At the start of this month, I set myself the challenge to write a blog every working day – 22 June blogs. In reality I managed 14, plus a couple of days where I edited existing blogs instead of writing new ones. I’m pretty chuffed with that. Importantly, the exercise has proven to me that…
The last couple of days I didn’t manage to write a June Blog at all. The reason being that I was close to submitting a grant and perfecting the argument for that took up all my mental space for writing. I was reflecting on whether there was anything useful I could exratct from the process…
A common theme on this blog is an attempt to provide guidance on the things that, as academics, we are meant to know how to do, but on which we rarely receive any explicit training. For today’s June Blog I thought I’d write one of these posts, about designing a small research project. As people…
For today’s June Blog I thought I would share a few reflections on the research process, based on my attempts to indoctrinate / introduce my children to scientific research. We’ve done a few scientific projects over the past few weeks but the one I thought I would talk about is my nine-year-old’s most recent research…
Since publishing this blog two days ago there has been a very large response on twitter with a lot of autistic people kindly taking the time to feed back on the content. A lot of this has been very positive and all of it has been fascinating, but some people have also fed back to…
It’s episode nine of my June Blogs and this time I want to write a companion piece to the last post, which was about how to start a project. Like a lot of stuff I post on here, I’m not talking so much here about the intellectual process, but more the pragmatic decisions and steps…
Attentive followers (do I have any of those?) may have noticed I didn’t post a June Blog yesterday so today I’m aiming for a double bill to get back on track^. These are going to be checklists for starting, and ending projects. I’ve got a record, I’m afraid, of sharing my student supervision thoughts in…
For today’s June Blog – the 8th so far – I wanted to write about something that I think is often quite hard for students writing up a final project dissertation or thesis. It also seems especially relevant now, in the midst of dramatic changes to research plans dsrupted by Covid-19. Namely… …is it ok…
I didn’t have time to do a blog post today. I was busy making this instead, for my child’s 11th birthday. Sometimes, family comes first.
Episode 6 in the June Blogs series aims to cast some light onto one mysterious aspect of academic publishing – the role of the editor. About a year ago I was approached by the editors of Autism: International Journal of Research and Practice to see if I would like to become an action editor for…