Alongside the blog and forthcoming book, Jon Rainford (@jonrainford) and Kay Guccione (@kayguccione) were joined through Summer and Autumn 2021, by colleague Sharon Inglis (@SharonInglis) for monthly Part Time Doctorate Tweetchats – #ThrivingPTchat
Our Tweet Chats are now on pause until Summer 2022, while Jon and Kay finish writing the book! Further chats will be announced in the lead up to the book launch.
| Date | Time | #ThrivingPTchat Topic |
| 16/6/21 | 9-10am BST | Why choose a part-time doctorate? This chat will explore the reasons for doing a part-time doctorate and the different routes people follow. Check out the archive of the chat |
| 21/7/21 | 6-7pm BST | Managing your time Discuss how to make the most of your time and ways in which you can juggle the many competing demands of the part time journey. Check out the archive of the chat |
| 18/8/21 | 9-10am BST | Building networks We know that having a support network can be important but how can you build one and where do you find other part-timers? Check out the archive of the chat |
| 15/9/21 | 6-7pm BST | Juggling identities Part-time research means also having other activities and commitments to juggle. Find out about how others manage this, and share your tips. Check out the archive of the chat |
| Topics for Summer 2022 | Keeping well and finding balance, The supervisor relationship, Making the most of conferences, Dealing with feedback, Taught doctorates and more! |
We will also be joined by some guest hosts to explore some of the issues that come up on this blog in more depth. These chats will give you the chance to connect with other part-time doctoral researchers and build your own support networks as well as gaining top tips from those who have been through this journey.
How to take part
A Tweetchat is a scheduled, structured, open interaction on Twitter. To take part just join us n Twitter at the scheduled time. Chats are an hour in length and each one focuses on one theme related to our forthcoming book Thriving in Part-Time Doctoral Study. The overall aim of this series is to connect part-time doctoral researchers and to enable them to ask questions and share experiences.
Through our Tweetchats we aim to support a wide range of experiences to be shared, and to celebrate diversity in the part time doctorate. We don’t aim to conclude a ‘right answer’, or to debate individual experiences. We do take the broadest approach to inclusivity and to peer-support. With this aim we have purposefully designed the chats to be collaborative, inclusive and to focus on sharing and learning.
Some guidance for taking part:
- Use the numbering system and hashtag #ThrivingPTchat, to keep your answers structured, it helps all participants to navigate the discussion.
- Share your personal experience and tag other experts and colleagues you know to do the same.
- Retweet and respond to others’ replies to keep the conversation rolling
- Add an attributed open access resource (article, link, blog etc) if you feel someone else has said it better.
- Make sure your Tweets are accessible. Always use ALT Text when you share an image or GIF, make sure any videos are captioned.
- Ask a further question if you would like to expand the discussion, but bear in mind this is not a way to get a personalised answer to an individual concern.
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