What you need to know about the PhD annual review with Charlotte Haines Lyon
About this episode
Charlotte Haines Lyon discusses the PhD annual review process and shares insights to help demystify it for researchers.
Charlotte Haines Lyon has a background in Youth and Community work. She worked in a variety of youth and community settings and moved on to Adult Education including working with Age Concern. She gained a Masters in Philosophy and Religion at Heythrop College (UCL) and a PhD at York St John University. She worked as a freelance writer for a variety of charities and more recently has been developing Democratic Methodologies in Educational Research. In this episode we look to demystify the annual review process. Charlotte shares her own difficult experience and what she learnt from it. We explore the key difference between annual reviews and upgrade meetings that most PhD researchers don't know. Charlotte outlines the simple shift in perspective that can transform these high stakes moments from dread to opportunity. She also shares the one thing that she always encourages her supervisees to do after intense review meetings. For a transcript of this episode go to: thephdliferaft.com If you would like a useful weekly email to support you on your PhD journey you can sign up for 'Notes from the Life Raft' here: https://mailchi.mp/f2dce91955c6/notes-from-the-life-raft
People in this episode
Host: Emma Brodzinski
Guest: Charlotte Haines Lyon
Topics covered
- PhD annual review
- educational research
- democratic methodologies
- supervision
- academic challenges
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Age Concern, Heythrop College, York St John University, thephdliferaft.com
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