{"id":2521,"date":"2019-05-06T08:03:49","date_gmt":"2019-05-06T08:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/my-phd-journey-has-really-evolved-over-its-first-year\/"},"modified":"2025-04-05T06:34:40","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T06:34:40","slug":"my-phd-journey-has-really-evolved-over-its-first-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/my-phd-journey-has-really-evolved-over-its-first-year","title":{"rendered":"My PhD journey has really evolved over its first year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;\">One of the things that I love about any kind of large writing project is how it evolves over time. Ideas change, theories develop, and the more familiar you are with the project, the more you\u2019re able to really dig in to what it is you\u2019re trying to do.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;\">This is me, around about a year ago:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center\" style=\"height: 300px; width: 300px;\" title=\"Default Title Text\" src=\"http:\/\/insights.cactusglobal.com\/sites\/default\/files\/My%20PhD%20journey%20has%20really%20evolved%20over%20its%20first%20year%20image%201.jpg\" alt=\"Default Alt text\" data-file_info=\"%7B%22fid%22:%228052%22,%22view_mode%22:%22default%22,%22fields%22:%7B%22format%22:%22default%22,%22field_file_image_alt_text%5Bund%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%22:%22Default%20Alt%20text%22,%22field_file_image_title_text%5Bund%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%22:%22Default%20Title%20Text%22,%22field_image_tags%5Bund%5D%5Btextfield%5D%22:%22%22,%22field_image_tags%5Bund%5D%5Bvalue_field%5D%22:%22%5C%22%5C%22%5C%22%5C%22%22%7D,%22type%22:%22media%22%7D\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;\">Back then, I had a vague idea of my research. In fact, I wrote down what it was then, in my\u00a0<i>\u2018About Me\u2019<\/i>\u00a0section on this very blog:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;\"><i>My area of interest is the relationship between the campaign for parliamentary votes for women, and early female lawyers in the UK. More specifically, I am looking at this relationship in the context of four women: Christabel Pankhurst, Helena Normanton, Eliza Orme &amp; Chrystal MacMillan.<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;\">But, as I read more of the literature, attended conferences and began visiting archives, I realised that my thesis needed more focus. I knew that I didn\u2019t want my thesis to simply be a narrative history of these four women. \u00a0At the beginning of 2018, I began to wonder how on earth I\u2019d fit all four of them in. I know what you\u2019re thinking \u2013 a PhD thesis is HUGE, thousands upon thousands of words. But I really wanted to interrogate the interaction between these women\u2019s legal careers and suffrage activism. Could I do that when I was looking at four women?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;\">After discussions with my supervisor, we agreed to cut two of the women from my research \u2013 Helena Normanton and Eliza Orme. The reason why we cut these two was because in terms of their legal careers, they had received more academic attention than both Chrystal Macmillan and Christabel Pankhurst.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;\">Then, LITERALLY the day after we\u2019d decided this, I found a woman. I was very excited, as this tweet illustrates: <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\">Me when I discover a woman who was a suffragette AND a early woman lawyer and begin trying to piece together her life: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HVLAJiLpyT\">pic.twitter.com\/HVLAJiLpyT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Laura Noakes (@lauranoakes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lauranoakes\/status\/1004716634488164353?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 7, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;\">This woman was fascinating. She had almost nothing written on her, and her personal papers were preserved. Her name was\u00a0<b>Elsie Bowerman.\u00a0<\/b>Luckily for me, my supervisor was fully on board with my research incorporating Elsie.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;\">So, now I had three women, when I\u2019d only just gone down to two. I decided to focus on Elsie Bowerman and Chrystal Macmillan. I did this for a couple of reasons. First of all, Christabel had just had a full-length biography written about her, and secondly, whilst both Chrystal and Elsie participated heavily in the campaign for votes for women, and were likewise called to the Bar as \u00a0practising barristers, they each held diverse political perspectives.\u00a0Chrystal was a committed Liberal, a\u00a0\u2018suffragist\u2019\u2014she was a member of the\u00a0<i>National Union\u00a0of Women\u2019s Suffrage Societies<\/i>\u2014and a prominent pacifist during World War One. In contrast, Elsie was a member of the militant\u00a0<i>Women\u2019s Social and Political Union<\/i>\u00a0and her political beliefs were more conservative.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;\">Also, both continued their political activism AFTER the partial enfranchisement of women in 1918. This was another area in which my research evolved. The focus on suffrage became more broad, and instead became a focus on political activism as a whole. SO, when I began my research, my thesis title was\u00a0\u2018<i>Inspirational Lawyers: The Fight for Women\u2019s Votes and the Role of Early Female Lawyers in the UK<\/i>.\u2019 And now, it is\u00a0\u2018<i>Chrystal MacMillan and Elsie Bowerman: First women barristers\u2019 negotiation of professional and political identities.\u2019<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;\">Personally, I think this is a pretty big change. Over the last year I\u2019ve definitely become more confident in myself and in my work, and I\u2019m really excited to see how my research develops further.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><i>Laura Noakes (<\/i><a style=\"color: blue; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lauranoakes\"><i>@lauranoakes<\/i><\/a>)<i> is a PhD student at the Open University School of Law. This story was published on October 29, 2018 on Laura\u2019s blog, \u2018<\/i><a style=\"color: blue; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/theportiapost.wordpress.com\/\"><i>The Portia Post<\/i><\/a><i>\u2019 (available\u00a0<\/i><a style=\"color: blue; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/theportiapost.wordpress.com\/2018\/10\/29\/how-my-phd-has-changed-over-its-first-year\/\"><i>here<\/i><\/a><i>) and has been republished here with her permission.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things that I love about any kind of large writing project is how it evolves over time. Ideas change, theories develop, and the more familiar you are with the project, the more you\u2019re able to really dig in to what it is you\u2019re trying to do. 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