PhDone – Summer 2025
Too tired to post here when I completed. I had an amazing Viva with my wonderful examining team and all my supervisors there to support me. But (thanks to my earlier zine-ing session) I did make this…
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Writing and Zine-ing
As I hurtle towards a submission date of 16 December 2024, I took the opportunity to join an academic writing retreat last week. I knew I would need some extra concentration time to write my literature review chapter, and had experience of the brilliant Writers’ Retreat having spent some time at a creative writing weekend…
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Flashback and disconnects
Ever have one of those moments where you suddenly remember why you started this? “This” being a PhD. That’s what happened to me when I joined the TEL Researchers online session with Dave Cormier (soon to be available via their YouTube Channel). Hearing the introduction took me back to 2020, the second year of my…
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LAK24 – Kyoto, Japan
Wow. What can I say. I have just returned from presenting at the international Learning Analytics Knowledge conference, LAK24 in Kyoto, Japan and honestly I still can’t quite believe I was really there. Conferences are always an intense experience; so many experts in one place, so much research and knowledge crammed into 20 minute presentations…
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Conference season
In the midst of data collection, conference season at the Open University has saved me from inverting into myself and my PhD project. Starting with the student organised Spring Postgraduate Researcher (PGR) conference in March, at which I was the first presenter in the first session (eek), it has been incredibly refreshing to have both…
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