Hello everyone, I was wondering if anyone has used or is using Sensemaking theory for their PhD research. Which textbooks did you find useful?

Hello Adam

I am sorry that you had to go through such an ordeal, but GOOD on you for fighting your corner. Thank you for sharing with us as I believe this will help all of us as we partake of the PhD journey. Wishing you all the best.

Chelsea

Thank you Moonblue :-)

Daniel Sage, Andrew Dainty, Naomi Brookes, (2011) "How actor‐network theories can help in understanding project complexities", International Journal of Managing Projects in Business, Vol. 4 Iss: 2, pp.274 - 293

Thank you ZH, really kind of you. I will check if I have access to your requested article and pm you.

Chelsea

Hello everyone

I am kindly requesting for the following paper if anyone can assist I would really appreciate it.

Rethinking Project Management: Researching the actuality of projects

International Journal of Project Management, Volume 24, Issue 8, November 2006, Pages 675-686
Svetlana Cicmil, Terry Williams, Janice Thomas, Damian Hodgson

Thank you

Chelsea

Hi Reenie

Thank you, I managed to find a good one, fingers crossed I wont have problems printing it like the last time.

Hi, I was wondering whether anyone could recommend any good poster templates. I am a PhD student and doing my first poster at a research conference. I remember using one template for a presentation in the past, and I had such trouble getting the printers to print it out correctly, I think the measurements weren't quite right or the template wasn't good. I know there are plenty of websites out there. Can anyone recommend. Thank you. Chelsea

Thank you all for your responses. At least I have a rough guide of what current rates are.

Hello, am a PhD student and have been asked to do some marking. Does anyone know what the current going rates are. I know they may vary from instituition to instituition, but would be interested to hear other people's experiences as I have never done any marking before.

SmartDraw is quite good. Hope that helps.

Congratulations Dr Swetchha!!!!! Excellent. This is wonderful news.

Could it be that maybe interests change with time.

I have been thinking today that the trouble is, even if I were to stick it out, what about the language issue??? I struggle as my supervisor has a very strong accent. I have to repeat everything he says all the time, not once but twice or three times, just to make sure we are on the same wavelength. Could I cope with the language issues, dictatorial behaviour plus doing his work for the rest of my PhD. If this is the beginning, God help me.

If I will be honest, the uni that's recently offered me a PhD place has offered me supervisors familiar with my research area, I am wondering whether I should take that offer, in light of all the issues I am going through. Its difficult enough dealing with someone who does not have an interest in your research at all.

The uni that has offered me a place is in Scotland, so I would be travelling a 7 hour journey by train. However after thinking about it today, I kind of feel that I may have a better chance there because they are familiar with the research area and there is also a research group. Maybe its a better price to pay than hit against a brickwall each time. I was watching their uni shoots on Youtube today, and realised that there is so much to learn from their faculty and it would realy interest me too. Probably they would appreciate my research or at least guide me in the right direction.

With my current supervisor he is not familiar with management, health or technology, so am really finding it difficult because it seems he does not know either of the three and does not want to know. The mismatch in research methodology with the 1st supervisor does not help. The second supervisor's background is Politics even though he specialises in Qualitative research. Could I survive with these two???



Chelsea

Hi Radion, I am sorry I did not realise your post was from a year ago and you were giving an update. I thought the post was recent. I apologise for that.