Archive for the 'General' Category
Questionnaire Design
October 28th, 2008I have been developing a series of questionnaires for my PhD and it has proved to be more time consuming than I thought it would be.
I have to devise a different set of questions for each group to be targeted, students, staff, web managers, industry etc. This has been a complex process! I thought I […]
Research Development Programme
October 2nd, 2008I have finished another block of Research Training which covered the following topics:
‘Introduction to Project Management’
‘Productive Academic Writing’
‘Building your Career Skills’
‘Knowledge Ownership 1&2′
‘Getting Published’
Obviously each speaker had a unique delivery but overall they were very interesting and informative although some were more entertaining than others. Academia doesn’t necessarily have to take itself too seriously to […]
Confirmation of Status Viva
July 1st, 2008Hurrah! My Confirmation of Status Viva came and went on the 26th of July. The format of this milestone was a fifteen minute presentation by yours truly, followed by an oral examination, all of which passed without any major faux pas. In retrospect it was an enjoyable, insightful experience and I got positive feedback from […]
Progress Report
April 25th, 2008Had a meeting today with Chris, one of my supervisors. I was mildly reproached for not being more hands on with my blog. Fair comment! I have been so busy researching the new technologies that I haven’t been embracing them so I resolve to be more pro active in the future as web 2.0 and […]
