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Category Archives: Reflections
Time Wasters
Why do some funders demand the investment of so much effort and provide such a poor return for most? Continue reading
Posted in Bidding for funding, by Rebecca, Reflections
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No feedback from the British Academy
British Academy devotes approximately £630,000 of university funding to making 855 early-career researchers feel depressed. Continue reading
Posted in Bidding for funding, by Rebecca, Reflections, Time Mangement
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Trying out Prezi
I have just spent all day putting together a presentation using Prezi. That’s not all the time it took – because I’ve already spent another day or two planning the presentation, making notes, gathering images and sketching out a plan. … Continue reading
Posted in by Rebecca, Reflections, Research Tools, Time Mangement
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How far can you get from Creative Commons?
We just received the copyright form for the book on education in virtual worlds that we are editing with Kieron Sheehy. They want it back today. I’m just wondering whether this wholesale transfer of rights and copyright is the norm. … Continue reading
Posted in Publications, Reflections
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Inching towards perfection
Long-time classics, international bestsellers, your favourite novel of all time. Hand on heart, is there any one of them that has absolutely no room for improvement? Take Genesis – a grand opening but also a sprinkling of repetition and some … Continue reading
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Top 40 Potential Viva Questions
I submitted my thesis way back in March but, somewhere between CREET and the Research School, the documentation was lost or abandoned for a couple of months. Add to that a spell in hospital when they finally got round to … Continue reading
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How long does it take to write a Thesis?
Rebecca and I have both submitted our PhD theses. Rebecca dropped hers at the Research School about a week before I submitted mine. Nevertheless its rather nice to have got to this stage pretty much together. Writing up is an … Continue reading
Posted in by Gill, Reflections, Rescuetime, Time Mangement
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Joyful, visionary research
My research group spent a successful day this week brainstorming and developing projects together. We began by considering what we enjoy about research, and found that social and affective factors are hugely important to us. We wanted to carry out … Continue reading
Posted in Collaboration, Reflections, Social Networking, Workshops
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The best school in the world?
My local junior school is currently rethinking its vision. This isn’t an empty exercise – the school vision underpins everything that happens at the school, and is referred to on a daily basis. We’re asking everyone in the school community … Continue reading
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A perspective
Glancing through this blog, I realised that it had the tagline “perspectives on an academic environment” and I thought that perhaps I had neglected this aspect somewhat so heres some perspectives and maybe a little perspective too 🙂 Summer is … Continue reading
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