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  • Diary of a Postgrad student – Business vs Academia

    • Dawn Walton - 9 May 2018, 07:17
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    I’ve come at my Masters in a different way. I spent 20+ years as a business consultant. I helped businesses improve. I trained people on how to interpret data. I ran a callcentre and was responsible for profit and loss. And then I did a Masters in Psychology and it has been a bit of […]

    Tags: business skills, Masters, postgraduate, reflections

  • Diary of a postgrad student – a tour of our building

    • Dawn Walton - 10 April 2018, 07:16
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    Come and join me while I show you the Scrymegour building and common room. This is where the Psychology department is based.

    Tags: Masters, postgraduate, Psychology department, video

  • Diary of a postgrad student – the end…sort of

    • Dawn Walton - 3 April 2018, 08:06
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    This is my “I’m-happy-my-exam-is-over” face. On Friday I had my advanced stats exam. I’ve always had an interesting relationship with exams. I kind of feel that by the time you sit down and do it, it’s too late. So there is really no point getting nervous. An exam is only testing what you already know, […]

    Tags: exams, Masters, postgraduate, Psychology, Stats

  • Diary of a postgrad student – Exams!

    • Dawn Walton - 29 March 2018, 05:55
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    I have an exam tomorrow. Exams are brilliant. All those tasks that you have been putting off, get done. Even scrubbing the cupboards with a toothbrush becomes more appealing than revising. Even writing a blog post… It’s a long long time since I had to do an exam, and quite frankly, I didn’t think I […]

    Tags: exams, Masters, postgraduate

  • Diary of a Postgrad student – tips for group work

    • Dawn Walton - 19 March 2018, 08:23
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    There is a good chance that you will be doing group work as part of your degree. This is where I’m lucky. I have had over 20 people reporting directly to me and I have run a call centre with over 500 people working in it. I’ve also had to manage people based all over […]

    Tags: business skills, group work, postgraduate

  • Diary of a postgrad student – when the meltdown is not about snow

    • Dawn Walton - 4 March 2018, 11:27
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    Well this week has been a little unexpected. I live far enough outside of Dundee that from Tuesday there was no chance of me getting in. Fortunately, from Wednesday there was no chance of anyone else getting in either. This means that there was no stats lecture on Friday, and no quiz (yay) but we will […]

    Tags: Masters, postgraduate, Psychology

  • Diary of a Postgrad student – maybe this is not my skill?

    • Dawn Walton - 20 February 2018, 08:09
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    I’m starting to think that this whole academic thing is not my skill. I am really, really good at taking difficult and complex concepts and making them understandable by anyone. It’s something I’ve always been good at. I can take information and make it usable. I can get lightbulbs going off in people’s heads. I […]

    Tags: postgraduate

  • Diary of a Postgrad student – my happy place

    • Dawn Walton - 14 February 2018, 05:24
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    I live about 7 miles from Dundee. This means I also live about 7 miles from my nearest Starbucks. I have loved Starbucks since I first visited a US store some *cough* 20 years ago. The woman at the till greeted the guy I was with by name, and gave him his coffee for free. […]

    Tags: Food and drink

  • Diary of a Postgrad student – I got a B!

    • Dawn Walton - 26 January 2018, 02:57
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    Yay! I got a B for the final assignment I did last semester. So my first ever assignment I got a D and on my one at the end of the semester I got a B. So I learnt and I progressed. That’s all you can ask really isn’t it? And that’s the whole point […]

    Tags: Masters, postgraduate, Psychology

  • Diary of a Postgrad Student – back in flow

    • Dawn Walton - 18 January 2018, 10:52
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    And so it begins again. It is now the final semester of my Masters *sobs*. Although, unlike everyone else, we will be working through the summer as the dissertation is not due until August. It is the last semester of attending regular lectures though. So where am I up to? I have completed 80 hours […]

    Tags: Masters, postgraduate, Psychology

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