Worm (and gets a bunch of other stuff done too.)”
How (not) to write a PhD and keep/lose your sanity…
When I am feeling my most discouraged and whipped by this PhD I tend to start listing mentally, everything that has happened in my life over the past 2.5 years that have made it impossible for me to “properly” get this thing done. Pathetic, I know- but somehow I think it is kind of aContinue reading “How (not) to write a PhD and keep/lose your sanity…”
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