{"id":4,"date":"2015-06-08T07:30:42","date_gmt":"2015-06-08T06:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.neuro-memento-mori.com\/teaching\/?page_id=4"},"modified":"2016-11-16T02:58:21","modified_gmt":"2016-11-15T18:58:21","slug":"course-aims","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.neuro-memento-mori.com\/teaching\/course-aims\/","title":{"rendered":"Course Aims and the ongoing blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Image credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nextscientist.com\/write-a-phd-thesis\/\" target=\"_blank\">nextscientist.com<\/a><BR><br \/>\nThis blog was initially developed to accompany a core 13 week course designed to develop PhD students\u2019 research and presentation skills to prepare them for writing, submitting and defending their doctorate and for the post-doctorate job market. Through lectures, workshops and seminars doctoral research students learned about a wide range of research methods and approaches, such as reflexive practice, action and participatory action research, content analysis, survey questionnaire design, visual ethnography, observation, usability testing, web-based online surveys, web logging, digital ethnography, and eye-tracking data analysis.<\/p>\n<p>Workshops enabled students to develop their writing skills for a range of different potential applications. The blog has a number of posts about writing and how to develop a PhD writing habit as this seems to be challenging for many PhD researchers. The key to a less stressful Phd is to start writing early and keep writing every week. Students had\u00a0opportunities to improve their presentation skills through a series of presentations to one another, and invited faculty researchers.<\/p>\n<p>Presentations and workshops helped research students to develop the core skills necessary during the Doctorate in order to be best-equipped for the post-Doctorate job market. These included: how to write grants; how to present research via peer-reviewed publications; how to conduct a job search; tailoring CVs for different markets and countries; how to write cover letters and statements.<\/p>\n<p>I am continuing to update the blog for PhD researchers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cityu.edu.hk\/pg\/201415\/course\/SM8402.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Detailed Course Info<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image credit: nextscientist.com This blog was initially developed to accompany a core 13 week course designed to develop PhD students\u2019 research and presentation skills to prepare them for writing, submitting and defending their doctorate and for the post-doctorate job market. Through lectures, workshops and seminars doctoral research students learned about a wide range of research &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.neuro-memento-mori.com\/teaching\/course-aims\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Course Aims and the ongoing blog<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":672,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neuro-memento-mori.com\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neuro-memento-mori.com\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neuro-memento-mori.com\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neuro-memento-mori.com\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neuro-memento-mori.com\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.neuro-memento-mori.com\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":674,"href":"https:\/\/www.neuro-memento-mori.com\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4\/revisions\/674"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neuro-memento-mori.com\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neuro-memento-mori.com\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}