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Why? and the pyramid of purpose
At the end of November my good friend and colleague Janet Wilkinson from Three Times Three helped me to deliver a session for the UWE Researchers’ Forum. The theme for the forum was “toward a research...
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The Effective Researcher – The middle years
The middle years of a PhD? This week we ran a workshop entitled “The effective researcher- the middle years”. This is a workshop aimed at those who are midway through their doctoral degrees and are...
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The Effective Part Time Researcher – The ultimate balancing act?
This week myself and Janet Wilkinson are running a workshop specifically for part time students. There are two significant new elements to how we’re doing this; firstly the workshop will be be split...
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2012 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 600 people reached the top of Mt. Everest in 2012. This blog got about 2,000 views in 2012. If...
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The Socially Innovative Researcher
Recently I directed a course entitled “The Socially Innovative Researcher” in the Chancellors Conference Centre in Manchester. I was joined by a team of experienced colleagues from the University of...
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UWE Graduate School – One year on
From: Neil Willey, Director of the UWE Graduate School It’s just over a year ago now that UWE set up its university-wide Graduate School and then celebrated the launch, so I thought it might be a good...
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Moving blogs – from posterous to wordpress.com
About two years ago I started my blogging journey, I wanted a way to reflect on the workshops I deliver to researchers – to jot down the context, share the resources used. I’m a reasonably confident...
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Welcome to EdD – part 2
This week UWE are running a short welcome session for doctoral candidates who are studying on one of the professional doctorate routes – the EdD. This programme has two major parts to it, the first...
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Digital Researcher #druwe March 2013
This week I ran a workshop at UWE on the use of social media in the context of research. This follows on from a similar workshop that I ran in February 2012 for researchers and a workshop at the Vitae...
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Business plans: 200 pages or the back of an envelope?
The following is a guest post from Janet Wilkinson (Three Times Three) on the topic of putting together a business plan for the uninitiated. Inevitably there is no single answer to the question ‘what...
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Preparing a pecha kucha
20 slides advancing every 20 seconds I spend a lot of time delivering workshops to researchers on a diverse set of topics – most of the time I will be waxing lyrical about the need to communicate...
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Seven Cracking Creativity Tips
This is a guest post by Dr. Nathan Ryder (@drryder), creator of the Viva Survivors website and author of the book Fail Your Viva – Twelve Steps To Failing Your PhD (And Fifty-Eight Tips For Passing)....
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The progression exam
Under the spotlight This week I am running a workshop on for some research students who are studying for a professional doctorate entitled “The Progression exam”. This is a formal milestone in the...
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Under lock & Key: Data management best practice
Under lock and key: keeping your data safe Last week UWE put on a workshop on the topic of data management, something that is becoming much more important in contemporary research environments. Indeed...
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How to win funds & influence people
Winning funds & influencing people Today I delivered a workshop at UWE entitled “How to win funds & influence people“. This is an event aimed squarely at researchers who are wanting to know a...
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Perfect Posters! A guide for researchers
The perfect poster guaranteed! This week I ran a workshop at UWE on the topic of putting together posters for the purpose of presenting research at conferences. I deliberately called this “Perfect...
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Social innovation and researchers at Southampton Solent #SSURE13
Key words and phrase around social innovation On Tuesday of this week I attended the Research and Enterprise Conference held at Southampton Solent University (#SSURE13). I had been invited to speak on...
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Residential Gradschool at Buckland Hall 2013
Buckland Hall, July 2013 At the beginning of July, Plymouth University in collaboration with UWE, Bristol put on a four day residential course for doctoral researchers at the fabulous Buckland Hall in...
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Research in Contemporary Context #vitae13
Research in definition Using ‘Research-Based Learning’ to Enhance Doctoral Skills Development At the recent Vitae Researcher Development International Conference myself and Neil Willey presented a...
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The Beginner’s Guide to the Doctorate
So this is the way forward! This week I ran a workshop for newly registered research degree students entitled “The Beginner’s Guide to the Doctorate”. What I set out to do was to lay bare the road...
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