- Title
- Sitting with failure
- Creator
- Jamieson, Michelle
- Relation
- Humanity Vol. 7
- Publisher
- University of Newcastle/Macquarie University
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2016
- Description
- Last year, a student of mine asked if I would share some of my experiences of the PhD at the NewMac Postgraduate Humanities Symposium. Thinking back to my time as a student, I realised that among the most formative and character-building moments of the dissertation process were those that involved some form of failure. For me, the periods when the research and writing progressed smoothly didn’t stand out as much as points when things weren’t going to plan and the process felt out of my control. Failure is an important topic in the university context, especially for those new to the crafts of research and writing. However, it is rarely formally discussed as an important aspect of the research experience. This is because it is typically understood as being the opposite of, or an obstacle to, success.
- Subject
- failure; research experiance; Breaching boundaries; Humanity
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1466878
- Identifier
- uon:47687
- Identifier
- ISSN:2206-592X
- Rights
- NewMac Humanity Journal applies the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unreported Licence to all articles, with the principle that there should be no financial barriers to access to information. The Attribution-Noncommercial Licence https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/legalcode) allows people freely copy, distribute, remix, and build upon contributors’ work, provided it is not used to make a profit and the original authors and NewMac Humanity Journal are appropriately acknowledged. These conditions can be waived if author, as copyright holder, grants potential users explicit permission. Copyrighted material may be included in articles provided authors duly acknowledge source or provide proof of written permission for such use from the copyright holder.
- Language
- eng
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