Part time EdD student:

The summer has completely flown by and i feel like all i have done is work (my full time job) whilst parenting my 2 year old son and trying to read for my EdD in and around and when I can. We managed a week in Wales by the beach and that was heaven to simply switch off and enjoy a sunny week. Admittedly the laptop did come with me and I read a journal or two per night just to feel like i was keeping on top of things. I had an assignment deadline early September and when i got into writing my assignment I realised that this task had asked a lot more of us than previous assignments. I had a couple of days where I panicked and I scolded myself for leaving things a bit last minute. I had some really insightful and motivating chats with my supervisor and I hunkered down and made my deadline. With Covid and the constant changing rules and the increasing pressures at work, I have really questioned my position as a doctoral student throughout the summer and I have gone from thoughts and feelin...

At the moment my studies are getting to me as I am in a spiral of constantly second-guessing myself and I want to write about it here to try and undo some of the harsh feelings I am going through. Now anyone that knows me will know that I am not someone to give in easily but my latest assignment has really played with my head. Assignment: This assignment came in two parts - part 1 was a ten-minute presentation looking at a particular situation through the lenses of two theoretical perspectives. The second part of the assignment is an opportunity to take the same presentation and expand on it in a written assignment. I think where my struggles come from is that I perhaps don't fully understand the two theories that I have chosen and that I haven't read enough. For the presentation, I scored 66% which is a fantastic mark here in the UK, so I am obviously doing something right. In preparing for the presentation I was never fully happy with the content of the presentatio...