Blog – Debbie Baff

Qualitative Interviewing

by adminJune 19, 2022July 27, 20220

This seems to be a helpful video by James Woodall. Only half way through it at the moment and it’s geared mostly geared towards in person interviews rather than online but still helpful. Also found this paper (McGrath et al 2019) really helpful in terms of offering practical hints and tips https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0142159X.2018.1497149 Still hunting down advice for conducting online semi structured qualitative and/or heuristic interviews to complement the excellent guidance given by Nevine Sultan 😉 …

Empathy

by adminJune 6, 20220

Interesting day today , we delivered the first of our in house DLP course for Bristol, I attended a session on open learning for #MyFest22, I came across a great article by Brene Brown on the importance of empathy in leadership which then prompted me to sign up for access to some free resources, which I am currently watching and I also applied for the Jisc internal leadership programme so today has definitely had a …

Productivity and the PhD

by Debbie BaffMay 31, 20220

Just finished listening to this gem from the PhD Liferaft Podcast … Particularly like the concept around aligning your environment to help make things easier for you to get stuff done. Alison tells the story about trying to get into the habit of drinking more water each day and despite it being on her to do list it just didn’t happen .. however setting up her environment but getting a chopping board and lemon ready …

Productive Procrastination

by Debbie BaffMay 28, 2022July 26, 20220

28 May 2022 I’ve spent most of today redoing this blog (again) for like the umpteenth time. I wanted a format that would allow me to put the blog posts in a grid format but that it would still look pretty .. particularly because I will be uploading my sketchnotes and that way I can see them at a glance .. I’m hoping that this isn’t some form of productive procrastination .. it’s not if …

Confirmation Received and Ethics Approved !

by Debbie BaffMay 6, 20220

By some absolute miracle I appear to have passed my Confirmation and my Ethics !

1952 days and counting

by Debbie BaffMay 6, 2022November 18, 20220

Ethics Approved 6 May 2022 I still can’t quite get my head around the fact that this has come through but apparently, I have now received Ethical approval for my research .. so all I have to do now is actually do it .. this has been a long time coming .. thanks to the Time and Date website I have just worked out that so far I have been ‘doing’ my PhD for 1952 …

Journalling tips

by adminMarch 20, 20220

https://ahappyphd.org/posts/journaling-tips/ Interesting blog post about Journalling through the PhD.

Go Go Go

by Debbie BaffMarch 18, 20220

The University has approved a recommendation from your department that your registration should be transferred to a confirmed PhD. Your maximum completion date for this course is 31 January 2025. Well done in developing a confirmation document that details an interesting study! Confirmation Document Approved 18 March 2022

Retreating into my Comfy Space

by Debbie BaffMarch 13, 2022July 26, 20220

Ok so this week I did the PhD Life Raft retreat with the amazing Dr Emma Brodzinksi. It was a bit of a last minute decision as I wasn’t quite sure I would be able to fit it in as I have had a busy week away at work this week ( at Digifest in Birmingham) but in the end I decided to go for it as Emma has designed it to do either synchronously …

PhD Gantt Chart

by Debbie BaffFebruary 27, 20220

Latest version of my Gantt Chart …