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Part of our ongoing free webinar series at https://www.bigmarker.com/communities/doctoralnet/conferences, DoctoralNet.com discusses drift - what it is, how to recognize it and how to recover. This session was recorded at https://www.bigmarker.com/doctoralnet/room89 during which one of the participants had a very useful example of drift in his research on outsourcing in the automotive industry. Go there if you want to hear that example
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Is Your Doctoral Work
Drifting?
Thank you for coming, we will start in just a moment We will start in just a moment
PhD Drift: What is it? Where does it happen?
Today we will cover
1. Elements of drift
2. Where it shows
3. How to recover
Time is Not Your Friend
1. Ideas drift: change with policies/ innovations, etc.
2. Require constant updates with literature
Drift During Planning
1. It is not a good idea not to know where you are going for too long = loss of momentum and motivation
2. Also not good to change to meet requirements without understanding them
Drift During Writing the Proposal
1. = loss of momentum and motivation
2. Universities change the goals/standards
Where does it show up?
1. Topic drift
2. Writer chasing the
rules rather than
building an argument
3. Loss of internal
consistency
4. Poor review between
iterations of
methodological
design
Specifically…
1. More than one topic/ often not from the same family.
2. Problem statement vs. lead in, context, ideas in lit, etc.
3. Research questions, purpose or are not consistent
4. Theoretical foundation no longer supports the methodology
What is the wood your work drifts against? 1. University guidelines 2. Model dissertations or
thesis 3. Feedback from
profs/mentors
How to recover?
1. Focus
2. Have a good pit crew
1. Reading
2. Editor
3. Supervisor
3. Self belief –
champions
4. Motivation – outside
sources of inspiration.
What are you favorite tools for recovery?
• Groups?
• Tools?
• University level help?
• ????
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