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Charlotte Walker @charlottewalker.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

It's really counterproductive to making progress towards the rehabilitation of ex-offenders

Charlotte Walker @charlottewalker.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Somebody suggested applying for a small pot of money to fund a preparatory phase before applying for the main grant/fellowship but how do you ensure you can line those up back to back?

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Charlotte Walker @charlottewalker.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

There's no chance of it spreading to the main house?

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Charlotte Walker @charlottewalker.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

I always feel that choosing what to buy and eat and making the food is my responsibility even when Tom offers to help

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Charlotte Walker @charlottewalker.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Yeah, you're probably right. I also often think of giving tissues to people who are sniffing a lot on public transport

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Tom Zimbardo @tommostlyzen.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

The vote to continue debating the Assisted Dying bill has just passed. It will go to a committee and report stage, and then to the House of Lords. It’s a brave new world we’re living in. We will sometimes have to assess mental capacity of terminal people to decide if they want an assisted death

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Charlotte Walker @charlottewalker.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Haigh received a conditional discharge - the court found that her offending was not of sufficient seriousness to even warrant a fine. Do we punish people forever for such minor offending? This approach seems completely at odds with bringing in Lord Timpson and Prison and Probation minister 3/3

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Charlotte Walker @charlottewalker.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Should they all be barred from high office? Do people deserve second chances? There is a clear difference if someone commits an offence that is related to their current work (say, breaking laws on Covid while in office...) but past convictions are a different matter 2/3

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Charlotte Walker @charlottewalker.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

My tuppence on Louise Haigh. Speaking as someone who has worked in the probation service and academic criminology, we should be encouraging people with criminal convictions to declare these and seek work. You may not know that 1:3 men in the UK has a past conviction 1/3

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Charlotte Walker @charlottewalker.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Curses! Miss C is curled up on my winter coat fast asleep and liberally shedding hairs

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

One of the reasons the university sector has come so spectacularly off the rails is the fact it's so unfriendly to family life, people with caring responsibilities and parents. The attitude is often: 'Not working 24/7? You're not fully committed!' www.science.org/content/arti...

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Charlotte Walker @charlottewalker.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Well done for getting out. How do you feel now?

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Charlotte Walker @charlottewalker.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

I have genuinely considered bulk buying really cheap bluetooth headphones and handing them out on trains, in airports, in cafes, etc. Obviously this isn't a very environmentally sound proposal

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Dr. Jen Gunter @drjengunter.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

This trip I have asked 3 people playing movies/news/talking on the phone without headphones to wear headphones. Each one seemed genuinely shocked that their noise was disturbing someone. Each one turned their volume off or put on headphones. Small victories in civility.

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Charlotte Walker @charlottewalker.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

#StopOxevision There is insufficient evidence of benefit and there are conflicts of interest in terms of who is funding what research exists. Listen to users/survivors

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Charlotte Walker @charlottewalker.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

But "the system" requires that you identify research priorities and questions *before* you are given the funding to go into the field. In light of this, I don't feel I can put my hand on my heart and say that my research proposal is true PAR - action research, more probably #AcademicSky #PhDSky

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Charlotte Walker @charlottewalker.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

So far this training in participatory action research (PAR) has largely made me think: where within academia is the time/space/funding to do this properly? Really one needs to embed oneself within the target community to allow that community to identify research priorities and questions. 1/2

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Charlotte Walker @charlottewalker.bsky.social · 25/03/2024

Had a very productive morning thinking about my arts-based methods and how I might be able to still use them if I can’t be in the same room as interview participants. It involves posting stuff out, but that’s still not as expensive as me travelling to England so it’s doable #PhDSky

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Charlotte Walker @charlottewalker.bsky.social · 22/03/2024

At 2pm I will join an online session for reviewing my #kanban board and using it to plan for the weeks and months ahead. This will be especially useful today as I came away from supervision with a new list of tasks! #phdSky

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Charlotte Walker @charlottewalker.bsky.social · 19/03/2024

It’s a little tough round the edges technically, but I’ve just published my first ever podcast on the topic of borderline personality disorder! Catch it on Spotify open.spotify.com/episode/2IwU... #PhDSky

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Charlotte Walker @charlottewalker.bsky.social · 14/03/2024

So I finally finished the suite of documents for my ethics application and sent them to my supervisors. I feel sorry for them because the email has 8 attachments to read! That’s the first draft of a big piece of work under my belt. I’m taking a break now with a big bowl of popcorn #reward #PhDSky

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Charlotte Walker @charlottewalker.bsky.social · 13/03/2024

I had a productive day - I think I can get all my ethics application docs sent out to my supervisors by close of play Friday. So. Much. Paperwork. I would actually prefer a sort of mini viva where I got to present my research plans and be questioned about them #phdSky

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Charlotte Walker @charlottewalker.bsky.social · 12/03/2024

I got a lot done on my systematic review write up today. I have literally no idea what I am doing, so I’m just trying to methodically address the research questions and draw conclusions. I’ll send a draft to my supervisor soon and brace for criticism #PhDSky

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The Mental Elf @thementalelf.bsky.social · 16/02/2024

From subject to cause: can patients’ circumstances predict the use of coercion in psychiatric hospital admissions? www.nationalelfservice.net?p=188446 Brilliant lived experience blog by Nima Cas Hunt from First Do No Harm exploring what underpins #coercion in mental health.

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Can patients’ circumstances predict the use of coercion in psychiatric hospital admissions?

Predict coercion - Nima Cas Hunt explores a recent study, which tries to predict coercion during the course of psychiatric hospitalisations.

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Charlotte Walker @charlottewalker.bsky.social · 16/02/2024

My abstract for a poster presentation at this year’s main “personality disorder” conference has been accepted! This will be my first conference of my PhD outside of my own university. My department has conference poster printing facilities, I need to find out how to access them 🤔 #PhDSky

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Charlotte Walker @charlottewalker.bsky.social · 15/02/2024

Supervision was really good. I now have a clearer idea of what to do to set up some focus groups and how to proceed with writing up my systematic literature review. I can’t really crack on with those until March as I’m on holiday for the next 2 weeks, hooray! #PhDSky

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Charlotte Walker @charlottewalker.bsky.social · 13/02/2024

I had such a lovely morning working up a focus group schedule and mapping it to my research questions. I really enjoy this sort of thing #PhDSky

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Charlotte Walker @charlottewalker.bsky.social · 08/02/2024

Boo I’ve got a bug, a nasty rattly cough, a sore throat and an achy body. Thankfully the only thing I absolutely have to do today is sit in online training on an interesting topic - positionality and reflexivity in research, a pet interest of mine #phdSky

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Charlotte Walker @charlottewalker.bsky.social · 07/02/2024

Third and final part of training in cognitive errors in questionnaires and possible solutions starts at 12.30 so another early lunch. I am absolutely determined that my quantitative data collection method will be of high quality #PhDSky

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Charlotte Walker @charlottewalker.bsky.social · 30/01/2024

One more full text paper to screen for inclusion in my literature review! Then it’s on to data extraction which is a mystery to me, so I’ll have to watch a webinar from the software company to find out what the software will do next #PhDSky

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Charlotte Walker @charlottewalker.bsky.social · 26/01/2024

Depends how many she was hoping to get, I guess! I have one papers going back to 1992

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Charlotte Walker @charlottewalker.bsky.social · 26/01/2024

I made great progress on my review today, I read and made notes on three papers. 11 more to go! #PhDSky

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Charlotte Walker @charlottewalker.bsky.social · 25/01/2024

Good morning! More training today, I’m learning so much about survey design and what to avoid. I’m sure we’ve all seen questionnaires that are illogical, so badly designed or just downright annoying that you give up. I don’t want that for my survey! #PhDSky

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Charlotte Walker @charlottewalker.bsky.social · 22/01/2024

Making a start on full text reading of the articles I’ve identified for my systematic review. It’s taken me months to get to this point, when I started my PhD I thought I could probably be reading articles by November, ha. Just finalising my search terms took weeks! #PhDSky

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Charlotte Walker @charlottewalker.bsky.social · 17/01/2024

More training this afternoon, this time on questionnaire design. I had to design several questionnaires in my last job but never really got taught good practice, so this should be helpful. Happy Wednesday, all!

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Charlotte Walker @charlottewalker.bsky.social · 17/01/2024

I’ve just spent two days learning all about institutional ethnography, which is a fascinating feminist methodology based on the work of sociologist Dorothy Smith. I’m keen to use the method in practice! #PhDSky

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Charlotte Walker @charlottewalker.bsky.social · 09/01/2024

Here is a link to a paper on which I am a coauthor which was published yesterday on prescribing and deprescribing of drugs which can cause dependence or withdrawal (e.g. ADs, benzos): link.springer.com/content/pdf/... The research incorporates patient and doctor views of good practice #PhDSky

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Charlotte Walker @charlottewalker.bsky.social · 09/01/2024

Just filled in my ethics screening again after it disappeared into the ether last time. It looks more promising as it actually gave me a link to send to my supervisor. This week me is thanking last week me for saving the contents of the text boxes in a word doc! #PhDSky

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Charlotte Walker @charlottewalker.bsky.social · 08/01/2024

After this week I have some exciting #PhD-related training coming up every week for the next 5 weeks, starting with two afternoons on questionnaire design 😍 I love training where I am actively encouraged to sit around and talk about research issues for hours! #phdsky

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