Archive for December, 2006
What Has Been Really Nice to Remember From 2006:
- finishing the PhD, yesssssss!
- starting to tango –> I am enjoying every second of it. Especially I love milongas.
- meeting all my Belgian freinds at the beginning of the year.
- going to Matla and meeting my dear friend Alison again (we had been longing for this for ages).
- finishing the PhD, yesssssss!
- meeting all the friendly and great people from EU Kids Online network.
- doing the first ECPR Summer School in Ljubljana;)
- spending time with my precious nephews Zan and Jaka.
- finishing the PhD, yesssssss!
- oh yes, and finishing the PhD, yesssssss!
- and many many more, these only being the highlights;)
There have also been some very painful, sad and dreadful moments when I hurt people or was hurt (which was mostly, sadly, related to my selfish period of writing up) but I will leave those in 2006.
By Nana | December 31, 2006 | Topics: Personal | 3 Comments »
Postanje iz FF
No, te dni sem si vzela cas in sformatirala svoj laptop, in med nalaganjem novih reči dodala tud tale plug-in v FF. Baje mi omogoča direktno postanje v tale moj blog. Pa da vidmo, če se res kej prikaže;))
Publish to: Con Brio … klik …in?
By Nana | December 27, 2006 | Topics: Tech | 1 Comment »
Life After Becoming a Doctor –> in Working Terms
Lately, a question that at least two out of three persons ask me is: “So what do you do now that you have become a doctor?” This,of course, relates to my work load.
Everyone assumes that there is significantly less work. O_o, not!
Nothing much has really changed in the terms of work load. Just the structure is different. Beside being a teaching assistant, I have also began to lecture, which is far more demanding. The work for preparation of ECPR Summer School 2007 is already taking place. Then, EU Kids Online project also fills up some of my time. Next, I have to work on getting involved in new research projects.
Plus, numerus conferences are coming up so I am writing and sending abstracts and papers.
But all this is nothing. What I really must start working on, are articles out of my PhD. This is how I can really contribute to the scientific knowledge –> by publishing findings from the research in recognized international journals. To be honest, there is also a more pragmatic reasoning behind this than contributing to the knowledge. I need publications in order to get an assistant professorship without which I can’t really climb up the academic ladder. Not that I am pathologically ambitious, but it is a formal request for keeping my job.
Luckily enough, I really like what I do;)) Tho, it often brings me to the dilemma of what is still ‘healthy’ for my private life. I hope to find balance soon, before it is too late.
By Nana | December 19, 2006 | Topics: Personal, Research | 2 Comments »
Delayed Story from Hamburg
From now on (I am not exactly sure for how long, cos there is some strategic thinking to be done after yesterday, when I found out internet could not be connected to the flat I live in as there is no telephone connection), things will be delayed on this blog … if it is possible to do more delaying than I am actually doing already;))
So Hamburg … was really nice. Mostly due to two major factors: I had been set into a *MEGA* room, which was nearly an apartment (it was bigger than my current apartment) in the hotel we were staying at.
Upon arrival, the receptionist (which I also believe was the owner of this petit fine hotel) said:
“Miss Lobe (putting an accent on “o”, pronouncing it in a very German way (Lobe is a German surname anyway)), you have been put in a room 16, which is my favorite room!”
That sounded quite promising to me. So I was expecting kind of more-than-on-average nice and cosy room. But when I had actually entered, I was astonished by its actual size and furniture. It had a big double bad on one side, then on the other side, a huge sofa and two armchairs and a little table. Above the sofa, a few meters tall palm-tree was climbing up to a quite high ceiling. In yet another corner there was a working desk and the entrance to a *huge* terrace. And the bathroom … well, it was enormous, needless to say with a huge bath.
So I was telling to one of my friends from the network what a huge rooms were in there. She said hers was not particularly big but was nice. Just after coming back from the dinner, she stopped by and was literally shocked. We soon figured out from the house plan that it was of a size of four standard rooms. As I *love* big spaces, this was a lucky day for me indeed;)
Well.
I didn’t quite have the time to enjoy all that ‘luxury’ as we had been quite busy with our EU Kids Online meeting, which was really enjoyable and efficient itself. After starting off the project late June in London, this was our second ‘whole network’ meeting, but with some of the members we met in September in Luxembourg.
To tell it in short, our aim is to identify as many studies as possible across Europe regarding children’s access to and use of the internet and new online technologies (we basically already did this, and so far available data can bee seen on our page). Next, we are trying to understand this data itself as it derives from different social, cultural and national context and to compare these studies as to identify the changing risks and safety concerns associated with children and new media uses. Finally, we will produce some best practice research guide for those interested in conducting research with children and will develop evidence-based policy recommendations for raising awareness, media literacy and other practical actions to promote safer use of the internet and new online technologies for children.
What I like the most, is the enthusiasm and effort every involved researcher in the network is putting into the project.
All in all, I saw a very little of Hamburg (I took the above picture 5 minutes before my departure on Sunday morning) but no regrets as we really did some big steps forward in our work;)
By Nana | December 16, 2006 | Topics: EU Kids Online, Les Voyages, Research | No Comments »