What they DONT’t tell you before you embark on a PhD
(originally published in Australia Asia Pacific Institute Review Jan-March 2016, p. 9) Well, if you thought that working on a PhD was about spending 3 years (or more? Yay!) reading […]
Teaching
Supervising someone else’s dream?!!
This year I find myself taking on more postgraduate supervisions than I’ve ever had, though not as many as some of my colleagues because I’m wary of the responsibility of […]
Professionalism and Teaching
It’s been a few months since I last taught an undergraduate class and that’s given me time to reflect on my teaching style. I’ve always maintained that my job as […]
Online Learning: Net Gain or Nett Loss?
In the mid 1990s, a major client demanded I get myself an email account so he could contact me via email. I didn’t appreciate it then but his insistence did, […]
Timely Feedback
It isn’t easy providing timely feedback as a supervisor amidst the many tasks that call for your attention. Does one drop the lecture being prepared, the paper being written or […]
What is Good Supervision?
For the past few weeks I’ve been attending a series of seminars on research supervision, conducted by Geoff Hill, with staff from across the different faculties. Just this Monday we […]
Projects I Supervise
I’m currently co-supervisor on a few projects. One of which is based on the transformative potential of digital storytelling and another on community media in the developing world. My students […]
Congratulations, You’re now a Doctor!
It makes no difference whether one took 3 or 10 years to complete the PhD, round the period of the last year thoughts turn towards what else there is to […]