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The long and bouncey road (I made this up)

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Write my discussion chapter and perhaps start introduction

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CHOICES study How older individuals, clinicians and their significant others make decisions following a new diagnosis of cancer.

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One of my mandalas and a scarf I traded for doing a soul portrait 

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Denmark - PhD at Ubiquity University in the US

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Writing connecting sections and discussion section

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Philosophy - Learning and life differences seen through soul portraits and mandalas (developing a tool for the teachers based on symbols)

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Year 7 - submission due August - Extension likely, I work full time.

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Plan A: Messy draft of Findings Part 3.  Plan B: Messy draft Discussion Intro

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Studying Power in Conversations after Self-harm

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Good question! I live mostly in Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada, but my faculty position is 4,000 km away, in Ottawa. I research remotely and teach in person. 

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I am part of a remote cohort in the Yukon, working through the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia. I started studying  in September 2022, did my comprehensive exams in 2024, launched fieldwork in 2025 and am finishing my fieldwork this summer. I'm just getting started on the writing and it's daunting. 

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I'm currently reading and inspired by Rebecca Solnit's A Field Guide to Getting Lost (which is really about finding out about who you really are and I think that's also an apt metaphor for pursuing a doctorate), so I will go with that! 

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To write a rough methodology chapter and to write rough section of some my other chapters, with a focus on the introduction.

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I am a journalist and educator and I'm working on an EdD, a doctorate of education, that is playing with the idea of wilding journalism and thinking of how the more than human can inform and influence journalism (and journalism education) norms, ethics, and practices. 

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Live in South Wales Valleys, study at Uni of Sussex

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Writing up aiming for Sept 2026 to be at least ready for proof reading 

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The Matrix!!! My name is Neo.....there is no spoon!!

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Menopause in the Workplace; My PhD explores how menopause is represented and understood in contemporary organisational life. Using digital image analysis, participatory arts-based workshops and public exhibition, I investigate how working-class women make sense of menopause in relation to work, care and everyday life. The study also develops new ways of thinking about menopause in relation to time, I call it Crone Time .

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The synopsis make me feel like drowning :-)

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My finances are coming to an end, but the PhD synopsis writing is more unclear. I have my articles ready (in reviews), but have a lot left on the synopsis. My supervisors say I will submit my thesis by 1st of September. I am not sure.

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Hjernen er alene (Seigmen) (A Norwegian rock song - "The brain is alone"

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I don't know the English word but my to get rid of my "thesis touch anxiety". I aim at learning to do shitty drafts and progress with words. My goal is to produce first draft of chapter tow and three in my synopsis. 

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PhD - studying the experiences of job seeking migrant women participating in a activation measure. My interest is in the welfare states role in providing migrant women equal opportunities for work inclusion. I am a anaesthetic nurse by background, but have an interest in migration research born form  fieldwork with Doctors Without Borders. 

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In Italy for my first conference presentation

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I live near Brighton on the south coast of England and I'm studying at Kent University.

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To complete a (very) rough first draft of an empirical chapter.

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Public Health - my thesis is about how people living in an economically-deprived coastal community experience and understand the place they live, and how their social and economic context has an impact on their health.

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One of my writing escapes- abandoned my husband and teenage kids- hijacked my parents' holiday in the Lake District!

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Live in Kent- work at University of Greenwich

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Writing up- EdD submission deadline 31st Dec (23:59) 🤣🥂

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Chicken Run - need to plot increasingly elaborate ways to escape my employer for long enough to write anything. I've finally escaped for a month unpaid to finish thesis draft. Does feel like chickens could yet be recaptured - declined a call from my manager today!

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I'm aiming to write my Delphi Findings/ Analysis Chapter

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Education for mental health nurse prescribing readiness

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To finish my methodology section and revise my policy analysis section.

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PhD - examining the knowledge and perceptions of NHS mental health staff on help seeking and disclosing personal domestic abuse at work 

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I'm in my 5th year - switched to part-time in my second year.

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Economic Psychology: how unemployment affects people’s daily time structures and their subjective experience of time, and how these temporal changes, in turn, influence wellbeing, mental health, and labour market behaviour.

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Final stage of a full-time practice led PhD - submitting in November 2026

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The cliff path - beautiful and expansive at points with the slight threat/temptation of the dark swirling abyss below

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Write the first draft of my methodologies chapter

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Theatre - my practice-led research explores how we 'do' co-creation with very young children in order that it is a reciprocal practice for participants and the resultant artwork.

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one of my mandalas and a scarf I traded for a soulportrait

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Putting pieces together for my first dissertation draft

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Pride and prejudice from 2005 with Keira Knightley and Matthew MacFadyen - Wonderful, frustrating, full of pride, full of wauw, funny, heartwarming and swept off my feet

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Writing several parts to connect major sections

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Philosophy. My research is about learning preferences seen through portraits and mandalas. I have worked as a fashion designer, teacher, artist and am presently working as a reading consultant writing my dissertation on the side of my fulltime job (wiping the sweat off my brow :))

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Writing up stage hoping to be finished by the end of 2026.

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To write a first draft of my findings chapters. It will be a rough first draft that I can then work on editing. 

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DHSc - Exploring the career pathway stories of heads of nursing in the New Zealand context. I am a registered nurse and have worked for many years in nursing education.

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I live in Suffolk, UK.  The degree is with Canterbury Christ Church.

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This is about year six, part time with lots of interruptions.  I'm aiming to submit spring 2027.

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I sing my own words 'Plod On' to 'You'll never walk alone..."

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Concentrating on a grounded theory project, aiming to get the writing started, developing thoughts through generative writing.  

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The kinds of materials children, especially boys, might benefit from in art therapy.

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Holiday - Winter sunshine with my two girls 

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Entered my third year full time, but planning on dropping to part time when writing up as circumstances have changed and I need an additional income. 

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No More Drama - Mary J Blige - what a tune! and although it is drama - I am trying to keep it in perspective!

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To feel as though I am unstuck. Words down regarding the theory/methods will help me feel like I am moving forwards. 

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PhD - exploring midwives' professional identity within the context of gender and gender identity. I am a midwife and health visitor by background. 

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Final stage of writing up. I expect to submit in Sept 2026. 

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Write the rough draft of chapter 1. I've spent several months doing research and creating a very complicated outline. Now I need to get the storyline down, just write the whole thing to see the flow of it and then go back and plug in the evidence and secondary criticism. 

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English Literature, a project on refugee literature and collaborative artistic projects with refugees 

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I live in Leipzig, Germany, and am doing my PhD at Macquarie University in Australia and Universität Hamburg in Germany.

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I'm in my last year of my PhD. I've finished three research articles (thesis by publication), and now I need to write the bridging chapters.

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Inception - puzzled, but hoping the timing will work just right in the end.

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Writing a draft of my methodology chapter without getting hung up on all the literature I haven't read yet.

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Education, with a focus on language education in primary school

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Finished in 2010 after 6 years part time

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Support as many people as possible over the weekend.

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I did study law, criminology and higher education but now I'm a PhD coach 

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Looking back I now love my PhD, but at the time I would have said 'Things Can Only Get Better' by D:Ream

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To help you get a substantial piece of writing done, and to help you feel more connected supported and motivated as you do so. 

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I lead the amazing team here at The PhD People, but my PhD was on political science/sustainable development