Really, one cannot underestimate how frightening a blank word document and a flashing curser can be.
It takes all I have to sit and face it and not bugger off for more 'thinking time' (aka smoking, making crumpets, making a cup of tea, going to the loo, shuffling paper).
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The ramblings of a madwoman who managed somehow to stumble onto a rather good PhD course - and still be on it sometime later...
My PhD Mood...
About Me
- Numpty
- Well... I am a 36 year old PhD graduate, a Mum of two little boys and I stay at home to look after them. I have two blogs... This one, 'Trials and Tribulations of a Numpty' is a continuation of the first, 'Trials and Tribulations of a PhD student'... It's just a space for me to keep wittering on basically :) The latter blog was written throughout my time as a PhD student, from the initial stress of the monitoring meeting which got me onto the course proper in 2008 when I was 29. I was funded by the ESRC and based in the UK. I finally got my doctorate (awarded with minor corrections) in March 2013. Along the way I got engaged and married, completed months of research in India, became the Mum to a boy who was a boisterous 3 year old at the time of completion, and finished happily pregnant with another wean. This blog provided a wonderful space to chat and vent and ramble over the years and, hopefully, produce some sort of insight into the day-to-day world of confusion, procrastination, failure and success that was completing a PhD. I continue to present this confusion, procrastination, failure and success as it dogs me in my normal life. Come join! x N
My PhD World
General PhD 'Advice'
- How to Make a Bad PhD Chapter Good
- Writing Up - Advice
- Introduction to General PhD Advice
- What to Expect on a PhD...
- Writer's Block
- Things to remember when writing a chapter
- Time off
- PhD Tedium
- Reading and Note-taking
- Uncertainty
- Article on Managing 'Planning'
- Writing
- Fieldwork tips and tricks for beginners...
- Writing up - and down - in fieldwork
- ESRC funding entitlements
Kind friends and followers of my blog
Links to Good PhD Info
Jayney's Most Ranted...
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- writing up (187)
- Being a Mum and Doing a PhD (157)
- Being pregnant and doing a PhD (125)
- Methodology Chapter- Num. Three (93)
- editing (76)
- PhD stress (67)
- Self Discipline (64)
- Writing the second chapter (64)
- writing up; doing the literature review (62)
- finishing the PhD (58)
- final six months (56)
- Getting the final edit done (55)
- Doing a PhD (54)
- getting the first draft done (53)
- preparations for fieldwork (51)
- PhD happiness (50)
- Illness (49)
- reading (49)
- meeting deadlines (46)
- Away completing research (44)
- final year (43)
- trying to be a 'researcher' (41)
- Finishing a chapter (40)
- Supervisor Meeting (40)
- writing a paper for a conference (40)
- Paper # 1 and Chapter four (39)
- 10 minute sections (37)
- analysing fieldwork and writing it up (36)
- final two months (36)
- last few weeks of worry and stress (34)
- lack of concentration (33)
- empirical chapter (32)
- miscarriage during your PhD (30)
- preparations for fieldwork trip num two (28)
- doing the literature review (27)
- PhD Fatigue (26)
- 500 words a day (25)
- Saturday working (25)
- Writing the methodology chapter (25)
- Procrastination (24)
- Bank holiday working (23)
- after the viva (23)
- boring (23)
- doing the corrections (23)
- Writing dissertation in 15 minutes a day (22)
- pressure of submission (22)
- writing the introduction (22)
- coming back after illness (21)
- tiredness (21)
- supervisor (20)
- coming back to it after maternity leave (19)
- final four months (19)
- unpredictable (19)
- working evenings and weekends (19)
- Exercise (18)
- depression and a PhD (18)
- discussion chapter (18)
- writer's block (17)
- Having a Research Assistant - RA (16)
- Work habits (16)
- getting married and doing a PhD (16)
- Tedium (15)
- evening working (15)
- weekend working (15)
- Structured time off (14)
- Uncertainty (14)
- crisis of confidence (14)
- stressful (14)
- Thinker's block (13)
- Writing first Chapter (13)
- conferences (13)
- preparing for the viva (13)
- life after fieldwork (12)
- preparing for a conference (12)
- Impromptu Duvet/Sun Days (11)
- conclusion (11)
- bereavement during a PhD (10)
- Fear (9)
- Maternity Leave (9)
- bloody references (9)
- sense of urgency (9)
- Politics (8)
- Preparing for a new chapter (8)
- life after the PhD (8)
- taking time off (8)
- writing a chapter (8)
- Being an Academic (7)
- Life post-PhD (7)
- lonely (7)
- rollercoaster (7)
- Approaching Second Chapter (6)
- Being a Mum and an Academic (6)
- Planning (6)
- being signed off (6)
- break in fieldwork (6)
- christmas (6)
- keeping momentum (6)
- last few days of the PhD (6)
- prelims and gumph (6)
- presenting (6)
- revising chapters (6)
- Aftermath of second chapter (5)
- PhD induced craziness (5)
- Popular culture (5)
- Second Chapter (5)
- Transfer meeting (5)
- doing fieldwork (5)
- fieldwork trip # 2 (final) (5)
- getting the first draft back (5)
- pre-fieldwork panic (5)
- writing the first draft (5)
- writing the third chapter (5)
- Chapter number four (4)
- ESRC (4)
- Getting a job after a PhD (4)
- Research at Site One (4)
- being sociable (4)
- comedy colonial abroad (4)
- confusing (4)
- endnote (4)
- getting published (4)
- motivating deadlines (4)
- plugging away (4)
- research fatigue (4)
- submitting (4)
- writing a presentation for a conference (4)
- writing the fourth chapter (4)
- Capitalism (3)
- India (3)
- Preparing for Maternity Leave (3)
- exiting the 'field' (3)
- family (3)
- ill baby (3)
- leaving the PhD (3)
- moving house (3)
- naivety in Fieldwork (3)
- staying focused (3)
- suspension (3)
- Another chapter down (2)
- Chaz The Fantail Goldfish (2)
- Engagement and PhD (2)
- International Relations (2)
- Interviewing (2)
- MRes (2)
- Paper # 1 and Chaper four (2)
- PhD Advice Section (2)
- PhD Rage (2)
- Work breaks in fieldwork (2)
- about me (2)
- finished (2)
- getting the doctorate (2)
- graduating (2)
- hard bloody work (2)
- how to write (2)
- maturity (2)
- missing engagements (2)
- nervewracking (2)
- networking (2)
- new years eve (2)
- organising your thesis (2)
- plagiarism (2)
- post-fieldwork planning (2)
- there are no labels for this feeling (2)
- translating interviews (2)
- trying to be a 'researcher'; fieldwork tips and tricks (2)
- waiting for corrections approval (2)
- waiting for the first draft to come back (2)
- working from home (2)
- working nights (2)
- writing chapter outlines (2)
- writing papers (2)
- Disappointment (1)
- GTA (1)
- JFDI (1)
- Methodology Chapter- Num. Three; Chapter stats (1)
- PhD Student (1)
- PhD paradox (1)
- Planning Fallacy (1)
- Think I Could Complete... (1)
- acknowledgements (1)
- all done (1)
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- c (1)
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- determination (1)
- doing the viva (1)
- getting married and doing a PhD; doing the literature review (1)
- handing in year (1)
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