Alex Walker: Academic Learning and Development: you, me and my PhD
Personal reflections and considerations on tertiary academic development and on my own learning journey.
recent posts
- A month into the PhD and a moment of reflection.
- And so it begins…(officially): My PhD topic – Exploring the potential for an integrated set of professional standards for practitioners working in tertiary education contexts and institutions: a phenomenographic investigation
- My learning journey: from there to here
Alex Walker
Alex heads the University of the Highlands and Island (UHI) Academic Practice Development provision, supporting the leadership and coordination of staff facing professional development and recognition across UHI. At UHI Alex has established pathways for staff to seek professional recognition, set up a successful mentoring programme and established a programme of development opportunities to enhance and develop learning and teaching. This is a personal blog to share reflections, ideas and learning through a PhD.
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Ah the literature review, important, yup. Also mindboggling at the start, the literature-verse seems so vast, where to start, search terms…procrastination. For a creative structure and organisation are a little challenging, I start with a nice table detailing each paper I find, it’s usefulness and search terms, referencing. However, over the last few weeks this…
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This week was the official start of my PhD, although I enrolled a few weeks back the start date was 2 February and this week I had my first supervisory team meeting so all feeling very real now! To mark this, I thought I would share a little more on what I will be researching…
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From there I tried really hard at secondary school. My Head Teacher called me into his office just before my GCSEs. I thought it was going to be a motivational conversation congratulating me on my hard work. Instead it was a talk that outlined how I was an average student with average grades and if…
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