Category: Study tips

• -WOW!Super helpful resource: ‘DOING FIELDWORK IN A PANDEMIC’-

  DOING FIELDWORK IN A PANDEMIC This is a REALLY helpful and well-organised document with LOADS of methods and tips for doing fieldwork in the context of Covid-19. It’s a google.doc that various people have contributed to, so in a way it’s crowdsourced…and I had nearly lost faith in humans… we can do good after all! […]

  2nd Apr 2021

  MA Social Research 2021, Study tips

• Post Qual Approaches

  https://wrdtp.ac.uk/putting-theory-and-methodology-to-work-in-childhood-research- outputs/ Title: Post quals Putting Theory and Methodology to Work in Childhood Research Notes taken from this online lecture:

  25th Mar 2021

  MA Social Research 2021, Study tips

• -Academia Hacks Short List –

  A list of some useful apps and assistive tech for Social Science Researchers and Academia in general. Also includes some podcasts and concentration playlists :

  12th Mar 2021

  MA Social Research 2021, Study tips

• ~Reflecting on Data Analysis Task~

  Task Review and Reflection: The task for today was to try one of the three methods with a small bit of text based data say for example this could be a policy document an interview transcript. I elected to use three different types of data the first one was some tweets from an online support […]

  22nd Feb 2021

  MA Social Research 2021, Study tips

• -Focus Beats-

  This post is more as a memo for me to remember how much easier doing work can be with noise cancelling headphones and some music. I tend to go for more avant-garde stuff e.g. Aphex Twin, 808 State. Something loopy and percussive does the trick. It really does help with focus and immersion… Once I […]

  16th Feb 2021

  MA Social Research 2021, Study tips

• Apps for Study #3:Audible

  An obvious one. If the book you have been set or if you’re doing wider reading, get the audiobook. I would say, try the library first as they might have it. If not, get a free trial on Audible. If you have a friend who is on your course and reading the same book share […]

  28th Jul 2020

  Study tips

• Apps for Study #2:Dragon Dictate

  Thoughts and ideas move. Sometimes faster than I can remember. By this I mean when I’m writing or typing I start, and then by the time I’ve committed the first few words to the page, my thought has moved on to the next thing. This can be frustrating given I spend so much time writing. […]

  28th Jul 2020

  Study tips