This is a little project that my friend Akshika and I brought forward with the support of The Open University. In this video, we talk about the things we wish we had known before starting our PhD journey.
Are you a PhD student or are you planning to start soon? Give it a look.
A fellow researcher (Tina Papathoma) asked me to record a video in which I discuss my experience with the writing and defending my PhD thesis. She presented it to the “How to finish your PhD thesis and successfully defend it” workshop at the 15th EATEL Summer School on Technology Enhanced Learning (JTELSS 2019) which took place on June 1-8, 2019 in Bari, Italy.
Here follow the list of questions I answered through this video:
1. Intro
2. Writing
3. Defence/Viva
The EATEL Summer School on Technology Enhanced Learning (JTELSS) is a flagship event of the European Association of Technology Enhanced Learning (EATEL). It provides a stimulating learning environment where participants get opportunities to develop research skills, increase their knowledge base, collaborate with others in their own and complementary research areas, engage in debate, have access to experts in the field, and discuss their own work. The 15th edition took place on June 1-8, 2019 in Bari, Italy.
Link: https://ea-tel.eu/jtelss/jtelss2019/
Abstract: This interactive workshop will consider ways that will encourage PhD researchers towards finishing the writing process of their PhD thesis and highlight aspects of successfully defending it. In particular, the workshop will be an opportunity to reflect on ways of organizing time and data, on creating a diary and sketch a PhD thesis structure for writing. Hands-on tips on the use of reference management systems will be given. It will also focus on the use of other PhD theses which can guide our own writing, on thesis formatting and on publishing. A PhD journey and particularly thesis writing can be emotional. Therefore, apart from the practical and technical aspects of PhD thesis, this workshop will focus on these aspects of writing such as the writer’s block and how to overcome it. Moreover, it will discuss ways of taking time off the thesis, on handling writing with other commitments (full-time work and family) and will give the opportunity for PhD researchers to pose questions and share challenges and good practices that will enable them to finish their PhD thesis. Further, the end goal of writing a thesis is to successfully defend it. Thus this workshop deals with the decisions that PhD researchers need to make at the writing process which will make an examiner avoid asking tricky questions. The session will initially introduce the topic and will give time to PhD Researchers to work both in groups and individually on drafting their own structure for their PhD thesis writing and identify critical aspects that need to be taken into account when thinking long term goals of defending their thesis.
Speaker: Tina Papathoma, The Open University (UK)
Date: Thursday, June 6 17:30h
Link: https://ea-tel.eu/jtelss/jtelss2019/methodology-workshops/#mew11
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On 30th Jul 2018, I have been invited from Dasha Herrmannova, former PhD student at the KMi, to give a talk at the “Machine Learning and Graph Mining for Big Scholarly Data” workshop organised for the Computational Data Analytics Group at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). In this talk, named “AUGUR: Forecasting the Emergence of New … Read more
On the 8th February I delivered a seminar to my department (KMi @ OU) in which I described the work I have been doing in the last two years for my postgraduate research.
I started with a little bit of introduction about science. Shortly, I moved to the currently available technologies for keeping track of the development of the different research areas. I showed how this technologies were not satisfactory enough if we want to perform an early detection of research topics.
In presenting, the state of the art (including The Structure of Scientific Revolution by Kuhn), I could state my main hypothesis, regarding the existence of an embryonic stage that research areas face, and that it is possible to detect their emergence during this stage1.
With this post, slides and source code, used during the introductory lecture on Audio Signal Processing for Human Computer Interaction, are presented. The slides are available on my Slideshare profile or you can follow the link below. Instead, for source code you can download a zip using the GitHub section below or cloning the repository. The … Read more
