"Can't you hear me, S.O.S.?": TLG's PhD study blog!

Today's task: getting permissions for quotes I wanna use for the bit I'm writing up atm. So far everyone has agreed! There's one person I'm nervous about contacting, even though I'm fairly sure they'll give permission. They've a bit of a temper, so just don't wanna get on their wrong side

I really need to get around to watching The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert at some point, given I'm writing loads about it but haven't watched it

Do you have to ask permission because you say who said the quotes? In my discipline, if you anonymise/pseudoanonymise participants, you don't have to ask for consent again.

There aren't any hard/fast rules in my discipline - it's more to do with the fact that I asked it as a question on a Facebook group. I did mention that I'd be wanting to quote people but you never know if people read/understood that bit, unless you ask them again. So I think it's more ethically sound to just ask them again, to be sure Thankfully most people are responding favourably

That moment when LA supervisor is so nice to you that you start welling up and have to make a speedy exit before you cry on her

Colour-coding parts of your chapter's Word document counts as thesis work, right peeps? Asking for a friend

Colour-coding parts of your chapter's Word document counts as thesis work, right peeps? Asking for a friend

Colour-coding parts of your chapter's Word document counts as thesis work, right peeps? Asking for a friend

Yep!

Colour coding

Defo!!!!

Progress is progress, if you’re one step ahead however small it’s one step closer to wearing a tudor hat & gown

So colour-coding did work for me, eventually! Bashed out 500-odd words before my last supervision, and 1,200+ words yesterday Not that they're good words but just trying to get **** down atm

OK so apparently those 1,700-odd words were good words, according to LA supervisor Feeling very confused. Guess I'm not a good judge of my own work

absolutely normal to be second guessing yourself at this stage. The trick is not to do it so much that it cripples you!

Is sadly at the crippling stage/level, which is why LA supervisor insists on weekly meetings, to try and gently exorcise away Oxford/bad habit/self-doubt demons

Thanks for the encouragement!

you will get there. It's easy for me to say 'believe in yourself' but I also grapple with imposter syndrome fairly regularly, so I know it's way easier said than done!

Thank you I just get frustrated with how slow I've been/I am. Sometimes it feels like I'll never submit I've been working 6 months solidly on this chapter and it still doesn't have a complete first draft (Which is mostly my fault, coz I trashed my almost-complete draft at the eleventh hour, but shhhhh )

Sorry that you (have to) grapple with these kinda feelings too It's such a shame how imposter syndrome is rife in academia. I'm just lucky that I have two supervisors who do their best to build me up I hope you have good mentors too?