Ethical approval for my research was finally granted on the 11th January. It was a strangely muted moment; after all the fuss and fight through November and December perhaps there ought to have been fanfares and popping corks. Alas, there was nothing more than the funny buzzing vibration that signals an email notification to mark it.
So I now have the green light to go ahead and my first two 'declarable' sessions with teachers take place in the next fortnight. The data collection therefore begins in earnest from this point, and it is, perhaps, somewhat fortuitous that these two professional learning meetings fall so close together: a happy accident of the mock exam marking period just before Christmas which meant that December's session had to be postponed until now.
I have also applied to undertake a fifteen hour introduction to qualitative methods course which runs, ordinarily, as part of the MSc. If nothing else it may help me get back into the right frame of mind to immerse myself in my studies once more. (From which comment the keen reader might infer that I am not, currently, in such a frame of mind.)
And a further step in the right direction may occur as I prepare for a presentation this Friday to PGCE students at another south coast university on developing a reading culture in school: it will require a revision of material and thinking and I am looking forward to it.
Monday, 16 January 2017
Sunday, 8 January 2017
Waiting Game
After last term's hiatus, I am still not entirely sure if I am back on track.
I have revised my timeline, rewritten my proposal, managed to avoid intermitting, eaten humble pie, submitted for ethical approval, and survived.
But I am yet to pass ethical review and the clock is ticking. And all the while that I don't have it, the scheduled research sessions with my teachers and the rich data collected therein can not count.
Still, I remain, for the time being at least, a PhD student, and enjoyed a little fillip this week as my first article appeared in a peer-reviewed academic journal. (And read by at least one person, according to Twitter!)
I have revised my timeline, rewritten my proposal, managed to avoid intermitting, eaten humble pie, submitted for ethical approval, and survived.
But I am yet to pass ethical review and the clock is ticking. And all the while that I don't have it, the scheduled research sessions with my teachers and the rich data collected therein can not count.
Still, I remain, for the time being at least, a PhD student, and enjoyed a little fillip this week as my first article appeared in a peer-reviewed academic journal. (And read by at least one person, according to Twitter!)
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