July 2023 Thoughts
REMEMBER - You can do all the things you want to do without a PhD
PhD as activism
Critical and provocative work
Working within constraints (me)
Personal - why do I feel like I need to do this? Bring this reality explicitly into the research
ChatGPT as additional supervisor - a project for the research
PhD process is a critical object? Reflecting on the trajectory of education whilst pursuing an educational milestone
notes-after-first-supervision-discussions
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