As a round up for 2019 we have been scheduling another three webinar topics. Through the year we also received many queries on accommodating for different Time Zones and days. Our response to such requests was twofold. Firstly, we introduced the “Schedule a Live Webinar” function, allowing you to select your preferred day and time so for us to run a webinar! Secondly, we are now scheduling each webinar on two different days, Saturdays and Wednesdays, and beginning from the forthcoming topic the Wednesday webinar will start at 6pm GMT, while the Saturday webinar will start at the usual 12.00 […]

Through this year we were often asked to run a free webinar on a particular topic. We noted that for most of the requests we actually already had the slides at hand from past webinars or lectures, and therefore could easily run a live webinar again whenever there is a demand for it. To allow you to raise your arm, we introduced a new function that allows you to “Schedule a Live Webinar” at a date and time of your preference.  This will allow you to schedule existing webinars for us to run them again. This is to say that we will […]

Workshops are a very rich opportunity to work towards reaching the next stage of your research. They allow you to reflect on your research, to receive constructive feedback on your ideas and methodologies, and to outline concrete actions required to reach the next stage. Workshops are suitable for those that have their research proposal through (or are close to it), up to those that are preparing for the viva. As we approach 2020, we are now looking for suitable locations and dates to conduct our DoctorateHub Intense 3-day Workshop series. Attendance fee is between €1.700,- (6 participants) and €2.500,- (2 […]

I have come across excellent articles that combine well a first person narrative (which is simple) and keeping the focus on the object of analytics (which requires advanced skills). But to master both together usually takes years of training and practicing, as much as riding a bicycle at a high-wire does. And most people won’t start to learn riding a bike at a high-wire, and likely there is a good reason for that. What I want to point out in this post is, how easy it is for students to go off track once they adopt a first person narrative. Using a first […]

The DoctorateHub kicked off the webinar series in 2017 with a webinar dedicated to the Research Problem Statement. Since then, nearly every webinar picks an aspect of the research problem and solution bias in one way or another. While many of the regulars at the DoctorateHub webinars have expressed a rise in their awareness for the need to continually re-align their thesis to be problem focused, they have equally expressed with some frequency on how quickly and easy it is to fall back to the habit of being solution framed. Given that this is recurring issue, the DoctorateHub are running […]

From experience, there seems to be a common development path on how doctoral practitioners engage with literature. At the early stage we tend to mainly summarise, focusing on the author as the messenger rather than the message they are portraying, picking up conclusions rather than the process of reaching that conclusion. Our capabilities gradually develop into a critical and focused engagement with the literature. The question then becomes, where are we at in our capability journey? Then, what training could we engage in to harness and learn greater critical analysis? The DoctorateHub advised that this is quite easy to spot […]

On Saturday, 1st June 2019, we ran another in our webinar series. This one being on ‘Issues Identification, Problematization and Research Question Framing’. The webinar topic was purposefully selected to coincide with the first week of our Advanced Training Course on the same subject. Problematizing and articulating your underlying research problem, how to subsequently derive the corresponding research questions and ensure these are actionable, are all crucial skills that need to be trained thoroughly. Unfortunately, however, we often see students hastily jump into ‘doing research’, or at least ‘doing something’ that they consider ‘being research’. They are quick to randomly select a […]

The DoctorateHub are delivering the next interactive webinar on Saturday, 1st  June 2019, at 12noon GMT (UK) time. This webinar will focus on problematizing and articulating your underlying research problems, and on how to subsequently derive the corresponding research questions and ensure that these are actionable. The webinar will also look at such areas as understanding the difference between a problem as such, and a problem to you; and how to frame research questions in a way that they explore a problem instead of working towards random solutions. These skills are essential across a broad number of stages; including crafting a […]

On Saturday, 11th May 2019, the DoctorateHub provided an introduction to the principles and application of quantitative research to a receptive group of doctoral students and post-doctoral participants. We were taken through the quantitative research method, where the research aims to determine the relationship between an independent variable/s and dependent or an outcome variable in a population. Quantitative research is often used for a descriptive or explanatory or a combination of in the research design and seeks to test theories or hypothesis, although it could also generate theories, addressing the basic principle of realworld = model + error Practical examples […]

The DoctorateHub are delivering the next interactive webinar on Saturday, 11th May 2019, at 12noon GMT (UK) time, to introduce the principles and application of quantitative research doctoral student could use in their thesis. Data analysis could range from being very simple, such undertaking descriptive statistical analysis or could extend to more complex analysis such as using structural equation modelling (SEM). As most students look to undertake analysis as part of their mixed methods research, the webinar will start with the use of descriptive statistical analysis and how to use the three averages and dispersion; how to undertake correlational analysis; […]