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Nice 👍 video ji

Good 👍

Thank you very much for this, really helpful and informative!

Nice

Brilliant. What fun. A new Holiday Tradition!

Very inspiring, good to know Martin did a PhD while working. Thank you Martin. Great new vlogs. Gerrard is looking very pretty!

This was very good, informative and insightful. Would love to see more like this please.

This was very interesting and useful. Thank you both.

Happy New Year Debra and Ben. Excellent vlog, particularly when you talked about the importance of rest. Sadly there are still too many corners of academia where working a ridiculous amount of hours is expected. Thankfully from what I gather, the culture is slowly changing. Maybe working a normal amount of hours will soon become the norm! Yes, it should be hard but a PhD should also be fun!

Great to have you back! Thank you x

Thank you so much. This channel is a goldmine for any PhD student.

This was helpful. Thank you

great insight

Even when I think I know about a subject, I always pick up new tips from Debra and Ben. Just been trawling through my Twitter account and following organisations relevant to my PhD - great idea! Thank you Doc Coll.

Thank you for this. It has shed more light on a chapter that I am struggling with. And, thank you for suggesting this on Twitter.

Thank you! That was a really helpful especially with a pending APR.

Thank you for doing this. I start in WLV in September and I'm excited / terrified.

This was a reassuring video.... I often feel something is seriously wrong with me as I’m a very slow writer! Good reminder that we should not compare ourselves to others. Thank you x

Thank you! That’s really clear. Perhaps the APR’s could be used as a ‘rehearsal’ for VIva’s for students? So they get the same tech guidelines as if it was a viva?

Thank you for posting this Debra. Was really inspiring to engage with the discussion.

Thank you for this vlog. Just a question about references: What if you read a book or article that in the background has informed your knowledge and you put it in your reference list but not cite it per se in your thesis? Should I remove it or acknowledge it in the list?

Nice refresher. Love the Sunday roast analogy - makes the function of methodology very clear. Thank you!

This is very informative, ty

Sound advice... knowing myself I won’t be able to call myself Dr unless I see it in writing lol. Teachers I think like to see evidence, we are always on the side of caution. 😊

The shed is a wonderful place to be! I’m sure you made it cosy. I’m glad you mentioned the university server being safe as I recently transferred everything onto the university OneDrive. Thanks for this important vlog!

Thank you for talking about my data collection as an example, I might have to check again to see if my ethics is still in good standing. I know the BERA guidelines recently got revised.

Thanks for this - the LR is the first but also the last thing you write - thank goodness for that as I thought I was going backwards!

Thank you both. The distinction between primary and secondary literature is so useful to be reminded about as my readings sometimes overwhelm my writing.

Absolutely useful! Thank you so much for taking our requests into consideration. The clock on your vlog is now in 2019 😊

Great advice. Still need to hone this discipline of taking REAL breaks. Nervous about ‘slipping back’. OK will try the militant approach. Your vlog makes perfect sense. Thank you😎

I really enjoyed this vlog both. Ben has the solution to great coffee Debra... try the snobby filter machine, I do and I find if it’s not instant coffee you can skip the milk. Real ground coffee does not need much flavour lol! Thanks for mentioning our PGR write up group...in the future we could also think of a physical writing retreat with WLV PGRs maybe.

Congratulations Debra! Looks like a very nice frame to put up. 👌🏻So well deserved 🙂

Super useful! Think I'm going to be revisiting your last couple of videos a lot in the coming months :-)

I've got quite sometime before submission but found the video quite informative. Ty for sharing.

Great vlog as usual on abstract writing...if you can do one on the literature review chapter... I have found it the most challenging part so far 🙈

So useful! I'm trying to pull together an abstract at the moment and this is invaluable.

This is right on time as I plan an August full of writing, thank you. Please do more vlogs on writing if you can.

Great vlog both! It’s so important to distinguish between this degree and others. I never really understood it till I was asked to lead with my own voice.

Important advice for us. Thanks. I put out a tweet for you to have more subscribers as some students might not yet be.

I remember coming in to wlv in my first few months as a PGR and attending Dr Ben Halligan’s workshop on Networking and one of the things advised was open a twitter account, for someone like me as a distant learner it’s been the best thing I did next to blogging and TH-cam vlogs. Thanks for telling us these things long before this vlog.

Found a list of predatory journals by Beall and this is the link beallslist.weebly.com/# I’m glad the IAFOR are not listed as I’ve been accepted to publish with them after the ECE 2019.

Thank you for this video, I was under the impression that I should not publish too much in my PhD as it could take away from the original contribution of the PhD. However, you clarified that by saying how it could take a different angle to the PhD.

Summer is basically the only time I can work uninterrupted. Precious time for people who work full time too. Great vlog both. 😊

Thank you so much Ben and Debra! I’m so glad that I have a supervisor who listens so attentively to me, again feeling really blessed to be a part of the Doctoral College. Ben you’re so right in saying that everyone else like make up artists etc are doing this so why not academics too, I think Tara would agree that this vlog is equally good! Thanks again.

Here is Tara's video th-cam.com/video/T_p8tRIZH0c/w-d-xo.html

Thank you for this. I think APR is quite scary for me but saying that I agree with Ben that it is preparing me for the viva and is a real health check which is necessary. Fingers crossed for myself as I come up to mine 🙈🤞🏻

Another great vlog with really useful tips. I'm working on a presentation at the moment so I will definitely be trying out the Powerpoint tips.

Great tips thank you. I need these for July. The audio sounds louder today.😊

Helpful tips, eye test hint and all, 😊. I am presenting an ethnographic study on identity soon so images I feel with minimal text might allow me to connect more with my audience. Thank you.

Great tip about a website Ben. Do you recommend any websites that are free to set up?