Managing your workload
Staying in control of our research and writing throughout the whole of the research journey is difficult. Here are some resources to help you manage and organise your texts and materials:
- Watch this video on Managing your research. It encourages you to become more familiar with your optimum study and learning habits and offers advice on:
1. managing your time
2. organising your research. - Consider working with a master document and develop other skills to help you organise your ideas.
- Review your goals to help you refocus on why you’re doing a research degree, and to re-energise you.
- Learn more about managing practice-led research.
- Watch Tim Urban’s funny and painful talk about his procrastinating behaviour:
Inside the mind of a master procrastinator | Tim Urban
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Watch: Inside the mind of a master procrastinator | Tim UrbanTED. (2016). Tim Urban: Inside the mind of a master procrastinator [Video File]. Retrieved from: https://www.ted.com/talks/tim_urban_inside_the_mind_of_a_master_procrastinator
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