This post is a continuation from my previous one about having a timeline and meeting deadlines. Since I’m a researcher, I thought I would research it. There are two parts to this process, as I mentioned in the previous post; 1) meeting deadlines to progress with my research/article writing; and 2) setting deadlines for writing …
Author Archives: Joanna
Setting up a check-in group
I’m trying to find the best way to provide regular deadlines for myself. I tend to think, read, process a lot before I write and so I need regular scheduled points to make myself produce output. If there are too few deadlines, there is too much work and the quality and content suffers. Just the …
Needing a schedule and an end date
I was reminded today that I’d been meeting with my Patreon mentor Helen for two years* and the overall output I’ve produced is not much. At least, according to those who know how much output there should be. I’ve written up a survey, a few case studies (still incomplete) and I’m nearly finished with my …
Tightening up the literature review and my thoughts
It’s been a while since I’ve posted and I want to say that I’m still going strong. I’ve nearly finished my first article, which I intend to submit to a journal. I have got to such a stage of writing and research that I filled out a research proposal form for PhD at a university …
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Resources for learning how to PhD
[You can listen to this blogpost on my podcast too ] Update: I have added further links to blogs and resources that have helped me. When I began the process of gaining a PhD by publication, it was part of a ‘learning how to learn’ trajectory. I had completed the Learning how to Learn course …
The role of journalists
In Western traditions of news gathering, journalists are seen as being objective and impartial. Often they are complimented for doing investigative work or castigated for not challenging politicians enough. Ultimately, what comes across is that media consumers have some idea of what they think journalism is. When blogging platforms became easy to use and news …
Harassment of the mayor’s office
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Becoming a journalist
In today’s thoughts, I’m looking at how we learn to frame stories and examine how this helps you provide authority in journalism. There’s a scene in Frasier where Roz has just announced she’s pregnant and pretends to Bulldog that it’s his baby. She paints a scene that leaves him terrified and quaking. She then adds …
Authority in journalism
Planning an article submission If I’m going to get a PhD by publication then I need to submit some articles. My first thought for this thesis, was to start with the authority a citizen journalist needs to (overcome) when starting out. As advised in the book ‘How to get your thesis by publication’, you need …
In the Guardian, the clean air zone
In an audience with the mayor (July 2019), cllr Paula O’Rourke brought up some research she had read about in the Guardian to do with polluting cars. She said it was more robust than other analysis because it used MOT data (administrative data is a wonderful resource) and so could track which cars were the …
Selfie PhD 