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I’ve made slow progress in writing during the week. My objectives are to revise the findings chapter, and add a thematic map of my interview analysis. I never imagined that I would be revising this one chapter throughout the whole year. I’ve understood how important it is to make perfect logical sense between the analytical read more

I’ve recently read What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami and found his story fascinating. His tone of writing is brisk and has transparent honesty. Also, I recently flicked through the book Stepping Stones to Achieving Your Doctorate and am reading about preparing for the viva. My favourite guidebooks on read more

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

I didn’t send the quick sketch version of my draft to my supervisor in the end. Instead, I spent the whole week describing the relevant dimensions of my framework and building its structure.   Transcription Transcribing audio data is really time-consuming. My supervisors often tell me that I shouldn’t waste time transcribing unnecessary parts of read more

This week was difficult in terms of writing − specifically, structuring theories. Over the last few weeks, I’d read articles, mapped the theories and tried to structure them. But I was looking at too many details and losing connections between them in the whole picture. Anxieties became entangled in my mind, and I thought I read more

This week, I spent Monday to Friday working on my report: listening to audio data that I had collected, filling in summary tables and writing detailed descriptions. It is still in the pre-transcribing stage. I am trying to make precise summaries (of participants, nature, and data content) so that I can discuss them with my read more