
{"id":2731,"date":"2019-05-28T07:05:05","date_gmt":"2019-05-28T07:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/am-i-making-any-progress-in-my-phd\/"},"modified":"2025-01-15T06:35:10","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T06:35:10","slug":"am-i-making-any-progress-in-my-phd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/am-i-making-any-progress-in-my-phd","title":{"rendered":"Am I making any progress in my PhD?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin:0cm 0cm 10pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:115%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">Last weekend, my husband frowned and turned to me in the middle of watching \u2018G<i>ordon Ramsey\u2019s Kitchen Nightmares\u2019<\/i> one night. He wanted to ask a question: \u201cAre you making progress in your PhD? I mean, it looks like you\u2019re progressing awfully slow.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0cm 0cm 10pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:115%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">My first response was to shrug. For context; my husband works in the medical field, where the turnaround for research projects is a matter of weeks, rather than months or years. To me, it made sense that my medical-industry partner would see my work as slowly progressing, particularly looking in from the outside.<\/p>\n<p><i>Then, I was annoyed<\/i>.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0cm 0cm 10pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:115%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">I began my PhD, officially, six weeks ago. I\u2019m beginning Week 7 on Monday, and what I\u2019ve achieved in those six weeks is far from \u2018progressing awfully slow\u2019. At the time, I vividly recall standing awkwardly in the school admin office, ready to enrol, and wondering how the hell I\u2019d start this mountainous project. There was so much to\u00a0<i>do<\/i>, so much to\u00a0<i>know<\/i>; so where do I start? I\u2019d just finished my Honours year; yet despite a 6-month intensive research project, I was floundering. I did well \u2013 exceptionally well \u2013 but I attributed that to the help of the professionals I had asked to work with me, not my own abilities. Impostor syndrome was strong, and when I walked into my supervisor\u2019s office ready to be handed a near-impossible task, I was ready to be blown away with how little I knew.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0cm 0cm 10pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:115%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">I was pleasantly surprised.<\/p>\n<p>After researching in the field for 6 months \u2013 intensively reading, summarising and writing on the topics of Management, HR, Greenfield sites and Hospitals, I actually knew a bit. Not everything, but I certainly knew quite a bit. Enough, certainly, to enter into a dialogue with my professor based on\u00a0<i>my<\/i>\u00a0expertise.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine that!\u00a0<b>I had expertise<\/b>, and that realisation was SO refreshing.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0cm 0cm 10pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:115%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">So, in the course of 6 weeks, I had actually progressed quite rapidly for my professor. I had read, summarised, tabled, and filed over 70 peer-reviewed papers; written and submitted 2 of my own for publication; and spent my idle hours on Twitter networking, rallying interest in my project, and advertising to stakeholders. Interest has grown and grown; and in the space of 6 weeks, I amassed over 87 people following my project, including people who will potentially hire me for my \u2018expertise\u2019 in the field. In addition, I\u2019ve produced 2 drafts for the Introduction section of my thesis, created a mind map of the theories I\u2019m using, and even typed up summaries of different theories that I\u2019d found during the course of my reading\u2026 3 separate times, for 3 different people who expressed interest in my work. I may not be working in the field yet, but by any measure,\u00a0<b>I have been productive<\/b>.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0cm 0cm 10pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:115%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">No matter how I framed this work, my partner wasn\u2019t convinced. He\u2019s one of the better practitioners in his field, handling a large number of patients and their files every day on top of conducting his own research. His standards for \u2018productivity,\u2019 exactly, are very different due to the nature of his field. (I<i>\u00a0later learned that this was indicative of clinicians\u2019 perceptions of other fields and is quite typical. It\u2019s a culture thing, and it permeates how doctors interact with others).<\/i> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0cm 0cm 10pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:115%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">He didn\u2019t appreciate my work and my progress until he tried to study my field for himself. In order to improve as a practitioner, he elected to do a management unit. <i>Now, a disclaimer:<\/i>\u00a0<i>My partner is incredibly loving and supportive and didn\u2019t mean to seem like he was de-legitimising my work, but he\u2019s one of those people who learn better through experience<\/i>. At the conclusion of his management unit, he turned to me with a hug and said, \u201cThat was one of the hardest things I\u2019ve done for a long time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His struggle was attributed to his lack of knowledge and the vagueness of the field in general. Coming from a medical perspective, he said, there was little guidance, and the field hardly agreed on\u00a0<i>anything<\/i>. He couldn\u2019t prove anything because there simply weren\u2019t studies with evidence that he was used to. No evidence, he said, no clarity. Making anything from that research was apparently a huge task, as it required a lot of synthetization of literature and deduction. \u201cNo wonder it feels like your progress is slow!\u201d he admitted, \u201cYou have to do SO much behind the scenes!\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0cm 0cm 10pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:115%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">Now, this isn\u2019t an anecdote about a woman overcoming the criticism of a man in a male-dominated industry. This isn\u2019t even a tale about \u2018how to make your work legitimate.\u2019 This is a recount of where I started, how I began, and how my work looks from the outside. It looks slow, with little to show for my work, and a lot of uncertainty. But, as I learned, that\u2019s exactly what a PhD in business looks like!<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0cm 0cm 10pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:115%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">I began by reading &#8211; reading some, and then some more, and documenting all my thoughts, quotes and deductions. Drawing links, thinking about it, and then reading some more on a related topic. I have lists and lists of the topics I\u2019ve read to try and start this project with the right theories, and all I have to show for it is a large Endnote file, and a few Word documents\u2019 worth of notes. Far from being unproductive, I set the foundation for what is now looking like a \u2018kick**s project\u2019 (<i>more details to come<\/i>).<\/p>\n<p>It was an eye-opening exercise; seeing the perspective of people \u2018on the outside\u2019 while I\u2019m in the thick of it. It has made me a better researcher, I think. Now I can understand how I\u2019m perceived by the community \u2013 particularly the medical community. It will help me pitch, frame and communicate my work a little better and give me a rare opportunity to address some larger problems in working culture that other people never come across.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0cm 0cm 10pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:115%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><i>And I\u2019m not going to lie. Experiencing my partner\u2019s frustration in attempting my work was a little entertaining, too.\u00a0<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><i>Madeleine Kendrick (<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MIKendrick94\" style=\"color:blue; text-decoration:underline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i>@MIKendrick94<\/i><\/a><i><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"color:black\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">) is a PhD candidate (Scholarship Recipient, Full-time), an Academic Research Assistant, and a Business Consultant. This story was published on June 2, 2017, on Madeleine\u2019s blog, <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/mkendricksite.wordpress.com\/\" style=\"color:blue; text-decoration:underline\"><i>Research &amp; Beyond<\/i><\/a><i><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"color:black\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"> (available <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/mkendricksite.wordpress.com\/2017\/06\/02\/where-to-begin\/\" style=\"color:blue; text-decoration:underline\"><i>here<\/i><\/a><i><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"color:black\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">), and has been republished here with her permission.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend, my husband frowned and turned to me in the middle of watching \u2018Gordon Ramsey\u2019s Kitchen Nightmares\u2019 one night. He wanted to ask a question: \u201cAre you making progress in your PhD? I mean, it looks like you\u2019re progressing awfully slow.\u201d My first response was to shrug. 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