Let's start with basic introductions.
Very soon I am going to become a part-time PhD student. There are a lot of PhD Students Blogs out
there, each offering their own unique perspectives
on what doing a PhD is like (I will put links up to more asap). After pondering what I had to offer I decided to
write (partly) on experiences of being a dyslexic PhD student. My reasoning was thus:
The effects of dyslexia vary widely and,
contrary to what some would think, they are not all bad (a discussion of this
is worthy of a post on its own). When thinking
about my future as an academic I consider being dyslexic one of the most
helpful and yet challenging aspects of my personality. I can't be the only dyslexic PhD student out
there or the only one there will ever be. So I hope writing about the ups and downs of my PhD
my experiences may prove of some use to other dyslexics in similar situations. I'd
also like to hear about others experiences. So maybe this blog can provide a place to
share those experiences...
I'd like to start off now by saying that
I am new to blogging and my writing skills are very much a work in progress. So
please, if you are reading this, bare with me! Also, I'm not going to just blog about my
experiences, as I hope to get a few
blogs out about psychology and research in general.
As I am about to start my PhD in just under a month (scary!) I've
found myself thinking more and more about what exactly is a PhD? On a basic
level it's a piece of research written up into a thesis. But from what I have read and heard it's much
more than that. It's an experience which
changes you and your life to the point that you are no longer the person who
started the PhD.
So, this is me when I go in. I wonder who I will come out?
