North West Social Science Doctoral Training Partnership
How did we tell the time without clocks and calendars?
Susie Johns, Economic and Social History, Keele University, 2020 Cohort
I am writing this article in the 68th year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth II, five months since the annual Statutes Fair came to the market town where I live, five days after the last full moon. I started writing a little after daybreak and expect to be writing for the time it would take five sermons to be given in my town’s church on Christmas Eve.
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Eleonore Perrin, Development and Humanitarianism in an Unequal World, University of Liverpool, 2017 Cohort
In 2017, I resumed my studies and embarked on a PhD focusing on co-operatives in Northern Ireland. Since I had previously worked in the sector, I wanted this research to be useful to the co-operatives I had worked with. I was adamant research should deliver impact. During fieldwork, I waitressed at a café, I cleaned offices, I shared workspaces with participants, and I even made “Frida” plant pots out of recycled cans! It provided a means to “give back” to hardworking research participants without whom – let’s acknowledge it – research would not happen.
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Rozemarijn Witkam, Health and Wellbeing, University of Manchester, 2019 Cohort
The research I am involved in aims to understand how social factors and obesity interact to influence the development and outcomes of arthritis in the UK. I am using data from The English Longitudinal Study of Aging, Understanding Society and the Norfolk Arthritis Register, three ongoing longitudinal observational datasets.
Read More‘Given time any problems relating to research and writing can be solved’
Andrew Moretta, Postdoctoral Fellow, Socio-Legal Studies, University of Liverpool, 2020 Cohort
I am not an expert on writing or on research techniques. However, the lessons learned during the very intensive work I undertook during the past decade and my experiences of collaborating with bona fide experts has left me with some firm opinions on what is best practice. Having been asked to contribute to the NWSSDTP newsletter I thought that these opinions may be of value to students or to anyone else engaged in writing a substantial piece of work to a deadline.
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