Writing Retreats; or how a trip to the mountains helped me restart my PhD.
Inspired by this call to action from Jessica on collecting the stories of mental health and PhD students, and the fact I am looking forward to working on ‘it’ through the enforced Christmas annual...
View ArticleWhat I need to write about during January 2014
First post of 2014, a particularly important year for me as I’m working full time on a project with “Glasgow 2014″ in the job description. Eek. Secondly, 4 years after I initially collected my data...
View ArticlePhD Update: Enter the warpzone…
Reading through my research diary and blog posts at the time, I realise it’s been exactly five years since I was in Vancouver for the 2010 Winter Olympic Games. In all honesty, back then I would have...
View ArticleUsing NaNoWriMo for generative PhD writing
This is the academic year that I complete my PhD. I am very fortunate to attend writing retreats almost monthly now. I’m at one in Dumfries just now writing this in my final session – I was at Gartmore...
View Article#NaNoWriMo (& other things) for generative (& progressive) PhD writing – an...
Just under a month ago I wrote a blog post about how I aspired to be a #NanoRebel and aim to write over 50k additional words to my PhD as part of the annual writing flurry of #NaNoWriMo. With only 1.5...
View ArticleSome thoughts from Picturing the Social Conference – June 2016 #VSMLconf
I’m on my way to Sheffield to deliver a workshop on Social Media for Early Career Researchers at the first student-lead Sheffield University Doctoral Student Conference tomorrow. I was lucky enough to...
View ArticlePhD to completion – The final 6 months
TL;DR: I quit my associate lecturer job so I can finish my PhD full time before December. I am still available for freelance and project based work. This is a post about my boundaries. This has been...
View Article10 things I know now about completing a PhD [12 weeks to go]
I’ve just got home from a long (but fab) day on Paisley campus of UWS. Something I’ve not done since I stopped working there in July to finish the PhD. I feel compelled to blog – all the best blogs...
View ArticleFrom PhD student to PhDone: Writing up that thesis
25 days ago, I submitted my PhD thesis. I am relieved that it is now, finally, done. However, you have to forgive me for not writing elsewhere for a while. I’ve not been able to stomach writing...
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