Interviewing Skills

Last week Unisa held a research innovation week and on Friday there was a session called 'People Behind the Papers' which is like a sit in interview with people that have published. In Friday's session  Dr Desmond Painter, from Stellenbosch, interviewed  Dr Puleng Segalo, from Unisa. It was such an inspiring interview to watch. Puleng has been on an amazing academic journey so far and I can only hope to have such a cool academic career :)

Speaking about Desmond Painter, he facilitated an Interview Skills workshop with the MARC group on Wednesday and Thursday  He is pretty amazing. So insightful and knowledgeable, but then again, all the lecturers and professors we've had are :)

Quant Data Analysis

Two day stats workshop >.< oi!!

Day 1: Research design. Not so bad. I went through the manual so I'm good.

Day 2: Data Analysis. Oi! Now the toughness begins. But the facilitator keeps saying it will make more  
           sense when we do the prac next week. Lets hope so buddy

Online Research Tools

The most important thing we learned today was: "Just because you pay for it, doesn't mean its better".
So here are a few open source sites to make use of. Happy researching :)

• 'R' Statistics - sorta like SPSS, but better supposedly lol
• Ubuntu - free operating system download
• filehippo.com
• Prezi.com - really cool "powerpoint-like" site. I love this one
• Coding Analysis Toolkit - for qual data analysis
• Mendeley
• SciPlore knowledge and discovery

A perfect illustration of the first two weeks of the MA(RC) program lol