Gearing up to RPA
What is an RPA you ask? It stands for Research Proposal Assessment. What is it supposed to do? It is a method to keep research students...
Annotating
Reading is only half the battle apparently. Apparently, I'm supposed to keep notes of the stuff that I have opinions on. Though I have...
Read Read Read
I was told that after about 6 months of reading, I'll get into the groove (vocab; names; theorists, authors, scholars, academics;...
Choosing the Supervisor
This post might seem out of order/sequence from the previous one, but, it wasn't until I had started the programme that my supervisory...
Induction
It's awkward enough as it is to go to a new school and not know anyone but to add salt to the wound and throw all the phd students in the...
My Journey Towards a PhD
I had never thought I would be trying to get a doctorate degree. It wasn't something that interested me as I am not an academic. But I do...