PhD

I enrolled on the Health Studies PhD programme at Oxford Brookes in February 2018. This is both incredibly exciting and pretty daunting, as I will be studying part-time trying to juggle the PhD alongside my lecturing position and the manifold other commitments that come with being a dad and partner in your mid 30s.

A key part of my learning is going to be developing the discipline to read methodological and subject specific literature; critique, assimilate and synthesise this with my existing knowledge and ideas in order to articulate my evolving conceptions of the existing literature and my own research project. To that end I plan to use this blog as a way to record my research journey.

In the first instance I will be summarising and reflecting on my reading.  The posts will be often short and probably messy. They are not intended to be a collection of polished, authoritative and comprehensive posts, but an attempt to capture some essence of my thoughts as they occur. My views will likely evolve as I read more and progress along the PhD path. The chances are they will be of no interest to anyone but me, but I would welcome with open arms any views, corrections, arguments or agreements on any of the posts.

Cheers

Ben

(The picture is of my son in beautiful Hope Cove, South Devon)