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Progress Report

December 2nd, 2008

I had a meeting on Friday with both of my supervisors which has helped clarify where I am going with my research.
I thought my questionnaires would be straight forward to develop but it is much more complicated than I first thought. It appears that I need to simplify the language I am using and on […]

Questionnaire Design

October 28th, 2008

I 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, 2008

I 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, 2008

Hurrah! 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 […]

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