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Signup date: 08 Sep 2008 at 7:30pm

Last login: 29 Feb 2012 at 9:09am

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Discomfort about being recorded doing a conference presentation - is it reasonable to object?

phdbug 2800 posts
15 years ago

haha the exact same thing happened to kme when I was 12, at a cousin's birthday, in the middle of a huge hall of people where i was walking up to get food. Mine was worse actually, but never mind!

I just remembered, someone had raised some issues at my uni about video recording and since then I think they've started offering podcasts as an option if people would wish. So just audip gets recorded and then in case there are any 'outstanding' glitches, it's edited out. I have also seen some choose the video but keep the cam focused on the powerpoints, or just the audio on...

Harry Potter thread (just in case!)

phdbug 2800 posts
15 years ago

Sounds like there are a couple of Harry Potter fans amongst us here.... any discussions/thoughts?? I saw a Twilight thread once, so hoping this isn't TOO off topic for the off topic section of the forum!

A bottle of Felix Felicis to all for their PhDs!

Who's doing the weirdest PhD?

phdbug 2800 posts
15 years ago

Quote From aussiechick:

Magictime - did you used to be Santa?!!

My PhD isn't on a weird topic at all, I'm studying gifted education, but if I had to choose another topic I would love to do a PhD on Harry Potter. And I know there are some people who have!

OH yESSSSSS I would sooooo love a PhD with harry potter ;-) (going for the movie on thurs)

The nocturnal workers' thread

phdbug 2800 posts
15 years ago

There's me too!!!! Making a sketch out of my conceptual framework with scholars in my 'Room' speaking to each other....to be discussed at Thursday's supervision!!! :-) (Intellectual inspiration, dark room, mild table lamp, caramel custard and some music....)

Who's doing the weirdest PhD?

phdbug 2800 posts
15 years ago

Quote From magictime:

Back when I was a valuable member of society working in the marketing department of a major corporation, I used to sit behind a desk eight hours a day, writing letters from a man who didn't exist to millions of people I'd never met, in an attempt to persuade them to spend money they didn't have on things they didn't want, thus lining the pockets of yet more people I'd never met.

Lovely! I love this quote!! (up)8-)

Who's doing the weirdest PhD?

phdbug 2800 posts
15 years ago

Quote From adam:

PhDbug - I know what you are saying and I know every PhD subject is pretty unique and will be alien to someone. I think you know what was meant from the question :p no need to be pedantic.

Wasn't being pedantic, written words often misrepresent the intentions behind them :-)

Who's doing the weirdest PhD?

phdbug 2800 posts
15 years ago

Quote From adam:

Interesting or not, it's still a strange thing to do. (Compared to medical research or engineering for example)

Adam, don't you think 'strange' is a rather relative term? It's like how a social scientist might find research on an unknown amoeba and its life span weird.... I don't know, just my own 2p as a researcher... perhaps if i wasn't a researcher I would have found many topics strange, including the very act of spending 4 years in poverty, writing a phD to spmeday land some job in some uni somewhere!

Who's doing the weirdest PhD?

phdbug 2800 posts
15 years ago

Quote From gingersnaps:

I heard something on the radio last night about someone who was doing research about the men and women who visit the 'ping-pong' clubs in Thailand. :-)

Again something I see of great interest to researchers of cultural studies....especially ones involved in power, sub cultures and so on.. :-)

Who's doing the weirdest PhD?

phdbug 2800 posts
15 years ago

Quote From adam:

Ok ok, well as an example there was a discussion on PhDs on BBC radio Scotland a couple of months ago where someone was doing a PhD in the Eurovision song contest

Well, I study Media and Comm, and the song contest is not in the least weird to me! Would make for so many insightful PhDs for it is a communicative moment. it would intrest many scholars of media and cultural studies I think! So, i guess, weird will be very very relative, at least to academics!

On bread, well, i guess scientists have much to say on the perfect normalcy of research with let us say yeast, and social scientists could study production consumption patterns and so on!

Discomfort about being recorded doing a conference presentation - is it reasonable to object?

phdbug 2800 posts
15 years ago

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Quote From eska:

Yeah Bug, I do/did realise about saying no, and did pick up on your mention of consent forms, so no need to capitalise!!!!!!

However, it's also sounding from your posts and others as if this is becoming the norm, and as if almost everyone is going along with it - hence it sounds to me as if some form of peer pressure and/or expectation that academics should do this routinely could be around the corner. Academics have sooooo much to do anyway. I mean, what's in it for delegates to do this? what can they gain? I'd really appreciate it if you'd shed some light on that.

Yes, it's a personal thing - and these are my personal views.

I did no capitalise to reinforce my views, I have a practice of sometimes using caps for YES and NO to make them stand out, that is all. I think, on the matter of what's in it for delegates, some (who said YES for that huge conference inn June) told me things along the lines of "an extended audiences being available" and "an opportunity for those who couldnt attend" and someone I think said they uploaded their lectures anyway...

I wouldnt know for sure for I havent reflected on this after the confernece really, but I did note that these folk were happy to let themselves be recorded. If it's any help they were 90% academics who do not speak English (EU people) and some folk from policy (who speak English :-) )

Cheers

Edit: i realise this post has many typos, I am a lil tipsy now LOL.... hahaha

Discomfort about being recorded doing a conference presentation - is it reasonable to object?

phdbug 2800 posts
15 years ago

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Hence the request for consent (and the attendant option of saying NO!) Academics, and research centres increasingly make content available online from spoken lectures, seminars and discussion groups.

Whatever one's personal prefs are, hence, as I say above, the intermediary step of consent! You can say NO, though of course, you can say YES! too.. :-)

Personally, I (speaking just for myself) have no issues whatsoever, and would say Yes! I think it is a real individual issue, and differs from person to person, and the protocol always demands consent.

Discomfort about being recorded doing a conference presentation - is it reasonable to object?

phdbug 2800 posts
15 years ago

hi my school has it very clear. Our theatres can record audio and video and these need to be consented to with the prioir signature of the person concerned on a consent form. Applies for class lectures as well as conferences. One of our lecturers when I was doing my MSc here last yr refused consent I think. I organised a 300 people international conference in June and sent out forms for all speakers requesting consent to record their talks on video and put up thier slides online.

I sent the forms out to around 14 people and I got 14 consents, all saying, YES, of course! within 4 hours I think :-)

Transcription issues - Qualitative Research

phdbug 2800 posts
15 years ago

Quote From littleflower4f:

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omg haha it's all going in the right way for some more infor about this transcriptin can look at it www.transcriptionservicesprovider.com

moderators, please remove this trash...?

Any information appreciated.

phdbug 2800 posts
15 years ago

I do part time work and a full time PhD. That is the most that can be done and I have my fair share of crying days, and days of snapping and snarling due to sheer exhaustion. (and I also have lovely days with lovely things hapopening on the CV front)

All I shall say is that doing full time work and a full time PhD for the whole duration of the PhD is amusingly impossible. It is hardly a question of 'workload'.

it is not something one can do.

Period.

new, confused and alone = the PhD experience?

phdbug 2800 posts
15 years ago

Dramagirl, I shan't contradict anybody's opinions, but all I shall say is that the starting bit of anything is difficult (especially if you have uprooted yourself socially, culturally, emotionally, financially). Teething problems, however severe, may not be the best indication of long term issues.

Anyway, I hardly think yours was a should I quit/should I stay question, and I would be unwilling to take this into that area. You are having teething troubles, you are feeling rightfully flustered, you cannot be expected to enjoy and smile from ear to ear at the first four months of something that is so new in so many not-so-nice ways.

Yours is a post that most of us could have written (will have written) at some point of time in their early days. As I said, I'm not going to take this into the quitting/not quitting area for this hardly looks like a post suited for that!