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Odile Mackett

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  • Productivity,  Research

    How to use Notion for student supervision

    October 18, 2024 / No Comments

    2 Minute Read - If you’ve ever supervised more than one student at a time before, you will know how challenging it can be to keep up with progress from each student and where they are in their academic journeys. In one of my YouTube videos, I walk you through how I project manage students in Notion by loading each…

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  • Economy,  Productivity,  Work

    Are you creating an illusion about your lack of time?

    January 26, 2024 / No Comments

    2 Minute Read - It’s that time of the year again. You’re rested, motivated, and ready to take on the world. I am sure you also have a few New Year’s resolutions jotted down next to the plans you have for taking over the world! But, I am going to urge you to take 2 minutes or so, to re-look…

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  • Research

    Notes on structuring your research report

    November 3, 2023 / 2 Comments

    2 Minute Read - Structuring a research report As we move towards submission deadlines, I thought it might be useful to chat about the structure of a research report. Often we are given step-by-step guidance on how to write and structure a proposal, but not a research report, thesis, or dissertation. In this post, I will provide a few overarching…

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  • Research,  What I Wish I Knew

    What I wish I knew about EDITORS

    September 17, 2023 / No Comments

    4 Minute Read - If you open your student mailbox right now, in addition to the multiple requests from fellow students to complete their surveys, you will probably find one or two cold emails from academic editors offering their services. Choosing an editor is often something that is done at the last minute, a few weeks (sometimes days) before a…

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  • Productivity,  Research

    Timelines for research project planning

    July 7, 2023 / No Comments

    3 Minute Read - Project planning is vital in the research context. Without a plan, you will likely fail, as the old saying suggests. This blog post is the last in a series of blog posts in which I outline the points presented in a workshop on research project planning. In this workshop, I was introduced to 5 critical points…

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  • Productivity,  Research

    How to chop, divide, and then eat your research elephant

    April 14, 2023 / No Comments

    3 Minute Read - A few months ago, I attended a workshop on Project Planning in the Research Context, hosted by Dr. Rob Drennan, who works in the Wits Research Office. I then decided to work on a few blog posts, based on the workshop he designed and presented, and broke these blog posts into the five different sections he…

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  • Productivity,  Work

    Why you should focus on the value of your time this year

    January 20, 2023 / 3 Comments

    6 Minute Read - In today’s society, we are very concerned with the value of money. The problem with this approach is that when we consider money as our most valuable resource, we forget other resources that are sometimes more valuable than what we have saved in the bank. As a mother, an academic, an economist, and a time-use researcher,…

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  • Productivity,  Research

    How to plan ahead and avoid getting caught off guard by risks during the research process

    September 23, 2022 / No Comments

    3 Minute Read - If you’re new here, it might be useful to know I introduced a series of posts that deal with project planning in the research context over the last two months. This post thus forms part of a larger set of blog posts and should ideally be read in conjunction with them. This is the third post…

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  • Productivity,  Research

    Research project planning with the right resources

    August 19, 2022 / No Comments

    4 Minute Read - In the last blog post, I introduced a series of posts that deal with project planning in the research context. This post thus forms part of a larger set of posts and should ideally be read in conjunction with them. This is the second post of the series, and in the first post, I wrote about…

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  • Productivity,  Research

    Pinning down the vision & objectives of your research project

    June 24, 2022 / 3 Comments

    4 Minute Read - I recently attended a project planning workshop for research. The reason why this workshop was primarily aimed at research projects is because things hardly go according to plan in a research project. A number of planning tools were presented in this workshop and I thought it might be useful to discuss some of them in a…

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