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Venice
My first time in Venice was full of meetings with Luca’s family. His mum and cousin picked us up at the airport and took us to the city centre. We parked the car near the train station and walked around the northern area, Cannaregio. The town of Venice is very unique, with small shops, narrow read more
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Weeks 13 and 14
Since the spring semester ended, I have had a nice and easy time spent in a relaxed mood. I can finally work full time on my research for the next couple of weeks. I also went for coffee with my colleagues a couple of times, which made me very happy because I now have people read more
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Week 12
The clock has changed to summertime. Week 12 became a very important point in the first year of my research in all respects. I did my first stab at writing a draft and sent it to my supervisors. The 3,000-word summary covers two main aspects: the healthcare system and linguistic studies in healthcare settings. I read more
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Week 11
Week 11 was very busy, attending seminars and writing. Usually, allocating training and my teaching is put in my schedule first, and then I add my research tasks into the space between them. I would like to have a rest between each task, though every minute is so precious when I am rushing to meet read more
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Week 10
On Tuesday night, we went to a musical theatre to see Mamma Mia! Then, we enjoyed a sushi dinner, which was a lovely, relaxing time. I worked on writing summaries of my reading and attended two training seminars. Lots of reading materials are coming up non-stop. My EndNote skills are not yet good enough to read more
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Week 9
My achievements from Week 9 belatedly started writing the summaries of some papers for one chapter – I regret not having done this at the very first stage in January took two training sessions planned to go to Venice for the Easter break Goals for the next week are to attend four training sessions enjoy read more
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Week 8: Project Management
I attended a session titled Project Management, which was very useful. The tutor showed us some methods for applying a scientific model of corporate or programme management to an academic environment. Three factors: cost, time and scope, represented as the Triple Constraint triangle model, were interesting. It gives you a clear idea of how to read more
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