This is the home of all things research planning, where you will find tips and hints, links to my planning-specific vlogs, and Bullet Journal links.
There's also a growing number of printables, featuring some of my most useful research-planning spreads! I have made these printables quite minimalistic - if you like them feel free to continue to use them, otherwise you can take these ideas to form the basis of your own spreads. This section will grow over time - for a more daily look into the life of my research planning notebook, you can head over to Instagram, where I post pictures of research planning spreads, and sometimes just pretty stationary. The slides from the Creative Research Management workshop I gave at the University of Leicester's History Lab+ on October 27th, 2017 can be found here. |
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Printables:
Please use and modify these templates as you think will work best for you! I would love to hear about how you're using them, and if you have tweaked them. And, as always - send me pictures of your notebooks!
If you have any suggestions, or have spotted spreads on either my Research Journal Instagram or in my vlogs that you'd like a template for, please feel free to get in touch - the easiest way is probably on Twitter.
Writing Goals Monthly Printable:To print and colour in - for motivation! August is available to download below.
The research pipeline
This includes space for you to fill in what's most important for getting your research projects and manuscripts out the door and into other researcher's hands!
You can see my headings in the picture below.
If you have any suggestions, or have spotted spreads on either my Research Journal Instagram or in my vlogs that you'd like a template for, please feel free to get in touch - the easiest way is probably on Twitter.
Writing Goals Monthly Printable:To print and colour in - for motivation! August is available to download below.
The research pipeline
This includes space for you to fill in what's most important for getting your research projects and manuscripts out the door and into other researcher's hands!
You can see my headings in the picture below.
Writing and Reading Logs
This is a two-page spread including both a writing log and a reading log. In my journal these pages are separate, and you can separate them out easily enough if you one want one (or go though one much quicker than the other - which I find happens a lot depending which stage of a project I'm at). As I do tend to read and write fairly simultaneously, though, I always keep both going! Gantt Chart and Blank Monthly Planner This is another two-page spread, featuring a blank Gantt chart with 32 spaces (so 32 weeks, 2 1/2 years of months, or just over a year of 1/2 months) and a blank month, with seven priority boxes. I have included these together because I use my monthly as a zoom-in of my Gantt chart - making sure all the spreads work together and reflect the same thing is one of the key parts of achieving long term goals using this system (for me, anyway!). Again these, can be separated out if you wish. Scholar Stats Here's a quick version of my Scholar Stats page - this has lines to track where the scholar got their PhD, their gender, ethnicity, nationality, security (e.g. do they have a permanent position?) and their career stage (both now and at the time of publication). |
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