Learning, Media and Technology Doctoral Conference
Good News. I’ve had my abstract accepted for the Learning, Media and Technology Doctoral Conference at the London Knowledge Lab on the 4th of July. I’ll be submitting a paper (4000-6000 words) for the...
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Conceptualising Doctoral Practices
My thesis is examining how PhD students’ academic practices are facilitated by the adoption and use of social media. In attempting to develop a conceptual model of doctoral practices, it has been...
View ArticlePeer Networks
A number of PhD students participating in my research have discussed how they became aware that there is a finite number of peers operating within their academic field or specialism, and even less (if...
View ArticleThesis Whispering
The Thesis Whisperer is a terrific website ‘dedicated to the topic of doing a thesis’ that seems to be well-liked and respected amongst the online postgraduate community. I was kindly invited by the...
View ArticleThe Imagined Audience
I briefly mentioned the notion of an ‘imagined audience’ in my recent post on PhD blogging for The Thesis Whisperer. In his thesis, David Brake (2009) uses a symbolic interactionist approach to examine...
View ArticleThree years of excuses and it’s still crap
The title refers to a banner displayed by Manchester United supporters in the Winter of 1989-90, in protest that, after three years in the job, manager Alex Ferguson had failed to bring the success the...
View ArticleWriting: Process and Media
For me, writing papers and thesis chapters has become routinized in the interchange between screen and print. The digital environment is great for building and developing structures – I’ve found...
View ArticleLosing Momentum Conference
I’ve just got back from the Losing Momentum doctoral students conference at the School of Education, University of Oxford. There was a good mix of student presentations alongside excellent keynotes...
View ArticleDigital Identit(y/ies) – Presentation and Notes
Last Friday, I presented at the Challenging the Binaries conference hosted by the Centre for the Study of Literacies at the School of Education, University of Sheffield. It was friendly and engaging,...
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The Blues and the Abstract Truth – Music to Survive a PhD
Don’t play everything (or every time); let some things go by. Some music just imagined. What you don’t play can be more important than what you do. Thelonious Monk From: Steve Lacy | T Monk’s Advice...
View ArticleIf it quacks like a blog… Problematising social media genres
What are the most useful criteria for categorising social media? What characteristics help define or distinguish specific tools or platforms? What, for example, is most typical or unique about a blog?...
View ArticleNew researchers, interdisciplinarity and social media
As a result of recent policies in UK doctoral education, an increasing number of PhD students are choosing interdisciplinary routes, and earlier this week, Sarah Byrne presented a much-needed focus on...
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