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Writing a methodology chapter

Published on January 27, 2016

There’s a difference between ‘method’ and ‘methodology’ – and it isn’t easy to grasp. Partly that’s because the methodology chapter of a thesis contains your method and. when you’re grappling with the chapter, it’s difficult to see what you can add to that. You know how you’re going to collect your data. You probably even […]


Augmented reality in education

Published on December 20, 2012

City University, London, 21 0ctober 2012 – #AREE2012 http://blogs.city.ac.uk/care/ar-event/ http://blogs.city.ac.uk/care/2012/11/23/ar-in-education-event/ Videos http://blogs.city.ac.uk/care/?p=238 Augmented reality in education http://blogs.city.ac.uk/care/ cARe, Creating Augmented Reality for Education Farzana Latif, City University Video overview of project http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMWdFadqjg0 Describes a public health walk around east London. When students find a marker, they can access resources about the history of the area, […]


Writing for publication

Published on November 19, 2009

Researchers write all the time, writing is the means through which we work on and work out our ideas. We don’t just write up – we have not found a transparent truth which we then just put into words. Writing is a representation – we make choices and what we choose to write is a […]


Research Excellence Framework (REF)

Published on November 18, 2009

I’ve just been to a presentation by our pro vice chancellor, Brigid Heywood, on the REF that will be used to assess our research over the next few years. Although the REF takes place in 2013, all applications must be in at some point in 2012 – so anything we want included needs to be […]


In print!

Published on February 11, 2008

What I haven’t been doing :-)

Published on October 29, 2007

I usually blog what I have been doing but, in an effort to follow my supervisors’ advice and cut down on my non-PhD activity, I am now blogging what I have NOT been doing. How come, if I have turned down at least five days of activity since my last supervision session that I still […]