Finally, I have finished all the 6 compulsory MSc modules. Phew! 😀 Now I can continue my journey through the next episode of my life as a doctorate student in this beloved university. Revealing the last two grades of my assignments was a bit surprising. I scored better in Quantitative assignment. Wow, I thought I was a more qualitative than […]
Read moreThe first year of my PhD study has ended satisfactorily. I’m now writing this from home in Thailand! In this first year at the School of Education, The University of Manchester, I have learned and developed from three main sources; MSc modules, conferences and supervision meetings. First of all, I took six MSc modules as a requirement for my PhD […]
Read morePheww…it has been two days after submission deadline..and I still could not believe that I have submitted the version that I am quite happy with just in time…And the electronic submission made me still worried sometimes whether my submissions were through or not :D. Though I have printed the digital receipts, there was always feeling of worries and made me […]
Read moreHello there, My name is Dylan Williams and I’m a PhD Eduction in context student (the context being South Korea). I’m at this stage half way through my first year of a 6 year offer and I’m writing this to reflect on my first 6 months in the hope that it might be an insight to other students who are […]
Read moreAfter one month full of worry, finally we received the results and formative feedback on three of our assignments: Critical Reading and Writing, Introduction to Quantitative Methods, and Planning of Research. The first thing we checked when these were launched into BB9 was certainly the grade 🙂 , but I realise that there is another highly essential part that can […]
Read moreAfter completing my panel in October I have been working through completing the ethics forms for my PhD study. Originally it was seen to have a low risk level. However, from my panel feedback and discussions with colleagues in the department it appears that from the wording on the ethics form my study is actually medium.The primary reason for this? […]
Read moreThis quote caught my eye: “Time and memory are a fussy firm on interior decorators, always shifting the furniture about and redesigning and even reassigning rooms” (p.28) Banville, John (2012). Ancient Light. London: Viking/Penguin. A timely reminder, if ever we needed it, of the great importance of maintaining a Research(er) Journal THROUGHOUT the process and not rely on memory and […]
Read moreUps! It has been three days after the assignments submission….Time really flies…but I still can feel and taste the hustle bustle of the process….:D On her reflection, Khwan mentioned that she has learned more during the “doing-her-own-job” session. It was similar to me. I learned a lot during the sessions of my research training but it was when I had […]
Read moreAfter completing the first semester’s research training by submitting four assignments yesterday, I couldn’t believe how much I wrote over the past month; four assignments, each of them around 3000-4000 words! Of course, we attended lectures and sessions during the semester, but I think I have learned even more when it came to the ‘doing-your-own job’. It was a great […]
Read moreJanuary 2013, half way through the research agenda Taking stock of my research activities conducted in the autumn 2012 (NOT of the collected/generated data), I’m thinking of the applicability of the “amendments section” in the RREA form (Amendments to proposed research design for LOW risk research, which records “any applications made during the life time of the Project regarding minor […]
Read moreDear all, It has been one month and two days of me being in Manchester but I feel that I have been here much longer. Loads of things happening and a lot more things to do. I would like to share a bit of my feeling and experience in my research trainings. Being in the research training modules gives me […]
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