My learning style..

Soo.... this has been sat as a draft, and I have no idea why I didn't post it earlier.. hopefully it might still be helpful to someone now who is finding those last little bits of analysis.

Having identified in Module 1 that I am mostly a visual learner, with some kinesthetic elements, I chose to capitalize on this when analyzing my qualitative data.

I found it really hard with the sheer mount of data i collected to sort through everything and find what was not only relevant, but useful to my inquiry. Looking back on Module 1 helped me to realign myself and take a fresh look at how I would best analyse my data.

It might sound somewhat simplistic, but I chose a different coloured highlighter for each theme I discovered and systematically went through every interview transcript, marking each of these colours off.

It took a while but the benefit of this was huge as now I am in the stage of drafting a complete analysis and sending work for written feedback, the visual colors have made it so much easier to cross reference and draw together concluding statements.


Whilst there is about 80 pages of transcript, attaching this picture I made I wouldn't run into any ethical implications and continued to ensure anonymity. Thought
it might be helpful to visualise for some people what I was talking
about in the section above. I would strongly recommend it to
anyone who is still analysing as it really helps to see things from
a more basic visual stance.

I have a few more blogs stashed away in my drafts so will be uploading those in the coming week or so, seems a shame to waste them.

Hope everyone is doing well in the final hurdle

Checking in...

It's been a while since I wrote a blog post so I figured that I would write a quick one just to check back in..

I'm sure I'm not the only student feeling overwhelmed at the moment. Seems like there is so much to do and not that much time to do it. At work I have a premiere coming up which is consuming 98% of my time, the other 2% is spent either sleeping or eating... so trying to squeeze in degree work is proving very difficult.

Anyway, enough complaining..

Currently my main focus is literature. As someone who doesn't usually have much time on their hands, I'm finding it difficult to find time to delve into books/articles/journals to find information. The information that I am finding it proving very useful though. It has been instrumental when composing my interview questions for physiotherapists and directors as it is a solid base to build upon and tweak some questions that have perhaps previously been asked to directors and make them more personal to my own professional practice.

I'm looking forward to the group Skype session tomorrow. I feel like it will be good to get an overview on where everyone is and perhaps if someone is further along than I am, they may have some useful advice to give.

I'll check back in after the Skype and will hopefully have a clearer path in mind one exactly what needs to be approached on more of a daily basis as to not get behind my schedule or get overwhelmed (which I am feeling a little whilst writing this)