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Week 44: Initiated contact with participants
The biggest achievement in Week 44 was initiating contact with prospective participants for my research. On 1st November, when I started sending emails to the participants, I was already nervous and uneasy, because I could only obtain the data with their voluntary help and support. As of 4th November, I have received positive responses from… read more
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Week 43: Feeling restored and ‘Back to the Future’
I caught a cold and was sick for the entire week. They say that catching a cold is a sign that you need to rest. I am feeling much better after sleeping a lot during the week. On Tuesday, I had a supervision meeting for the first time in a month and gained some useful… read more
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Week 42: Tidying Up
Week 42 has been very productive, and this might be a great turning point for me. My achievements in Week 42: Completed a draft of my data analysis for the preliminary data, which looks like a rich resource. Added a table of prospective participants, the amount of data, and some descriptions of the context in… read more
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Week 41: My 38th Birthday
I met some colleagues around my desk for the first time since I moved into the office in April. Talking with them and sharing lunch or coffee reminded me how healthy such interactions are. We tend to work alone, and our way of life can easily become isolating, so these small moments of connection felt… read more
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Week 40: I Passed My Probation
This week, I passed my probation review! I am now feeling a bit more relaxed. It was very nice that my supervisor announced that I had passed, and my colleagues congratulated me. The review meeting was more of a discussion from various perspectives, including the external examiner’s views. I mainly discussed my research with the… read more
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Week 39
I have rehearsed for my probation review, asking Luca to act as an examiner. I listed 20 questions that would probably be asked, and his prompt questions have also been very useful. A psychiatrist once told me that one of the most reliable ways to prepare for answering questions spontaneously in a meeting is to… read more
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Week 38
Continuing my preparation for the review meeting (coming in 10 days), I have read some key books for writing Chapter 2 and kept records of the summaries. I am so stupid. I spent the whole week thinking about and trying out whether to keep a notebook as handwritten materials or digitise all of them. Since… read more
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Week 37
My probation review meeting was postponed to October because the panel is too busy this month, which is painful for me! I have more time to prepare for it, but my nervousness never slackens and has rather grown. My preparation includes: reading my documents thoroughly (research protocol, one chapter, ethics application and field notes) creating… read more
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