Archive of posts filed under the Professional Life category.

Round-table discussion: Effective social networking in the public sector

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I was invited to facilitate a round-table discussion on effective social networking in the public sector for CPA Australia at their International Public Sector Convention on 21st February 2013. These notes derived from that session.  I have formatted this discussion as an article, and it is available h here for download:  20130221 Roundtable Notes.pdf.  Please feel …

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Work Life Balance: What if I told you doing insane hours is not the same as doing your PhD?

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And so today I am here to talk about work-life balance in your PhD. Work-life balance is one of the ‘seven deadly sins’ of academe. The PhD is the worst kind of study for work-life balance. More than any other form of study, the PhD requires hard work without direction and hard work without deadlines. …

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DevonThink Pro for PhD

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Well I have been promising for a while to write a blog post on DevonThink.  On the details on how to use it and manage information. This… is not that blog post.  This is an interim short post on DevonThink and why I replaced Evernote with DevonThink on the Mac. But just a quick note …

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Academic Writing Tips that work for commencing RHD and PhD students

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Yesterday I reviewed a doctoral consortium paper for a fellow phd student here at UQ.  I thought I might as well put some of the comments I made up as a blog post.  I want to be sure I just document up some tips or advice for students writing their first doctoral consortium paper.  For …

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Mac OSX, Scrivener and Word for Academic writing

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Well, about 18 months ago I bought a new Macbook Pro.  I had sworn that Mr Gates’ hegemony had to deliver on Windows 7, and, although it was OK, it was not quite to the standard I wanted.  So I thought that, as I am currently doing my phd full time, it would be a …

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