PhD diary
A journey as a doctoral student between 2017 and 2020. I keep these posts because, looking back from my early days, I can see how much my perspectives have shifted as a reminder of the learning journey.
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Week 16
Last weekend, Luca and I went to our favourite restaurant, Italia Nostra. There, he gave me a surprise card for Easter. It was my first time celebrating Easter in the UK. I still need to revise a large portion of my research protocol and adjust the initial schedule. I have already spent four months revising read more
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Week 15
I have been working on several tasks, editing my research protocol, writing literature reviews on two main themes, and preparing ethics forms. The biggest achievement in week 15 was receiving approval to record audio for my data, which is a very positive step in the right direction. It means I am realistically able to continue read more
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Blossom
For the past few days, I have been talking to my family. They said how beautiful Japan’s cherry blossoms are this year. I am badly missing my family, partly because we are on an Easter break so most of the students are back home, and partly because of the stagnant situation of my research. The 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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