Reflections of a languages teacher; professional development facilitator; staff tutor; PhD student. Provides useful insights to her thinking via an interview and further links.

Loss, knowledge, skills, technology, play, and referencing. Materials on SEDA and Digital Literacies. Technology in Thought and Action. What makes something a subject, a topic,an idea, an ability, anything difficult? I found it easier to think about difficulty in relation to abilities, things we do.

Animation, communication and social care. What will we do differently next time? April 15, 2015. We set a time limit of 2 minutes for the animation but a lot came in at around 2 minute.

Should I do a PhD? Top 5 reasons a PhD is a Good Idea. Welcome, this wordpress account is one aspect of our social media collaboration for social scientists. February 2013 we launched our Social Research Hub.

How to demonstrate Significant Contribution and Original Study in your PhD Thesis. A PhD is an original piece of research. Thus, you should be able to demonstrate that the research topic you chose has not been studied before, or that you are taking a new perspective on a previously studied topic. In order to demonstrate that your thesis is an original study and that it will provide a significant contribution the academe, your dissertation should be very specific and .

Learning how to learn for a living. Academic in Progress was gone for a quite while, immersed in the new experiences of the second PhD year. I have to make a leap of faith hoping that everything is going to be alright in the end. I am excited about the idea o.

A day in the life of a researcher. Arte y ciencia en el Barroco español. Imagen y discurso en la Edad Moderna.

Communication studies, research, academic writing, PhD completion. This post links to a videos that form a series for people grappling with the many challenges of analysing qualitative data. To me analysis is by far the hardest but also most rewarding part of research.