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<\/p>\nDear Reader,<\/p>\n
It has been a strange year for all of us. I am writing this with the hope of ending the academic term with some positivity, for I have good news to share.<\/p>\n
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First of all, my motivation is back! A combination of fortnightly meetings with my supervisors and some recent tips on how not to procrastinate have helped me work more effectively at home. Personally, I have found the troughs and peaks of being a doctoral student more extreme this year, so I am glad to have reclaimed my motivation.<\/p>\n
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You may remember I mentioned that I submitted a couple of papers for review<\/a> earlier this year. Well, the review period has been and gone, our rebuttals were written and...<\/p>\n <\/p>\n ...one of the papers was accepted!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n That means I will be busy over the next few weeks making the changes we promised we would, before submitting the final manuscript. Keep an eye out for updates!<\/p>\n After the paper has been sent off, I can turn my focus back to the last stages of my research project. I will start the new year by finishing up the plans for my online interviews, the last bout of data collection for my project. I will also start drafting my thesis, which I have started thinking more about after picking up some helpful hints at a 'How to write your thesis' masterclass I attended earlier this week.<\/p>\n I am looking forward to getting started on putting all my work together in 2021. That said, I am also looking forward to a restful break before 2021 starts! I hope you enjoy a chance to relax too.<\/p>\n Stay safe and be kind this festive season.<\/p>\n With warm wishes,<\/p>\n Thomas<\/p>\n Dear Reader, It has been a strange year for all of us. I am writing this with the hope of ending the academic term with some positivity, for I have good news to share. First of all, my motivation is...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1132,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[24,10],"tags":[107,7,12],"class_list":["post-249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engd","category-updates","tag-doctorate","tag-engd","tag-update"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/ar-for-dementia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/ar-for-dementia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/ar-for-dementia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/ar-for-dementia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1132"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/ar-for-dementia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/ar-for-dementia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/ar-for-dementia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/ar-for-dementia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/ar-for-dementia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/p>\n<\/p>\nImage by OpenClipart-Vectors<\/a> from Pixabay<\/a><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"