The Thesis Whisperer: How to write your thesis faster
Duration 0.5 days
Team Researcher Academy

Target Audience: Late-stage Postgraduate Research Students

Brief description:

Researcher Academy is pleased to welcome Dr Inger Mewburn, editor of The Thesis Whisperer (http://thesiswhisperer.com/ ), to this session on thesis writing.

“The problem with writing a thesis is you are not a machine. Your desires are like elephants. Let loose, your desire-elephant will make you sit on the couch watching TV instead of working, download papers and not read them and rewrite perfectly good sections of our thesis while ignoring the unfinished ones. In short, your desire elephant will trample all over your willpower, which wants you to get your thesis done.

We can't fight or kill the desire-elephant, it's just too big. Instead we must accept our fallibility as inevitable and look for ways to manage around it. In place of a perfect system to solve all your thesis woes, in this talk Inger, will offer you a series of ideas, tools and insights which you can take up and use in whatever way works for you.”

Inger Mewburn is currently the Director of Research Training at The Australian National University where she is responsible for co-ordinating, communicating and measuring all the centrally run research training activities and doing research on student experience to inform practice.
Aside from editing and contributing to the Thesis Whisperer
http://thesiswhisperer.com/ , she writes scholarly papers, books and book chapters about research student experiences.

Process

A lecture followed by Q&A

Pre-requisites
None
Who should attend

Those who are in the mid to late stages of their doctoral studies

Related courses: Researcher Academy courses

Getting going on your thesis

Finishing your thesis

 

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