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Thesis Boot Camp at UWE #tbc
Over the weekend, the Graduate School at UWE finally managed to run a Thesis Boot Camp (TBC). I say finally as it has been something that I’ve felt we needed to do for over a year since reading the...
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Social Media and the Science Communication Unit #digitalresearcher
A few weeks back I gave a lunchtime presentation in a forum for those using/running social media channels at UWE. I was presenting the point of view of someone who supports the development of...
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Practical housekeeping for your data
Data by Janet McKnight [CC BY 2.0] Context We are moving inexorably toward an open research environment where the outputs of research, the data that it was produced from and, to a degree, the design of...
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Researchers’ Forum – Me, my career and the REF
Get on at UWE! A photo by Nick Rice (CC BY-ND 2.0) At a recent Researchers’ Forum at UWE Bristol we explored the topic of researcher career development within the context of the Research Excellence...
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Overcoming blogging anxiety
Blog by Christian Schnettelker [CC BY 2.0]This post was inspired by a comment on the UWE DocSoc Facebook group that spoke of anxiety when it comes to writing blogs or online diaries. It’s a topic I am...
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New beginnings
I haven’t written much on the blog lately not, I hasten to add, because I’ve had nothing to say but more that I’ve not really had time to stop and put my thoughts down in this medium. At the turn of...
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Open Access, or: The internet is not going away #openaccess
Open by JMarty [CC BY-SA 2.0]I’ve been thinking about the Open Research agenda again recently; it would be fair to describe me as an advocate and I’ve written about this topic before on this blog here...
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Future challenges of doctoral training #vitae17
The future A few months ago I agreed to give a presentation at the Vitae Researcher Development International Conference in September. It is scheduled for the half plenary session on the first...
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When you think all hope is gone during your PhD
It was January 22 and a little before 4.30am when the phone call came. It was my step mother ringing to tell me that my dad had died suddenly of a heart attack. At that moment my whole world collapsed....
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Developing the future postgraduate researcher
image credit: future neon by Flickr user Russell Davies [CC BY-NC 2.0]I’ve been asked to come along to a Research Supervisors’ Symposium being held at the University of Gloucestershire to talk about...
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Rethinking training and development in an online context #Vitaecon2020
Photo by Julia M Cameron on Pexels.com At the Vitae International Researcher Development Conference in 2017, I gave a presentation about the Future Challenges of Doctoral Training. Fast forward three...
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