Today, 21 June, 2021, my students embark on Stage 3 of their MSc research projects, collecting data, analysing data and all the rest that goes with it. I will reiterate my previous advice to them on the importance of a data requirements table (Saunders et al., 2016, p. 714). This mapping exercise helps ensure thatContinue reading “Draft, pilot, reflect, revise…”
Tag Archives: Lifelong Learning
“Get yourself a granddaughter!”
January, 2021. For readers outside of Ireland this is the month of the third lockdown to help prevent the spread of Covid-19. Over the course of a few days an email exchange with a neighbour went like this: Her: “Can I phone you at some point today or tomorrow for help with the constant emailContinue reading ““Get yourself a granddaughter!””
Confessions of a rookie researcher
Anyone who knows my professional work, either in project management or in teaching and learning, appreciates that I’m a stickler for detail, i’s dotted, t’s crossed, and everything in between. I consider myself to be organisation personified. For this journal article I’m working on, based on a PhD module paper, I read the instructions forContinue reading “Confessions of a rookie researcher”
What’s in a name?
Well, quite a lot as it happens…
Goodbye blog, hello learning portfolio 👋
Participants were welcomed to the second iteration of the online PACT course with a clear statement of its aims: The aims of the PACT badge are to familiarise you with the PD framework, to encourage you to use the PD framework to develop effective PD strategies, and to develop your PD learning community. We encourageContinue reading “Goodbye blog, hello learning portfolio 👋”
Lessons from the year that was 2019
I wrote a post with a similar title at the end of 2017. It seems timely to reflect on these 5 lessons and consider how I might apply them to the year, and indeed the decade, ahead. Not a list of new year resolutions most certainly, I prefer to think of them as a setContinue reading “Lessons from the year that was 2019”
Sandra Flynn 