Hi everyone I have been reading this list for about a month now so I thought it was about time I delurked. I'm doing a PhD at the University of Sydney and my subject is the PhD itself. I am interested in how it has been and is being conceptualised, and how that matches the lived experience. To this end I have a small but growing group of PhD candidates (one of whom is myself!) who are keeping blogs about their experience. As far as I can ascertain this could be the first time anyone's been able to look at the process of becoming a doctor using an ongoing longitudinal study - certainly the first time anyone's used an online method. So I'm not, strictly speaking, researching the internet or any facet of it - rather I'm using an online tool to do an ethnographic study. Looking forward to some more interesting posts. I'm finding this list a great resource for new trains of thought. Mary-Helen
Mary-Helen - You might want to look at this Ph.D. thesis (unpublished ms.) Parry, Sharon. (1997). "Doctoral study in its disciplinary context." LaTrobe University. It's nothing online but a fairly thorough study that reviews the PG student vs. the PG supervisor's perspectives on how the research went. She uses grounded theory but at least there's a background there that does reference 'lived experience' of Ph.D. students. Me - strictly the torture track - no comment I could make on any blog would do justice at this point. Re-submitting this week. Cheers, Denise --- Mary-Helen Ward <mhward@usyd.edu.au> wrote:
Hi everyone
I have been reading this list for about a month now so I thought it was about time I delurked.
Denise N. Rall, PhD thesis in revision, School of Environ. Science, Southern Cross University, Lismore NSW 2480 AUSTRALIA Tuesdays: Room T2.17, +61 (0)2 6620 3577 or Mobile 0427 245 497 http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/rsm/staff/pages/drall/index.html Virtual member, Cybermetrics Group, University of Wolverhampton, UK http://cybermetrics.wlv.ac.uk/index.html __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
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