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April 28, 2025April 28, 2025Students, Supervisors, Uncategorized

GenAI and doctoral research

Watch this space… Over the last few weeks and months I’ve been working with colleagues across my institute on drafting specific guidance […]

March 29, 2025March 29, 2025Uncategorized

A manifesto for the simple scribe

A colleague recently sent me an article – a manifesto for the simple scribe – my 25 commandments for journalists. On a […]

March 3, 2025March 3, 2025Students

Imposter syndrome

Students ask:  How can I deal with imposter syndrome?  There’s so much I don’t know; I feel like a fraud. Imposter syndrome – that […]

February 25, 2025February 25, 2025Students

Research hygiene

Students ask: What does it mean to keep good records? How can I maintain traceability between my writing and my notes? Research […]

January 21, 2025January 21, 2025Supervisors

Contradictory reviews

I recently received the most contradictory reviews I have ever seen. My co-authors and I had submitted a significant journal article to […]

November 18, 2024November 17, 2024Students

Academic interviews

My School has been going through a period of expansion, appointing candidates to a range of lectureships and senior lectureships. These interviews […]

November 13, 2024February 25, 2025Students, Supervisors

Thematic analysis – a practical guide

I’ve spent much of the week reading Braun and Clarke’s book – Thematic Analysis: A Practical Guide. It was something of a […]

March 28, 2022March 28, 2022Supervisors

The audit trail

Record keeping is fundamental to research – and to research supervision.  Supervisors often resist student-record-keeping as mindless bureaucracy, but a clear audit trail […]

March 23, 2022September 11, 2023Students

Destructive behaviours (to avoid) 

Students ask:  What should I do when I haven’t made any progress? I don’t want to waste my supervisor’s time… There are few […]

November 15, 2021December 6, 2021Students

Navigating terminological confusion – the case of case studies

Students ask:  What is a case study?  One of the ironies of academia that, in a realm that strives for precision and rigour, […]

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