I was recently invited to give a talk to a group of research students at my university currently applying for funding from the Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme. Specifically, my topic was to be on Gantt charts since the programme application guidelines indicated that while not compulsory, applicants could certainly include one. From myContinue reading “Organising the chaos… Gantt charts”
Category Archives: 4. Professional Knowledge and Skills
#OER24 – a reflection
In this post I reflect on my first time attendance at OER24, the annual Open Education, Research, Practice and Policy conference hosted this week by Munster Technological University, Cork, Ireland. I also had the opportunity to present my current work, a video recording of a practice run is available through this link: https://learningdigitaltogether.com/our-pilot/
A researcher’s ethical PhD journey
I received notification this week that my PhD was awarded on 24 August, so now seems a good time to reflect on the ethical choices of my journey up to this point and consider plans for the future, from an ethical and personal values perspective.
A community-of-peer learners
In recent months I have been spending some time preparing for my upcoming viva exam and have been fortunate enough to have had not one, but two practice runs with peers during April and May. Their feedback, individually and collectively, was incredibly valuable and allowed for considerable improvements to be made between the runs andContinue reading “A community-of-peer learners”
Copyediting and/or proofreading?
It seems like I’m putting my hands up a lot these days, but I have only recently realised that copyediting and proofreading are two quite different things. What? You thought they were the same thing too? Then read on…
Just in case…
It’s almost six months since I’ve a written a post, but I’ve been busy drafting my literature review, revising earlier chapters, drafting my discussion and now thinking about my research conclusions. I also fractured my wrist in June that has slowed me down but thankfully I was able to use the Dictate features in ScrivenerContinue reading “Just in case…”
