Back from the wilderness
Comments(0) I’m back, after a long break, ready to turn my full attention once again to the glamorous world of postgraduate research.
The transfer meeting finally came at the beginning of June and despite feeling I was going to keel over with stress during the preceding few days, it was a huge success and a motivating experience. I had an ‘extra’ on the panel, a professor with some weighty experience in my subject area who fired a 10 point list of questions at me, but who said afterwards that these were exactly the type of questions I would be asked in the real viva and that I did really well, so although it was tough on the day, it was all useful stuff. My department were a bit worried that having such a large panel would be intimidating but anything that prepares you for the real thing I think can only be a bonus.
Aside from having some time away from the UK in S.E Asia where I sadly took the books with me, I have been away at several conferences this summer – MeCCSA & the IAMCR, presenting a paper, which emerged as part of my analysis on the idea of the human logo and personality branding. I prefer to think of this as taking the data on tour, which sounds a bit more rock and roll. IAMCR was held in UNESCO in Paris and all in all was a great conference with some high quality papers and top notch panels. More of this soon…