You probably haven’t noticed that Pathway to PhD has been on an unscheduled sabbatical for a number of months now but that’s okay, I won’t take it personally! I recall at the outset of my PhD programme being told that ‘life events’ may get in the way of our studies. Little did I expect theContinue reading “PACT week 1: Typology of Professional Development Activities”
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My name is Sandra and I am a teacher…
In last month’s post I referred to my planned research project for Module One of my structured PhD programme, the first draft of which is due for peer review in a week’s time. Being a logical sort of person, I drafted my introduction and literature review, in the knowledge that both will need to be edited duringContinue reading “My name is Sandra and I am a teacher…”
The first of many countdowns
I’ve stopped counting how many weeks I’m into Module One of my structured PhD programme, preferring to focus on how many weeks until my first research paper draft is due for peer review (5 weeks) and final submission (another 4 weeks after that). It’s not long really if the first half of the module isContinue reading “The first of many countdowns”
Settling into PhD life
Is this really week 7 of the first module of my structured Phd programme? I hadn’t been counting, instead focusing on the readings and online discussions over six whole weeks. I even managed a first draft of the research proposal for the assignment due at the end of the module (although not a very goodContinue reading “Settling into PhD life”
And so it begins…
PathwaytoPhD is back from sabbatical – where did those four months go? In truth, it was a sabbatical from this blog and during this time I still wrote a little (for my local Tidy Towns group), I read a little more (advance reading for my PhD ahead) and did a bit of organisation thanks toContinue reading “And so it begins…”
It’s been a funny old week
It’s Thursday and normally my fortnightly blog post is published at this stage but as the post title says, it’s been a funny old week. Not funny in the ha-ha sense and this post aims to explain my thinking about where I’m at right now and where I’m going (in the direction of a PhDContinue reading “It’s been a funny old week”
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