Reflection – Dr Lynette Pretorius

Tags: Autoethnography, Reflection, Research methods, Research skills, Stories, Subjectivity

Improving students’ understanding by building a culture of academic integrity

Posted: 20 October, 202329 May, 2024

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Credit: This blog post is an adapted form of a case study I wrote for Advance HE. Universities have been cracking down on cheating and all sorts of dishonest academic behaviour recently. They’ve rolled out a bunch of strict rules related to academic integrity and use fancy software to keep an eye out for academic …

Tags: Academic integrity, Assessing learning, Cooperative learning, Ethical research practice, Ethics, Feedback, Plagiarism, Referencing, Reflection, Sociology of education, Teaching practice

Trauma, anxiety, depression, solitude: The impact of COVID-19 on academic identity

Posted: 28 April, 202311 January, 2024

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Credit: Text and images have been republished from an article in the Monash Lens, https://lens.monash.edu/@education/2023/04/28/1385557/trauma-anxiety-depression-solitude-the-impact-of-covid-19-on-academic-indentity COVID-19 brought about unprecedented changes to society, causing widespread disruption to many aspects of our lives. The pandemic has impacted people from all walks of life, but particularly hard-hit have been academics, early-career researchers (ECRs), and PhD students. They’ve had to …

Tags: Academic identity, COVID-19, Doctoral education, Mental health, Pandemic, Reflection, Student experience, Wellbeing

How the pandemic shaped academic identity: Stories of resilience and struggle

Posted: 28 April, 202310 March, 2024

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Credit: Text has been republished from an article in Monash News https://www.monash.edu/news/articles/how-the-pandemic-shaped-academic-identity-stories-of-resilience-and-struggle A new book shares the stories of PhD students, early-career researchers, and established academics during the COVID-19 pandemic to shed light on the struggles faced by those in the industry. The COVID-19 pandemic impacted every aspect of our lives, and academia was no exception. …

Tags: Academic identity, COVID-19, Doctoral education, Mental health, Pandemic, Reflection, Stories, Student experience, Wellbeing

Combining research and storytelling: Using personal experiences as research data

Posted: 30 March, 202310 March, 2024

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I find it quite amusing that I would be writing this blog post to advocate for a research methodology as emotional and subjective as autoethnography. For over a decade, I was trained to conduct scientific research where objective answers were sought to solve problems. My research focused on examining a gene activated in athletes’ hearts …