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{Article Submission} Surviving Impostor Syndrome: Navigating through the Mental Roller-coaster of a Doctoral Sojourn

20/12/2020 Siti Fitriyah One comment

This is the abstract of my reflective article about impostor syndrome which I mentioned in the LANTERN web talk few days ago 🙂 It is now under review. Fingers crossed :-)) Surviving Impostor Syndrome: Navigating through the Mental Roller-coaster of a Doctoral Sojourn Abstract Studying overseas may offer myriad riches of extraordinary experiences, especially due to the opportunities to immerse […]

Two more book contributions in ‘Developing as an EFL Researcher: Stories from the Field’

05/04/2017 Susan Dawson Leave a comment

Volha and I both have contributions in the book ‘Developing as an EFL Researcher: Stories from the Field’ edited by Siân Etherington and Mark Daubney. This book is based on poster presentations from the IATEFL Research SIG pre-conference event held in Manchester in 2015. Both those posters are on the walls in the B3 corridor in Ellen Wilkinson. Volha’s contribution is […]

Health and well-being for researchers: Free online Q&A tomorrow (14th March)

13/03/2017 Susan Dawson Leave a comment

I’ve just found out about this and am posting it here in case anyone is interested. It’s being run by Vitae and the topic is: Coping with stress and anxiety: health and well-being for researchers. It will take place on the 14 March between 2-3pm (UK Time). This is an opportunity for your researchers to learn more about looking after […]

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Intercultural Summer School in Finland

25/04/2016 Susan Dawson Leave a comment

Introducing and Exploring Intercultural Relations in Everyday Life August 9-19, 2016 in Turku, Finland We keep hearing that we are living in an intercultural world and that we need to prepare for it. What does this really mean? How do we meet ‘other’ people? What are intercultural relations made of? This introductory course will tell you everything about the knotty idea […]

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Creative Writing for Academics workshop

22/02/2016 Susan Dawson 6 comments

Volha and I have just returned from a workshop led by Kip Jones of Bournemouth University entitled ‘Creative writing for academics’. It was a two day workshop, and to be honest, I was not really sure what to expect. We had been asked to take an article we had written that included interview data, and to note down any dreams we had. […]

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Research Methods in IC (new book)

20/02/2016 Richard Fay One comment

http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1118837436.html In this brand new volume (Link), there are chapters by the usual suspects including: Holmes, P., Fay, R., Andrews, J. and Attia, M. (2016). How to research multilingually: possibilities and complexities. In Z. Hua (ed.), Research methods in intercultural communication (pp.88-102). London: Wiley.

Reflections on Fieldwork Experiences

12/02/2016 Rafidah Sahar 4 comments

Conducting fieldwork is in itself a rite of passage for me. It symbolises another milestone in my PhD journey. Through these reflections, I wish to highlight the procedures and the learning process that took place while preparing for my fieldwork in the UK and during my fieldwork in Malaysia, my home country. Before I started my fieldwork, like other PhD […]

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Some preliminary thoughts on ‘Bringing it Back Home 2016’

22/01/2016 Susan Dawson Leave a comment

These are some initial thoughts about this year’s BiBH event, and I would love to hear your comments. With the LANTERN Lunchtime Talks running this year, there seems less need to create a space for us all to share academic findings/presentations (if you would like to do a LLT, please let me know!). One of the things that I think […]

Postgraduate workshop – Researching Multilingually: Possibilities and Complexities, University of London, February 2016

17/12/2015 Susan Dawson Leave a comment

This is a one-day workshop looking at the sorts of questions researchers who are working in more than one language might ask: Am I allowed to include scholarly literature in Turkish? What if I conduct my interviews in Mandarin but have to write all my thesis in English? If I include data in Hindi, how will this affect my word […]

Artful Prose: A writing and visual thinking course for postgraduate researchers (MRes, MPhil, PhD), nurturing academic writing and making

15/12/2015 Susan Dawson Leave a comment

Min has sent me information for a very interesting (free!) course that is being led by Dr Amanda Ravetz and Dr Myna Trustram, Manchester School of Art, MMU. It is a series of four day workshops looking at the writing experience using art, drama and even bookmaking! To me it sounds like a very novel approach to thinking about writing and […]

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Bringing it back home, Mindfulness and sources of information about research methods

18/06/2015 Gary Motteram 2 comments

I realise that this is only one aspect of what we heard yesterday, but FutureLearn are offering a MOOC on Mindfulness from September. There are quite a lot of MOOCs from all the providers on aspects of Developing Researcher Competence. Sarah Twiby, one of our current MAs working on her dissertation, is using this YouTube channel to support her understanding […]

Manchester GRADschool 2015

11/05/2015 Duygu Candarli 2 comments

Please note that I first published this post on my blog on 4th May, 2015. As a PhD student, my day normally starts with a cup of coffee and creating a daily to-do list, and it continues with writing and reading in front of the computer. Last week, at Manchester GRADschool, I stepped out of my PhD routine and had […]

Reflections on a writing workshop

16/03/2015 Susan Dawson Leave a comment

Last week I attended a two day writing workshop in Durham run by the NEDTC. It was a bit of a mixed experience, but I would like to share some reflections on the workshop that might possibly be useful for others too. There were 45 of us from a real cross section of disciplines, with very different projects from around the UK […]

‘Narrative workshops’ for SEED postgraduate students

02/02/2015 Susan Dawson Leave a comment

These workshops are being organised by Fitri and Kelly among others, so if you are interested in finding out more about narrative in research, do go along. Kelly writes: Workshops are run by students for students. The aim being to share and learn how narrative in being used in research generally and SEED as a discipline as well as a […]

Reflections on being federated to a large, interdisciplinary research project

17/01/2015 Susan Dawson One comment

One of the huge advantages of being a GTRA (apart from the fact that you actually get paid for being a student), is that you get an opportunity to experience and learn from a variety of teaching and research situations. For me, the most exciting opportunity by far to this point is being involved with a large, interdisciplinary research project. I […]

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