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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 student as an individual project. Supervision dashboard In the video, I show you my student dashboard. In this dashboard, I can easily get a view…

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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 ways of thinking about how to go about structuring your report. In the next few months, I will break down each of the sections you…

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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 final submission is due and many students consequently run into trouble with this process. Given how expensive the services of an editor can be, I…

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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 which come into play when planning a research project. The first blog post considered the vision and objectives of your project, without which you cannot…

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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 covered in his workshop. This blog post is the fourth post in this series, and if you haven’t read the others, I would suggest you…

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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 in the series. The first post dealt with pinning down the vision and objectives of your research project, while the second post provided guidelines to…

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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 the vision and objectives of your research project. It is important that this conceptual step is not skipped in a research project, otherwise, you will…

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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 series of blog posts over the next few months. In this blog post, I will be focussing on the vision and objectives of the project.…

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  • Productivity,  Research

    How to stay motivated as a research student

    May 20, 2022 / No Comments

    5 Minute Read - Research can be lonely, especially if you are doing a coursework degree and you are a social sciences student, where group and lab work is typically not the norm. You may have been forced into group work and frustrated by having to work with people who do not seem like they are as committed as you and now you have a chance to do it yourself, but it’s not all it’s been made out to be. The benefit of doing coursework…

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  • Productivity,  Research

    How to read when time is limited

    April 22, 2022 / No Comments

    3 Minute Read - So we’ve all been there. The lecturer asks specific questions related to the prescribed reading and everyone in the class looks down. The bow of shame. The bow of a student who hasn’t done their readings in advance. Let’s be honest, we’re all busy! There’s work, family, friends, side hustles, and on top of that trying to finish off this degree. One way of dealing with this is to spend the next few weeks averting attention from yourself in class (to…

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