In this blog I’m going to go a direction I haven’t previously. Maybe not so much a specific direction, but a meandering wander that I’ve been too afraid to go before. This has come about due to an excellent seminar I attended today, about academic blogging. Our seminar facilitator, Mimo Caenepeel, encouraged us to write a blog post without feeling the need to impress or reference extensively. So here goes – I’m going to write about some half-formed thoughts I’ve been having regarding transparency and intervention development without extensive research beforehand. No references, no asking my partner to read through it, just you, me and a (currently) blank page.
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Apologies for the brief hiatus. Shockingly, I’ve had a crazy busy February and didn’t get the chance to write much. I’m currently writing this as I sip wine in a Swiss chateau while a friend makes dinner… after a day of skiing (falling). Life has slowed down momentarily (update: I’m editing this a week or so after I returned from the Alps so that shows how crazy it's been since I returned) and what better time to give an update about my note-taking method developed in the beginning of the year? I just received an email from the journal I submitted my review to with one word that jumped out immediately:
Rejected. I thought this post could serve as a reflection of 2018 and what I hope 2019 will hold. Read on for the good, the bad and the future.
Hi everyone, This may be a random and rambling post, so bear with me. I’ve got so many ideas swirling in my head about blog posts that it can be hard to capture one and write a few hundred words on it, so I’m just going to word-vomit and see where we end up. I don’t want to say life has been great lately, because some bad things have happened to loved ones and stress remains ever-present, but my outlook has been uncharacteristically cheery the past few weeks and I’ve been analysing why… Hi all,
I’m writing this as my train heads home, after a chaotic week in London. The first half of my week was taking a course called “Pragmatic evaluation for physical activity and public health” – organised by academics at the University of Sydney (Dr Justin Richards), University of Edinburgh (Dr Paul Kelly), and University of East Anglia (Dr Karen Milton). The second half was for the International Society of Physical Activity for Health (ISPAH), but I’ll talk more about that in a future post. The Pragmatic course was unlike any seminars I’ve attended before... Hi everyone –
It’s time for some real talk. Lots (and lots) of new things are happening in my PhD: I’m starting recruitment in hospital clinics next week; I’ve been organising and carrying out two studies at once; while trying to write a couple papers and apply for funding, seminars, etc. The days of an empty calendar and my nose buried in papers (or staring at a computer screen) are over, and likely not returning until my data collection is over. And guess what. Earlier this week, I attended my first PhD-relevant conference: the 10th World Congress on the Prevention of Diabetes and its Complications (WCPDC10). I presented a poster of preliminary results of my systematic review, where I essentially conducted two systematic reviews and combined the results together:
Life has been running at a million miles per hour lately and I’ve been feeling a bit manic trying to stay on top of both my professional and personal life. I’ll back up a few weeks and explain.
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Author. About.Audrey Buelo. PhD student at the University of Edinburgh. (Mostly) professional and research-related musings - with the odd cat picture. Archives
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