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Week 1: Laying the foundations
Day 1: Your road to PhD nirvana -
Day 2: Honing your research topic and questions
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Day 3: Mapping out your PhD
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Day 4: Setting up your Word doc the right way
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Day 5: Putting flesh on the bones
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Week 2: Developing a PhD success mindsetDay 1: Overcoming paralysis
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Day 2: The time machine
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Day 3: Mastering your emotions
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Day 4: Designing your new self
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Week 3: Reading to write the literature reviewDay 1: How to find the right texts for the literature review
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Day 2: The principles of light-speed reading
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Day 3: Preparing for take-off
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Day 4: Your literature review skeleton
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Day 5: Writing your literature review
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Day 6: Writing a review paper
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Week 4: Writing up the methodologyDay 1: Mapping out your methodology chapter
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Day 2: The theory of everything
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Day 3: The where, why, who (or what) and how of your study
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Day 4: Wrapping up the methodology
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Week 5: Collecting and presenting your resultsDay 1: Getting the green light to continue
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Day 2: Organising your results chapter
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Day 3 Presenting qualitative results
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Day 4: Presenting quantitative data
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Day 5: Discussing your results
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Day 6: Presenting your results in a research paper
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Week 6 Concluding and submitting your thesisDay 1: Wrapping up your thesis
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Day 2: Putting the final touches
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Day 3: Preparing for your PhD defence
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Day 4: Responding to examiners' comments
Lesson 2 of 29
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Day 2: Honing your research topic and questions
In this lecture you’re going to learn how to really hone your research topic and research questions so that they are thesis-worthy and ready to show to your supervisor. You will learn:
- The iterative process and the scientific method
- Research Questions Algorithm
- The Novelty Principle
- The research gap and how to find it
- Research questions, aims, objectives, or hypotheses: which to use?
Don’t forget to complete the worksheet as you’re watching the video. It’s downloadable in the resources section.
