November! I finally start getting back on top of things mentally but I am so behind otherwise. I still have insomnia but I’m working on it! Invigilating exams! Exam season starts again which usually means it’s time for everything to be quietening down on campus as people get serious. I’m struggling through but I’m getting …
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PhD Blogs – More Imposter Syndrome
Imposter syndrome. Imposter syndrome. More imposter syndrome. How to feel like a fraud – Talk about how much you love your research degree when you’re not currently loving it. I started the month doing a talk for new Post Graduate Students for the school. It went really well but I felt like a fraud talking …
PhD Blogs – Imposter Syndrome, Paris and Stalking
Let’s talk about imposter syndrome and mental health. This month I genuinely started to struggle with it. Despite starting the month off strong with a great PGR supervision meeting with both my supervisors. I started to feel like I didn’t know what I was doing enough to be here and that I had everyone fooled …
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PhD Blogs – Ethics
ETHICS – you pain me but you are necessary. Ethics is the flavour of this month and probably next as I get all those pesky details pinned down. There is so much to do on ethics it blows my mind, research on topics around children harbour so many risks it is scary. Still needs must. …
PhD Blog – Cyberscurity Books for Children
This month was busy, so prepare yourself for a long post! July starts with attending “HudCres – In Conversation”, not only was this event massively insightful about other work and research being conducted in the education school, it also helped to inform me about problems with communicating new research around children to teachers and educators. …
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PhD Blog – Summer Literature
This is where the monthly updates went to die for some reason, so I’m bringing it back with some late updates. The application concept I created for my PhD looks likely to not materialise, this is because unfortunately, the build looked too complex for the students who were going to be building the application as …
Hopes and Dreams After University
In 2014 I worked as an intern as part of the University of Huddersfield’s Career Service, during my internship I posted a few informational and personal posts as part of my time there. This blog post was a more personal post about what I hoped to achieve after university ended. Though not my usual writing …