'General networking session with others to share similar research themes/methods etc'

 

#phdchat tweet log - 24th October 2012

 

@NSRiazat - Welcome to #phdchat - topic tonight is 'general networking session with others to share similar research themes/methods etc' #PhD #highered

@lizith - @NSRiazat hello everybody #phdchat

@NSRiazat - Who's joining us tonight for #PhD networking? Quick intros? :-) I'm doing my research in educational ldrshp using a grounded theory #phdchat

@NSRiazat - @lizith ~ Hi Liz - hope all is good in thesis-land. :-) #phdchat

@NSRiazat - @EmmaBurnettx ~ great to see you on #phdchat tonight Emma. Hope all well? #phdchat

@lizith - @NSRiazat yup - heading for the final countdown - 11/1/13 You? #phdchat

@JaneDavis13 - @NSRiazat hi Nasima, hi everyone. I'm studying identity, invisibility and social forces using #groundedtheory #phdchat

@JaneDavis13 - @lizith woohoo ... Is that you final submission date? #phdchat

@Comprof1 - @NSRiazat I've completed phd but hope to help others. Dis was qual Knowledge creation in distributed group collab wkplace writing. #phdchat

@lizith - @NSRiazat Quick intro - I'm looking at tensions in the special needs domain - mashing systems thinking with Bourdieu #phdchat

@lizith - @JaneDavis13 yup - something goes in by then, finished or not! #phdchat

@ai1sa - mine is on change processes and the use of technology; specifically use of sms messaging for counselling. Submitted :) #phdchat

@VickiMcDermott - Hey #phdchat my PhD is looking at young people's experiences and views of partner violence in teenage intimate relationships

@JaneDavis13 - @lizith as a first full draft or a final draft? #beingnosy #phdchat

@Comprof1 - @NSRiazat Degree was in School of Ed, but dissertation was Org behavior, comm, and org learning. Anyone else cross disciplines? #phdchat

@srossmktg - Hey all, what's the topic? #phdchat

@lizith - @JaneDavis13 final draft - nothing in between #phdchat

@JaneDavis13 - @srossmktg it's a general chat tonight #phdchat

@JaneDavis13 - @lizith woohoo! Trying to get mine in this side of Xmas, but otherwise will be joining you :-) #phdchat

@Comprof1 - @ai1sa Congrats! When do you find out results? #phdchat

@srossmktg - @JaneDavis13 Nice. Probably have to leave in ~30 (week 38 doc's appt). #phdchat

@ai1sa - @Comprof1 mine is cross discipline. Situated in ed dept but involves psychology, health, counselling, sociology, media studies #phdchat

@ai1sa - @Comprof1 my uni suggests 10 weeks...just about 2 weeks down so far #phdchat

@Comprof1 - @lizith @NSRiazat Sounds interesting. Can you expand? #phdchat

@lawrenceandrews - Hi Everyone on #phdchat - I'm a final year Phd Immunology student at Uni of Southampton

@lizith - @Comprof1 @nsriazat yup - I'm mixing bits of sociology, psychology and systems thinking - confusing sup'r :) #phdchat

@EmmaBurnettx - Oops sorry - Wrong twitter account! - teenage son seems to have managed to log into my tweet chat!! I'm not Jack Smith!! ;) #PhDchat

@lizith - @JaneDavis13 we're on very much the same timeline then - hope all goes well #phdchat

@ms_rhian - @NSRiazat Hi everyone #phdchat I'm looking at legal and narrative histories of domestic abuse in Kenya c.1929-70

@ASB_Research - My research is examining the impact of siblings and peers on aggressive behaviour. Mixed methods qual used #phdchat

@Comprof1 - @JaneDavis13 Who's your population? My findings may be related as knowledge creation was dep on social forces, power, and id #phdchat

@lizith - @Comprof1 @nsriazat I'm taking Bourdieu's field concept & comparing that with systems approaches & looking at social agents in both #phdchat

@Comprof1 - @EmmaBurnettx Hate when that happens. Have a friend whose son will post as her having to do with putting sister up for adoption. #phdchat

@JaneDavis13 - @lizith planned to get my first draft finished in next week or so but supervisor may not be able to check it out for a while :( #phdchat

@lizith - @Comprof1 @nsriazat also including ideas of habitus and agency and how people use resources to overcome challenges #phdchat

@Comprof1 - @ASB_Research Like the siblings aspect. Sounds interesting. #phdchat

@JaneDavis13 - @Comprof1 I'm looking at 'non-traditional' undergrads in the UK #phdchat

@EmmaBurnettx - @Comprof1 oh dear!! #PhDchat

@lizith - @EmmaBurnettx so we shouldn't start calling you Jack :) #phdchat

@Comprof1 - @lizith @NSRiazat My committee was from 3 diff fields so sometimes diff because they all came w/diff assumptions #phdchat

@Comprof1 - @EmmaBurnettx She keeps forgetting to log out of facebook. Rather amusing really. #phdchat

@lizith - @JaneDavis13 I'm unsure how much I want from sup at this stage - so difficult earlier in process! #phdchat

@EmmaBurnettx - @lizith i think I'll stick to Emma - it suits me better than Jack! ha ha! :) #phdchat

@NSRiazat - @JaneDavis13 @lizith ~ excellent news re: submission. Hoping to get mine in over next few months. #phdchat

@Comprof1 - @JaneDavis13 Different disciplines or the same program? #phdchat

@NSRiazat - @Comprof1 ~ great to have people who have been through process to help the rest of us through. #phdchat

@EmmaBurnettx - @Comprof1 can imagine! Annoying thing is that Jack has his own iPad but pinches mine when he can't be bothered going to fetch his! #phdchat

@lizith - @Comprof1 @nsriazat my biggest prob is a sociologist who does not know or want to know about systems be young Talcott Parsons :( #phdchat

@NSRiazat - @Comprof1 ~ my research touches on collaboration in educational leadership. #phdchat

@JaneDavis13 - @NSRiazat @lizith we will have to party together when it's all over! #phdchat

@ASB_Research - @Comprof1 Thanks. What was your phd about? #phdchat

@NSRiazat - @jack_smithhh ~ Hi - great to see you on #phdchat. :-)

@lizith - @NSRiazat @janedavis13 Must admit I'm totally fed up with mine and just want it over and done with! #phdchat

@srossmktg - Results in, reported for both essays. Now in for writing front and back ends. ~Month to do it all... #phdchat

@Comprof1 - @lizith @NSRiazat In the end, some of my dissertation had to be modified to please all. But hope to publish in multi fields #phdchat

@NSRiazat - @ms_rhian ~ find it really fascinating and intriguing hearing about the topics people have chosen for their PhD. :-) #phdchat

@JaneDavis13 - @lizith @NSRiazat it needs to be finished! #phdchat

@lizith - @JaneDavis13: @NSRiazat @lizith we will have to party together when it's all over! #phdchat . definitely!!!

@NSRiazat - @lizith @JaneDavis13 ~ definitely second that! It's been a long tough journey - a nightmare of a degree at times. :-) #phdchat

@EmmaBurnettx - @NSRiazat: @jack_smithhh ~ Hi - great to see you on #phdchat < sorry Nasima, that was me - somehow my son had signed in on my iPad! #phdchat

@Comprof1 - @ASB_Research It was in school of ed but I wanted to look at group comm, technology, writing, and knowledge creation with culture #phdchat

@NSRiazat - @lizith @JaneDavis13 ~ same here - just want the thing written and finished so I can say 'I've finally finished it'. :-) #phdchat

@Comprof1 - @ASB_Research I could have taken it in Business school, comm/sociology or ed. Ed took my credits from previous MA. Flexible program #phdchat

@NSRiazat - @EmmaBurnettx @jack_smithhh ~ haha - that's funny. Hello 'Emma's son' from all at #phdchat :-)

@lawrenceandrews - On-topic #phdchat I'm bidding to run a multidisciplinary conference w/ a "Science & Society theme. Would anyone like to be on the committee?

@Comprof1 - @NSRiazat @lizith @JaneDavis13 But there's light @ end of the tunnel. Remember thesis is time trial. Still have to finish marathon #phdchat

@andienevitt - Anyone else find it impossible to write and think of it as a draft? It's so hard to leave a paragraph unpolished #phdchat #perfectionist

@lawrenceandrews - @NSRiazat Can my previous tweet be RT'd to see if there's interest? Particularly keen to hear from those w/ a social sci background #phdchat

@redinoztweets - @JaneDavis13 @nsriazat @lizith I have a full draft to go to my supervisors before Christmas. Two more chapters to draft #phdchat

@Comprof1 - @lawrenceandrews Where would it be? Int'l, regional, local? #phdchat

@NSRiazat - @lawrenceandrews ~ done :-) #phdchat

@followstefanie - Grant applications, lit reviews, theory development papers, case studies, interviews & surveys... The life of a #phd #phdchat

@JaneDavis13 - @Comprof1 @NSRiazat @lizith NO ... Don't say that! Thesis has been a marathon! #phdchat

@lizith - @redinoztweets @janedavis13 @nsriazat good knowing who is about the same stage in the journey - can encourage each other #phdchat

@Comprof1 - @andienevitt Are you at the beginning, middle, or end? At the end I still was thinking of thesis as draft! #phdchat

@VickiMcDermott - @followstefanie it's a busy old time! #phdchat

@JaneDavis13 - @redinoztweets @nsriazat @lizith me too! Want to write two chatter up next two weeks then its editing all the way :-) #phdchat

@planetchampion - .@VickiMcDermott @followstefanie If you are thinking of an academic career you will look back at this time as luxury + freedom #phdchat

@lizith - @JaneDavis13 @redinoztweets @nsriazat I'm mainly editing with one chapter to move from notes to something that makes sense #phdchat

@Comprof1 - @JaneDavis13 @NSRiazat @lizith Ok how about leg of the triathlon? Thesis is the cycling section. Then viva/defense and corrections #phdchat

@andienevitt - @Comprof1 Just starting 2nd part-time year. I'm trying to spend less time 'honing' and more time getting stuff down, but tis hard! #phdchat

@NSRiazat - Where else have people been networking with PhD students in their research areas apart from on #phdchat? Conferences? Own Uni?

@JaneDavis13 - @Comprof1 @NSRiazat @lizith just don't do this! Need encouragement not putting off! #phdchat

@Comprof1 - @andienevitt I was like you at the beginning. Then towards the end, I was willing to have it just sufficient for committee. #phdchat

@redinoztweets - @andienevitt I'm just trying to get chapters on paper i always send to sup with a 'not final/review for content only' disclaimer. #phdchat

@redinoztweets - @JaneDavis13 @nsriazat @lizith I'm doing thesis boot amp this weekend. Hoping it will mean another chapter done. #phdchat

@NSRiazat - @Comprof1 ~ same - when it's good enough I'm happy to hand it in. :-) #phdchat

@redinoztweets - @redinoztweets @janedavis13 @nsriazat @lizith that's boot camp, not boot amp. #phdchat

@JaneDavis13 - @redinoztweets @nsriazat @lizith I have taken leave for the whole of next week. Will study in splendid isolation #phdchat

@Paully232000 - @NSRiazat we recently had dept meeting in work and talked about increasing networking and talking about research for collaboration #phdchat

@Comprof1 - @JaneDavis13 @NSRiazat @lizith Don't want to discourage you. Just expect to make changes so do best at the point you hand in. #phdchat

@andienevitt - @redinoztweets @Comprof1 Am hoping it will come with time. Starting to introduce more 'note-like' links between paras and sections #phdchat

@Comprof1 - @JaneDavis13 @NSRiazat @lizith Thesis will never be "perfect" so write so you can complete Learn as you write to prepare for viva #phdchat

@lizith - @JaneDavis13 @redinoztweets @nsriazat I'm hoping to do focused work too next week - just one engagement all week! #phdchat

@Paully232000 - #phdchat is research ever a lonely existence. Not that it is a bad thing at times :-)

@EmmaBurnettx - @Comprof1 finding it challenging at the mo to get my argument across in writing to sups - my methodology & theoretical framework #phdchat

@amberagd - A Passive Voice Lesson with Zombies - I love this! http://t.co/7b9kSnZZ via @EMaree #phdchat #sachat

@NSRiazat - @lizith @JaneDavis13 @redinoztweets ~ hoping to catch up with PhD related stuff next week once we are off for half term. #phdchat

@andienevitt - @NSRiazat So hard to find other PhD students working on #fanstudies. I'm just happy with the odd one I stumble across accidentally! #phdchat

@Comprof1 - @NSRiazat I never met anyone (nor have I yet) who is doing what I'm doing. Feel very isolated if not for #phdchat.

@lawrenceandrews - #phdchat @NSRIazat I'm also keen to hear anyones ideas for multi-disciplinary conference themes and collaboration

@Paully232000 - #phdchat I put a question on http://t.co/mhx1Z09t about my research and got some replies

@andienevitt - @EmmaBurnettx @Comprof1 I find it harder to vocalise my argument. Much easier to spend hours agonising over it in Word :) #phdchat

@lizith - @EmmaBurnettx @comprof1 are they able to help with where communications are not quite working? I sometimes need firm steer #phdchat

@redinoztweets - @Paully232000 can be very lonely if you don't make an effort to engage with others. #phdchat

@NSRiazat - @andienevitt @Comprof1 ~ agree - rare to find people in similar areas as PhDs are so specialised. #phdchat

@andienevitt - @NSRiazat @Comprof1 At least we've got more chance of attaining that ever-elusive originality! #phdchat

@EmmaBurnettx - @lizith @comprof1 a little, & I understand what they are saying, but getting it written down is such a struggle just now #phdchat #phdchat

@andienevitt - @followstefanie You forgot biscuits and tea! #phdchat

@lizith - @EmmaBurnettx @comprof1 is it worth speaking it into a mic and seeing if that gives you a base to write from? #phdchat

@Comprof1 - @EmmaBurnettx @Comprof1 I had to take a step back & try to figure out what THEIR problem w/ my method was. Then able to articulate. #phdchat

@EmmaBurnettx - @andienevitt @Comprof1 I'm the opposite - wish we should somehow swap challenges for a little while! #phdchat

@Paully232000 - @redinoztweets yes I try to engage by going to interesting seminars at uni even not in my dept #phdchat

@redinoztweets - @NSRiazat can't imagine doing this around work, did my MA that way though. At least with kids there is some flexibility. #phdchat

@EmmaBurnettx - @lizith @comprof1 I think that's a good idea as they are much clearer when I talk about it, but confused when they read my writing! #phdchat

@redinoztweets - @Paully232000 I organized a groups of arts PhD candidates outside my dept. we do dinner/lunch once a month or so. Best thing I did #phdchat

@andienevitt - @EmmaBurnettx @Comprof1 I always want to talk to peeps more about HOW they do their PhD rather than what they're doing it on :) #phdchat

@EmmaBurnettx - @Comprof1 yep! Good strategy because I don't have a problem with it - they do! #phdchat

@redinoztweets - @Paully232000 lots of opportunities to engage but you have to drive them yourself. No one will do it for you #phdchat

@Comprof1 - @EmmaBurnettx @lizith I also went back to sources where I got methodology. Many things I had forgotten b/c I was so immersed #phdchat

@NSRiazat - @redinoztweets ~ I work full time as a teacher and study part time. Did MaEd like that. Work has to come first and study second :-) #phdchat

@EmmaBurnettx - @andienevitt @Comprof1 me too!! #phdchat

@ruthmassierose - @andienevitt: I always want to talk to peeps more about HOW they do their PhD rather than what they're doing it on :) #phdchat <- me too!

@redinoztweets - @NSRiazat @lizith @janedavis13 good luck with that :) I know the feeling #phdchat

@NSRiazat - @andienevitt ~ this is the beauty of #phdchat - to get people to share how they do PhD - day to day routines etc. It's a 'secluded' world.

@Comprof1 - @EmmaBurnettx I felt like "NOW, you're asking me? Isn't obvious? Why didn't you ask me sooner?" I felt threatened to certain extent #phdchat

@Paully232000 - @redinoztweets yes very true. I need to make more effort on top of what I am doing at the moment #phdchat

@EmmaBurnettx - @Comprof1 yes!!! Me too! #phdchat

@Comprof1 - @EmmaBurnettx Then I realized they needed to understand my reasoning since they weren't there as I did the analysis/data collection #phdchat

@louclarke1 - Can't believe my abstract got chosen for a podium presentation at the ORS 2013 conference in Texas! San antonio here I come #phdchat

@NSRiazat - Also interesting and intriguing to hear people's reasons for choosing to a PhD. #phdchat

@Comprof1 - @EmmaBurnettx Also might it help if u think you are talking them thru it in case they want to replicate study? My adviser explained #phdchat

@andienevitt - @NSRiazat 8am-6pm: work. 6.30pm-10.30pm: PhD work. Lather, rinse, repeat x 6 years with intermittent biscuits. Submit thesis. Done! #phdchat

@Comprof1 - @louclarke1 Congrats what is the topic? #phdchat

@lizith - @NSRiazat do you mean that moment of madness when the world turned upside down & an out of character decision was made? #phdchat

@davidtharp - @NSRiazat @knodeinc makes it easy to find the best PI's & researchers in any life sciences discipline! @andienevitt @Comprof1 #phdchat

@planetchampion - .@EmmaBurnettx @Comprof1 Which all probably means you had not articulated the problem/approach clearly before. #supsnotmindreaders #phdchat

@Comprof1 - @NSRiazat Mine was to get tenure track position, now only 25% of positions in US are tenure track and shrinking! #phdchat

@EmmaBurnettx - @planetchampion @Comprof1 Is exactly the problem, I know. Is more challenging as they only became my sups half way through #phdchat

@planetchampion - @VickiMcDermott @followstefanie Ha ha Yes REALLY!!!! You will never have so much free time again if you do become an academic! #phdchat

@Comprof1 - @planetchampion @EmmaBurnettx Exactly. Made assumptions about readers that they had same body of knowledge as me. Not true. #phdchat

@ruthmassierose - @NSRiazat to see if I could do it!!! #phdchat

@MaxineDance - @Comprof1 @NSRiazat cross discipline? I'm a dancer in a psychology dept studying social networks!! #phdchat

@planetchampion - @EmmaBurnettx @Comprof1 That is VERY tough. Regard it as Viva practice. And do your method as an 'elevator chat' #phdchat

@redinoztweets - @lizith @emmaburnettx @comprof1 theoretical frame is a disaster. Rambles on for 10k words. Reread whole chap and could see problem #phdchat

@VickiMcDermott - It can be lonely but it's good to talk to others, in person or on twitter! #phdchat

@ruthmassierose - @redinoztweets maybe a diagram might help? #phdchat

@EmmaBurnettx - @planetchampion @Comprof1 They did tell me what I'm going through now will help enormously come viva time... :) #phdchat

@EmmaBurnettx - @redinoztweets same! My theoretical framework chapter was about 15k of complete & utter rubbish! (Still is!) lol #phdchat

@redinoztweets - #phdchat my topic is makeover culture. Looking particularly at women's responses and sidetracking into femininity.

@lizith - @EmmaBurnettx @redinoztweets I've got mine down to about 5k - started writing abstracts of the argument for each chap - focused me #phdchat

@NSRiazat - 8.30pm brings us to the end of live #phdchat for this week - thanks to all for valued contributions - have a good week everyone. :) #phdchat

@ai1sa - @andienevitt i found writeordie and pomodors excellent for getting words written (written kitten on a really struggling day) #phdchat

@VickiMcDermott - @planetchampion @followstefanie hmmm I don't have any free time now! #phd takes over my life #phdchat

@ai1sa - @andienevitt i polished as i went, was too hard for me not to, and was then hard to delete, but i got a tougher skin eventually #phdchat

@EmmaBurnettx - @planetchampion never been a diagram drawer, but this may actually help me link RQs / theoretical framework / methodology / methods #phdchat

@andienevitt - Good chat tonight. Now... back to work, and stop all this dilly-dallying about online! ;) #phdchat

@EmmaBurnettx - @planetchampion thank you for that advice - I actually think that will help me.. #phdchat

@ai1sa - @Comprof1 how are you finding the postdoc writing for multi disciplines going. Am on the cusp of venturing there. #phdchat

@andienevitt - @ai1sa I'm sure sanity will take over one day.... maybe... #phdchat

@EmmaBurnettx - @lizith @redinoztweets is a good idea... #phdchat

@redinoztweets - @ruthmassierose hoping a long break will help, and drafting analysis chapters. Review in December. There will be spider diagrams. #phdchat

@lizith - been a good #phdchat - thanks again for organising us @NSRiazat

@redinoztweets - @EmmaBurnettx always good to know you're not alone hey! #phdchat

@EmmaBurnettx - @lizith: been a good #phdchat - thanks again for organising us @NSRiazat < agree, thank you Nasima :) #phdchat

@EmmaBurnettx - @redinoztweets absolutely!! ;) #phdchat

@redinoztweets - @lizith @emmaburnettx I am hoping the solution lies in drafting the later chapters. #phdchat

@redinoztweets - @andienevitt true that would be helpful. #phdchat

@Comprof1 - @ai1sa Horrible. I have such a sense of inertia! I did start looking for journals this week though. #phdchat

@lilylai - This is an interesting one. Richard Smith: Stratified, personalised, or precision medicine http://t.co/MJHV6juo #phdchat

@VickiMcDermott - @planetchampion @followstefanie I know :) it's a good exercise in project management for sure! #phdchat

@louclarke1 - @Comprof1 thank you, the topic is using novel growth factors to predifferentiate mesenchymal stem cells for disc repair #phdchat

@redinoztweets - @redinoztweets anyone doing any self-reflexive/auto ethnographic analysis? #phdchat

@Comprof1 - @MaxineDance @NSRiazat Ok you get the prize for the breadth of crossing disciplines! #phdchat

@Comprof1 - @MaxineDance @NSRiazat Seriously, your study sounds interesting. R U incorporating dance into the study? #phdchat

@Paully232000 - @NSRiazat thanks again for #phdchat organisation look forward to next week

@kyliebudge - @NSRiazat mostly on twitter. some at work. not much at uni where I study. #phdchat (am late I know, but early here :)

@AshJones26 - #phdchat #ecrchat #PhD any environmental type phders around? Hydrologists/Hydrologists/biogeologists

@NSRiazat - @kyliebudge - great to hear from you :) Hope all well in thesis land? Revisiting article on interviewing peers we shared ages ago. #phdchat

@DrSiHammond - I explored how digital technologies were used by young people in residential care to help them share their stories using DA #phdchat

@katmduffy - All set up for a big writing morning tomorrow. I am armed with a plan! #PhDchat

@redinoztweets - @kyliebudge @NSRiazat my little ones get me up by 5.30am... looking forward to being in the UK next year. #PhDchat will be a sensible time.

@heatherdavis - @colwar: Research for Practitioners: Nine Ways to Reduce Cognitive Load http://t.co/dRFASHGE <-interesting #phdchat

@GMurphy12 - "There is creative reading as well as creative writing" - Ralph Waldo Emerson #PhDchat #edchat

@justinohearn - Anyone going to this erotica conference at Uni of Warwick? If so, we should be best friends. #phdchat #acwri http://t.co/zfDEszZG

@pedepede2 - Appreciative of people with the patience to listen to my early ideas. Helps to have to make sense to someone else. #phdchat

@inthefieldfilms - #phdchat #phdadvice #qualitativeresearch anxiety before doing research normal. real researchers - real experiences http://t.co/9nZ543M4

@Benjy83 - Only just finished work for the day. Shattered. However hopefully, 1-2 hours work tomorrow & 1st draft of ch.6 will be done! #PhdChat

@QSRInt - Free eSeminar - The value of qualitative research. 25 Oct 1-2pm US EDT. Come along! http://t.co/5cR8Zo6I #phdchat

@Comprof1 - @EmmaBurnettx Here's a thought. Do you have anything that they have written? could give you insight into what they like. #phdchat

@Comprof1 - @andienevitt @EmmaBurnettx @Comprof1 Blogging helped me I'd get the idea out there but I didn't have the pressure to get it perfect #phdchat

@annaramona - Great article on open access...helps w/citations + exposure + #tufts helped fund it too! #journals #academia #phdchat http://t.co/b2zVO82o

@CompletePhD - Happy to answer #PhD related questions. #PhDChat # Thesis