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 108: Neck Pain
This week hasn’t been very productive. Last weekend, I attended a two-day session on Mental Health First Aider training, which was useful and meaningful. I learnt about treatment and support for mental health issues. Maybe because I didn’t have a chance to properly recuperate from lack of sleep and tiredness last week, I’ve been suffering read more
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Week 107: My experience of supervision
I am privileged to have three supervisors who have all been fantastic academic mentors. Throughout my PhD programme, we have had face-to-face meetings once a month, and they have given me prompt feedback and a great deal of advice on my chapter drafts by email every month. I have found my supervisory team very hands-on. read more
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Week 106: Coding transcripts
This week, I sent my supervisors a working draft of my analysis, which was the first version of coded transcripts. This includes the original text, word-by-word translation, idiomatic translation, CA symbols and codes of my analytical dimensions. This text data is saved in Word documents for the moment, but I’ve been thinking about how to read more
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Week 105: New Year’s Resolutions
It’s a very nice feeling to open a fresh, new diary for 2019, and make a list of achievable tasks for the day while having a morning coffee. On New Year’s Day, I mapped out what my next 12 months will look like. I put the semester dates, thesis milestones, deadlines, and conference details into read more
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Happy New Year! Sky pictures from my flights
Happy New Year 2019! I would like to share some beautiful photos from my flights. The winter sky above the clouds was clear and beautiful, and it gave me a lot of positive energy and inspiration for a new year. My flight was KL0862, departing Tokyo at 11:30 am. It’s an 11-hour journey from Tokyo, read more
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Week 104: Wrap up of the second year of my PhD
It’s the final week of the second year of my PhD programme, and here’s my reflection on the year. My second year kicked off with fieldwork and data collection in Tokyo. After spending four months collecting audio data, the next six months were devoted to sorting it out, making transcripts, conducting pilot analysis, and writing read more
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Weeks 102 and 103: Two weeks’ break in Tokyo
I’ve been feeling a bit guilty about not working on my research for the past two weeks. But one thing I can report is that my paper abstract has been accepted for an international conference taking place in Hong Kong next year – I am going, for sure! It’s also odd, after I arrive in read more
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Week 101: Analysis and muffin-making
I am writing this post at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol and am about to take my flight to Tokyo. I’ll have two weeks’ holiday in Japan and make trips to different cities with my family. The past week has been hectic (end of the semester, data analysis, an interview in London, and packing), but hopefully, I read more
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