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By Nana | August 14, 2006 | Topics: Personal, PhD | Enter your password to view comments
Why iPod?
Whilst running, I mean. Many many people are using it. Here at home I don’t meet anyone cos I go very early, but back in the UK I met loads of people. 9 out of 10 were using some kind of MP3 player. I am sure people have their own good reasoning for using it, but the one in the extract from this morning’s chat below is probably the funniest one;)
Idioterna: Nana: a mas ipod 
Idioterna: a mas mp3 player ko laufas
Nana: ne
Nana: poslusam Savo
Idioterna: k jsm srecu 3 ludi in so vsi mel
Nana: to je nek weird fashion
Idioterna: itak mi skos muzika v glavi spila, pa slisat morm psa
Idioterna: ja, ful mi je hecn
Nana: ja:)
Idioterna: morm enkrat spoznat enga
Idioterna: k to pocne
Idioterna: da vprasam u cem je point
TribesG64: idioterna jest to pocnem
Idioterna: TribesG64: u cem je point?
TribesG64: da imaš ritem
Nana: TribesG64: v cem je point?
Nana: hahahahahahaha
Nana: ok, next joke;))
Idioterna: ritem?
Idioterna: sej _dihas_
TribesG64: ti še veš ne kolk je tole zajeban
Nana: kaj to?
TribesG64: maš miren komad… pa laufaš čist počas… pol pa naslednji kakšn hard techno… in letiš
TribesG64: :>
(I apologise to the English speaking readers, I will translate soon.)
By Nana | August 13, 2006 | Topics: Personal | No Comments »
?
A cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind. An empty desk is a sign of ?
Oh well, excuses, excuses …
Last summer this time, I was taking this pictures. I haven’t seen the sea (=haven’t been diving) for almost a year. No wonder …;)) But ALL in the name of PhD, of course! Well, after that, am gonna go deep into the sea … or perhaps deep into a classroom as the semester will start again;)
By Nana | August 10, 2006 | Topics: Personal | No Comments »
Social Side of Methods
Thanks, Regis, for the pictures!
By Nana | August 9, 2006 | Topics: Ljubljana Summer School | No Comments »
20 pages
away from handing in but I can’t find the time to finish off. Summer school is great, I love to see how all the work we have done in the last year and a half got real content and faces. I am highly excited and happy, although a bit stressed (I am against using this word too often, but now I can’t avoid) as I am so close to finishing and can’t get hold of it. I was kind of hoping I would be able to devote 4 or 5 hours to PhD also for the duration of the summer school, but it transpires now that I did some miscalculations;)) Oh well, maybe from tomorrow on when things really fall into a routine.
I need to finish, I need to work on it, cos when I don’t, the boiling water is back. Perhaps I am too tough with myself, maybe I don’t find the right balance. Can’t really say, I just feel these days, despite a great happiness about what’s happening around, that I am torn apart between some kind of melancholic and euphoric state. Maybe is it cos finishing PhD also has some symbolic implications in one’s life … you know .. no more hiding behind “Sorry, I can’t .. have to work on my PhD” excuse;))
Better to start typing in that other file ….
By Nana | August 8, 2006 | Topics: Ljubljana Summer School, PhD | No Comments »
ECPR Summer School in Methods and Techniques
in Ljubljana successfully started off yesterday eve.
Welcome opening
Reception afterwards. Regis has already been set as the leader of social activities;))
Today, some plenary sessions are on the schedule, but real sessions from tomorrow on. According to what has been said yesterday at the introductory session, all the courses will be awfully interesting - If i had time, I cwould certainly attend them all.
At the moment, Patrick Doreian has a pleary speech on Causality in SS.
By Nana | August 7, 2006 | Topics: Ljubljana Summer School | No Comments »
Marie-Hélène
I met her in Cambridge. We sat at the same table, chair to chair at the conference dinner. It was already a desert time when she turned to me and asked my name. We immediately started chatting, and actually haven’t stopped yet. She lives in Oxford, so it was a perfect chance to meet her again, since the Research Methods Festival was happening there. We met almost every day, had great chats, laughs and nice time together. She is from Quebec, but she plans to stay in Europe for a while. She is a person with a great heart, very dynamic, with sparkling eyes, doing all sorts of stuff beside her PhD.
I feel like I met a very good friend that was meant to be met at this point in my life. On the top of it, we are the same age;)
Probably, now, she would be saying: “… c’est vrai??” ;)))
By Nana | August 6, 2006 | Topics: Personal | No Comments »
What else happened?
I met an incredible person Marie-Helene, I had a great post-conference time in London but this I will write when I write my 1000 for today … being a bit behind;)
By Nana | July 30, 2006 | Topics: Les Voyages, PhD | No Comments »
Oxford Research Methods Festival
After the Cambridge conference, I spent some days in London, working at LSE library. I managed to write my 1000 words a day and was getting more and more excited about upcoming Research Methods Festival, held at St. Catherine College in Oxford. Research methods festival … not a conference or a workshop but a festival. It was in fact more of a conference format but in a very dynamic and relaxed way, holding many concurrent sessions on very exciting topics (actually so many concurrent that I was confused most of the time which to attend as I wanted to hear them all).
In the end, I listened to sessions dealing with challenges in ethnography, innovations in qualitative research, ethical issues in social research, CAQDAS software and quality, anonymity & confidentiality, publishing, mixed methods, and QCA.
Again, some new faces appeared to my citations, such as Julia Brannen, Sara Delamont, Dave Byrne, Paul Atkinson and I also had an opportunity to meet Charles Ragin. Now, scrolling down my PhD has became a much more pleasant business;) Every time I run into Paul Atkinson quote, for instance, I start laughing out loud as I remember how he sketched a young doctor who decided to submit a book proposal to a publisher. Or I hear his scream “nooooooo” when he gave us advices on how to cope with publication rejections. All of them are very nice and approachable persons, indeed.
Well, neither Research Methds Festival 2008 will be left out of my schedule!
And, my Research Methods Library is richer for 23 books and journals. Some of them I bought in a splendid bookshop shown on the pictures below, some on the two conferences, and some in Waterstones in London in the section Second Hand, where I usually get to buy some interesting original works of classics.
I wish I had at least 10% of this at home;)
By Nana | July 30, 2006 | Topics: Conferences, PhD | 1 Comment »
2nd Mixed Methods Conference 2006, Cambridge, UK
was a real stunner. The sessions covered a great variety of topics, from most heated philosophical and methodological issues and new tools & methods in mixed methods research to more applied, policy and action oriented topics, such as using mixed methods approach in health, nursing, education and evaluation research. There were sessions also on gender issues, researching young people, language & culture, decision making etcetera. Indeed many interesting issues were debated and presented by a core group of scholars, practitioners and researchers dealing with mixed methods.
At the last year conference, the presenters were mainly from health and nursing disciplines whilst this year this was more balanced as people from variety of other disciplines presented their works.
What I liked, amongst all the new knowledge I accumulated there, is that I was able to put faces to names I am citing all over the PhD, such as Abas Tashakkori, Jane & Nigel Fielding, Donna Mertens, Niki Plano, Alan Bryman, Martin Bulmer, Anthony Onwuegbuzie, Lynne Giddings, and others. Max Bergman and John Creswell were there already last year, along with my co-supervisor David Morgan.
There was also a very lovely moment, when after the conference dinner some of us went to the auditorium, where professor John Creswell played a piano for us. It put a special touch to the conference. It was really kind of him to share his passion for music with us.
All in all, it was a very enriching experience in academic and sociable terms. I am already looking forward to Mixed Methods Conference 2007!
By Nana | July 30, 2006 | Topics: Conferences, PhD | No Comments »