Research training

How do you make sure your research is ethical? Even leaving personal details on a desk can compromise the ethics of your project

02/06/2014 Susan Dawson One comment

A very interesting post on ethics in research by Hannah Farrimond in the Guardian

Ethics (approval)

The Good Viva Video

27/01/2013 Richard Fay Leave a comment

Here it is. (as used by Paul Smith in preparation for his Viva last week)

Examination (Thesis Viva /Panel/Annual Review )

When Ethics become more than a paper pushing exercise….

23/01/2013 Miriam Firth 2 comments

After 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? […]

Time and Memory (and research(er) narratives)

20/01/2013 Richard Fay 3 comments

This 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 […]

Reflections in/on research(er) action

Methods @ Manchester

07/04/2011 Richard Fay One comment

Do you all know about this one? Methods @ manchester Highlighting the depth and breadth of methodological expertise in the social sciences at the University of Manchester. Promoting and facilitating methodological excellence, innovation and inter-disciplinarity. http://www.methods.manchester.ac.uk/

Researcher development etc

Induction week experience

29/09/2010 Magda Rostron 9 comments

Having just participated in the post-graduate Induction Week, I would like to share a few comments on this overwhelmingly positive experience. First of all, as an in-context student, I realised the importance of face to face contacts with my supervisors and the rest of the academic community, or other tutors, administrators and fellow PhD students. I have known my supervisors – […]

Researcher development etc

Eljee's developing researcher narrative: where am I?

13/08/2010 Eljee 5 comments

I enter into the discussion melee rather late in the game. I’m not a great blogger and end up lurking online bouncing between posts and forums. But I would like to (finally) add my thoughts on the discussion on reflective/reflexive area. Since I’m late in the conversation I won’t address the plethora of what’s been discussed in the previous 30 […]

Reflexivity_Narrativity

Discourse analysis anyone?

28/07/2010 Eljee One comment

Greetings to you all! Now that the summer is here most of us, I suspect, are either: a) buried under the pile of reading for a dissertation/abstract/research b) teaching / working crazy hours during the summer to make ends meet for the fall c) procrastinating by doing anything (i.e. online shopping, lurking on Facebook, blogging here) other than researching d) […]

Researcher development etc