UHeye

Reflections on e-learning and digital resources from a perspective of activities at the University of the Highlands and Islands, Scotland.

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In the hot seat – defending the thesis

One of the unusual aspects in studying for a PhD is that the final examination of competence (and quality) is based not simply on the […]

Reviewing and revising

One of the strange but common occurrences in producing large pieces of writing is that the writer frequently becomes so close to the text that […]

Appendices and archives

As with every piece of substantial research, it can be a problem to decide what needs to stay in the main text and what can […]

Checking references and citations

It is amazing how many students get into a muddle over the simple process of ensuring accurate links to the supporting evidence for their claims. […]

Conclusions and recommendations

For a PhD, indeed for most academic research, the researcher is judged more on the quality and justification of the research method, rather than getting […]

Areas for future research

There comes a time in drawing together the conclusions of any piece of research, whether it is a long PhD study or a shorter project, […]

Going beyond

Perhaps surprisingly to most novice researchers, a research degree does not need to provide “the complete answer” to a problematic question, only to demonstrate the […]

Interpreting the data

Building on existing knowledge A key role of any supervisor is helping the research student to bridge the gap between the fundamentals about what is […]

Establishing the storyline

One of the first things that both the supervisors and the research students need to remember is that although the dissertation is the justification of […]

How to Illustrate your results

When I was writing up my own PhD (in the antediluvian days before personal computers, desktop publishing software, or graphics packages!) I was given a […]

Using statistics in research

For me, the golden, unbreakable rule is, never use any statistics if you do not really understand what they mean! This might seem obvious, but […]

Timing and deadlines

As the student gets towards the end stages of creating the dissertation, it might seem odd to return to the issues of timing and deadlines, […]

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