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. … Read more
Last night I was chair of my Rostrum club’s meeting (Rostrum is a public speaking club). As I am neck-deep in writing my phd and ARC reports, writing was top of mind. I noted that Washington Irving was a famous author – in 19th century America, and I wondered whether anyone could name one of his … Read more
In developing a theory of coffee, it is necessary to consider several inalienable postulates: – Coffee contains caffeine and therefore caffeine makes you hyper. – Being Hyper makes you do stuff. – Doing stuff is a Good Thing. From the perspective of this theoretical model, therefore, it can be seen that any substance that contains … Read more
I have been working away on my thesis, particularly my ARC research data. Doing some interesting things that will make it to this blog eventually – I have been using Leximancer to analyse the transcript data of 59 interviews. That is finally working well (the trick is to have the right version of the software, … Read more
At the urging of Twitter user beautyiswhatudo, I have posted up here my academic template for writing journals and publications according to a somewhat generally accepted approach. The reader can download the Scrivener 2.0.4 template here. I do have some notes for someone intending to use this template; these notes are included in the Academic template. … Read more