Katie's Notes

An academic blog by a linguist specialising in qualitative healthcare research & medical humanities

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  • Week 52: The last week of 2017

    I am about to leave for my fieldwork in Japan. All the preparation – recruiting research participants, preparing ethics statements and consent forms, and confirming research locations – is done. But there is still some preparation to be done for the conducting of focus groups of patients, which will provide supplemental data in the later read more

    Week 52: The last week of 2017
  • Week 43: Feeling restored and ‘Back to the Future’

    I caught a cold and was sick for the entire week. They say that catching a cold is a sign that you need to rest. I am feeling much better after sleeping a lot during the week. On Tuesday, I had a supervision meeting for the first time in a month and gained some useful read more

    Week 43: Feeling restored and ‘Back to the Future’
  • Week 42: Tidying Up

    Week 42 has been very productive, and this might be a great turning point for me. My achievements in Week 42: Completed a draft of my data analysis for the preliminary data, which looks like a rich resource. Added a table of prospective participants, the amount of data, and some descriptions of the context in read more

    Week 42: Tidying Up
  • 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