Overview of louiseh269 on PostgraduateForum.com

Overview of louiseh269

Signup date: 05 Oct 2012 at 12:59pm

Last login: 05 Oct 2012 at 8:36pm

Post count: 8

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Are you affraid of failing the PhD?

louiseh269 8 posts
12 years ago

Yes, I'm worried about the viva though I should probably be far more worried about getting to that point than what's going to happen when I get there.

Finding Conferences and Journals

louiseh269 8 posts
12 years ago

Quote From ady:

It might be worthwhile signing up for conference alerts - while you may not actually go to the actual conference, it can 'alert' you to what's happening in your field - http://www.conferencealerts.com/

This looks really useful, thanks! I've already found a relevant conference taking place in a couple of week's time just across from where I work.

The subject librarian is definitely good advice (and someone I'll certainly go to for advice when I can), but until I'm back as a fully registered student I'm not really entitled to make use of resources.

Finding Conferences and Journals

louiseh269 8 posts
12 years ago

Quote From hazyjane:

It might be worth joining Twitter and following people in your field. Academics will often tweet about papers and conferences of interest, and it's a good way to pick up things of relevance that you might not spot via your usual channels. A lot of professional organisations/societies will also have accounts via which they publicise lectures and conferences.

Thanks -- I will definitely follow some more researchers once I've identified who's relevant right now.

Finding Conferences and Journals

louiseh269 8 posts
12 years ago

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I'm preparing to start working on my research again after taking a break, and I'm finding that a lot of the resources I had bookmarked are now obsolete (and others I don't have access to yet as I'm not registered).

Does anyone have lists of current conferences and/or journals bookmarked? I'm doing keyword searching based on the keywords that were relevant when I was last active, but at this point it'd be useful to be able to browse a little wider to get a feel for what's changed around me.

Once I'm actually registered I will be able to call on the institution's subject librarian for help, but I'm trying to get my head into the right space so I hit the ground running.