Paul Smith's Graduation – Congratulations!
Congratulations to Paul on his graduation, and all the best for what comes next. May others soon follow!
Read moreA Change in Policy; A Change in Direction: An Experience of Changing PhD Research Topic
When coming to Manchester in October 2012, my head was full of ideas about a new developing bilingual education trend in my country i.e. International Standard School (ISS), a type of school which is unique to Indonesia. In other countries, when mentioning ‘International’ concerning education, it usually deals with International students coming from different parts of the world. However, in […]
Read moreBeware the author mills…
Dear All I thought I’d write this fairly urgently as many of you may have been in the same position, or are likely to be in the near future… This morning I arrived to find an email in my work inbox from Lambert Academic Publishing (LAP), an arm of VDM. They are offering to publish my PhD thesis; in fact, […]
Read moreCelebrating with (many members of) the Doctoral Community
Reflections on the First Phase of my PhD Journey
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 moreMy first year PhD odyssey
The 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 moreChapter proposals accepted
Some of us responded to Paul Breen’s call (LTE blog, “Miscellaneous News”, March 2013) for chapter proposals for a book edited by him, entitled Cases on Teacher Identity, Diversity, and Cognition in Higher Education. It is to be published by IGI Global some time towards the end of 2014. Several of our proposals have been accepted. They include Magdalena de Stefani’s, […]
Read moreMy very first UK conference experience
Seminar: Intercultural Communication in Higher Education – Principles and Practices, Newcastle University, May 16-17, 2013 I attended a seminar organized by the British Association for Applied Linguistics, Special Interest Group in Intercultural Communication. It was my very first UK conference of my PhD student life outside the University of Manchester. Unfortunately, I did not give a presentation there because I’m […]
Read morePoster presentation at SEED 2013
I had an opportunity to present a poster for the first time in my life at the SEED 2013 Conference. I presented my plan for my pilot study which will take place in June – July in Thailand. Participating in our research community and in wider communities is what I plan to achieve during my PhD studies. Although this was […]
Read moreFaculty Forum at HBKU
I’m happy to share the news that my proposal for a presentation at the Qatar Faculty Forum has been accepted. It will take place next semester, in the fall of 2013 (date tbd), at the Carnegie-Mellon University in Qatar. The QFF is a body composed of faculty members of Education City branch universities (now officially referred to as partner universities […]
Read more“Collusion” vs “collaboration” and “so what?”: Reflections on course assignments completion
I’m now waving goodbye to the second semester of my first year PhD studies. Similarly to the first one, I have learned a great deal from doing the assignments. My friends and I were very alert to the assignments’ instructions and the deadline at the very beginning of the semester. Especially for the Quantitative Data Analysis one, we set up […]
Read moreSEED Conference Experience
Presenting in SEED conference was my very first ever experience presenting in a conference during my PhD journey. I presented my plan for my PhD research which was still rough and unpolished. It was like my first idea of what I wanted to do in main research. In my presentation, nobody asked me or gave me any suggestions about my […]
Read moreGTRA / Presidential Doctoral Award (PDS)
I am delighted to report recent success by Susan Dawson and Volha ‘Olga’ Arkhipenka in securing these studentship awards. Their profiles will be appearing soon I hope. Please welcome them. they will be joining us in September. R
Read moreA Journey through the ‘Real World’: A Reflection on Term 2 Research Training and Assignment Writing
Pheww…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 moreReady for Open Access?
The latest developments in the publishing world especially regarding Open Access have left many researchers confused. This link will (hopefully) offer some clarification in this respect.
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