Japan

All four people I met up with this week were my colleagues from the university who are visiting Tokyo for their holidays. We strolled from town to town, had some food and drinks, and watched a Kabuki performance. My schedule in March is nearly full with observation work. I am a bit worried about whether read more

I flew to Kagoshima to spend a week with my mum. It was really nice to see her and have some time to relax together. We did some shopping, visited the popular shrine, Kirishima Jingu, found a nice coffee shop, Sabo Gen, in the city centre, and had a lovely dinner at her favourite restaurant. Time sped by read more

The scholar I met in Week 58 sent me a box of old textbooks he used at medical school 20 years ago. When we met two weeks ago, he mentioned he had many old books he no longer used and offered to lend them to me. When opening the box, I was very excited. There read more

This week, I conducted the second day of my data collection, which included five observations and four audio recordings. I have enjoyed visiting patients with healthcare professionals and learning how professionals in different fields work together in care settings. It took me some time to start data collection. I didn’t want to begin observations or read more

What an intensive and hectic seven days last week! The biggest achievements of the week were that I got my ethics clearance from an organisation (no more ethics applications required!) and that I got the inspiration for my methodology from a meeting with the scholar I mentioned last week, a ‘very cold person’. His tone read more

The first half of this week was a little bit depressing. One of the research participants introduced a medical scholar to me. The scholar is a professor belonging to an authoritative institution. I wrote an email about myself, my research, and the kind of advice I would like from the scholar, and I sent it read more