Dear Doctorate Diary I have no idea what week of the (academic) year it is any longer…all I know is that, despite everything, I am still doing my doctorate. Go me! I am halfway through my research and have begun writing thesis chapters. However, imposter syndrome plagues me on a …
Dear Doctorate Diary Registration for year 3 is complete and I passed my transfer viva on Friday 13th September no less. I am absolutely stunned to have made it this far. Since then life has been even more of a whirlwind than usual: I had to give all my work …
Dear Doctorate Diary This seems to have become a monthly update, what a change from the beginning of my doctorate journey when I faithfully updated you each week. I’ve not made time for much exercise the past couple months and that really does have to change. I managed to complete …
Dear Doctorate Diary, I’ve completed and submitted assignment five on time which I am so happy about as I had a month after eye surgery where I wasn’t able to work on it. I could have had an extension but that would have delayed me starting on my next assignment. …
Dear Doctorate Diary The apps that I wrote for Health Education England to support families with making sustainable health and wellbeing changes related to overweight and obesity, and to support professionals with having health conversations about overweight and obesity, are now available for free download from IOS and android stores. …
Dear Doctorate Diary I stopped writing here for several weeks because I had suffered a sense of humour failure and all I was doing was complaining. I’ve been busy complaining to myself now and feel as if I am beginning to regain my sense of humour about the absurdity of …
Dear Doctorate Diary After the last two posts I took a bit of a break from writing these posts as I literally did not have one spare minute for this sort of thing. I did consider packing in my doctorate and had a meeting to discuss this with someone who …
Dear Doctorate Diary A week on and I am still struggling with the dilemma of whether I should stop studying for my doctorate and go back to having a life. I do resent having to choose between spending time with my family or exercising or writing my assignments / undertaking …
Dear Doctorate Diary (I hope you’re sitting comfortably because this is a long one) As you know, I am due to head to Canada for a work conference mid Nov. I haven’t renewed my Canadian passport since the 90s because I just used my British passport to travel to Canada …
This blog has been referred to as the Bridget Jones’ Diary of doctorates so I am going to start treating it as such. Dear Doctorate Diary, I’ve had a pretty good week despite some very hectic work days, and continuing to need to work on non-working days. The highlight of …