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I'm a PhD candidate at The University of Manchester. My research focuses on the experiences of visible ethnic minorities who are native English speaking teachers (VEM-NESTs for short). I mostly blog about the messy process of 'doing' research in my field. I also write about other aspects of being a doctoral student, such as teaching university level courses or learning how to use social networking tools. All views expressed are my own.
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Recent Blog Posts
- Day 68: Trying out 2 different writing activities 05/20/2013
- On making writing progress: Day 81 05/07/2013
- Working towards a full draft: Day 89 04/29/2013
- Working towards a full draft: Day 97 04/22/2013
- TESOL 2013 Conference Experiences 04/15/2013
Tag Archives: narrative research
Working towards a full draft: Day 89
Methodology chapter done…almost. ALMOST!!! I’ve divided this chapter into two main sections: the rationale for the methodological approach that I used and the research report, which is a descriptive, transparent account of the data generation phase. I originally set out … Continue reading
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Summer “term” and taking stock
I find the time between the last paper marked and the new term induction week to be ‘me-time’ or ‘PhD time’. As a working student doing a full time PhD I’ve had a lot of different priorities to juggle through … Continue reading
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Tagged #phdchat, @eljeejavier, academia, Eljee, narrative research, Phdthesis, planning, research, research design, Thesis
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Presenting a methodologically orientated conference paper with a few panic induced endorphins
Your write an abstract several months ahead of a conference you’d like to attend. You proceed to forget about the content of the abstract for a while until you finally realise that the actual conference paper has to be submitted … Continue reading
