Everyday doings of a psychology researcher – thoughts, challenges and everything in between
Yes, it’s here. After the long wait, the storm has started. Honestly speaking, I started writing a blog post last week, right before the onset of the Storm, and I could never finish it! So this week, thankfully to the end of my storm, is a new post – all[…]
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A curious phenomenon researchers go through is what I call ‘the Wait’. As a researcher you are expected to solve a million problems. You are usually on a go-go-go schedule. Every now and then though, there is a problem that you can not immediately solve. You can collect all the[…]
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So far I have focused on a researcher’s life. This new series of posts titled ‘researcher ramblings’, are my views and perspectives of my life as a researcher. This first post has demanded a lot of introspection! I was on a nice vacation last week! Through all this free time[…]
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I just finished my first round of testings and something happened in this study, that has never happened to me before – my participants were curious about my study and said they had ‘FUN’. Although they had to do multiple tasks, they only complained about one of them. In all[…]
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It’s that day of the week, when after taking a break, I needed to go back to the rut. Yes, it’s Moooonnnn…Thursday! Well, this time, its a Thursday. Yup, as a researcher, your Monday morning blues may happen at any point during the week. Allow me to elaborate a bit.[…]
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If you type ‘researcher’ in Google images, this is what you get. Sorry to let you down Google. It’s not so fancy, or so easy. This post is all about the roles of a researcher. My blog will clearly be biased to what I do, but some of these elements[…]
Read moreThe very first post, an entire post dedicated to the theme of this blog. Hi, I am a researcher, a scientist, a psychologist. Before I started my PhD here in Germany, I asked a number of people what a 3 year research project is like. Will I be able to[…]
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