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title: Exactly half-way through my PhD timetable

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wordpress_url: https://www.martineve.com/?p=876
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- Literature
- Thomas Pynchon
- Conferences
- Personal
- Academia
- Philosophy
- Teaching
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- time management
- PhD
- Teaching
- Conferences
- Publications
- CV
comments:
- id: 6265
  author: Jeffrey Keefer
  author_email: jeffrey@silenceandvoice.com
  author_url: http://silenceandvoice.com/
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  content: ! "Excellent progress and a great list of accomplishments; keep it up!\r\n\r\nJeffrey"
- id: 6266
  author: Angela
  author_email: Angela.rand@gmail.com
  author_url: http://Www.mymindgap.com
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  content: Very inspiring! You have accomplished a lot. I think I will also set up
    a time table for myself. Thanks for posting this!
- id: 6267
  author: sava
  author_email: savasaheli@gmail.com
  author_url: http://www.savasavasava.com/
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  content: ! "well done! I am both envious and inspired. my journey has been a rocky
    one (and continues to be so), but I've enjoyed every bit and learned a lot. \r\n\r\nI'd
    love to be able to set a time for myself to finish, but that's not how I roll,
    yo. maybe I should try it out..."
- id: 6268
  author: Jennifer Jones
  author_email: caffeinebomb@gmail.com
  author_url: http://www.jennifermjones.net
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  content: ! "We started at the exact same time - which means I am going to have to
    pinch this meme tomorrow :-)\r\n\r\nGreat list of accomplishments - definitely
    puts the last 18 months in perspective (especially on the days when you feel like
    you haven't done very much, it all adds up!)"
- id: 6269
  author: Martin Paul Eve
  author_email: martin@martineve.com
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  content: Pinch away, looking forward to reading your (no doubt far more formidable)
    list!
- id: 6270
  author: Carly Tetley
  author_email: carly.tetley@btinternet.com
  author_url: http://virtual-doc.salford.ac.uk/cheetahphd
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  content: What a fantastic list, well done Martin. Some of the things you have achieved
    are things I would love to do, especially publishing articles and book chapters,
    and speaking at conferences, which are personal targets of mine. I hope the second
    half of your PhD is as productive, if not more so!
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<p>Today marks, by my calculations, day 548 of my PhD. I set myself a target to attempt to finish the thesis within three years (1096 days -- 2012 is a leap year) of the 1st of October, 2009; the length of full-time funding I receive from the Arts and Humanities Research Council. As a result, today marks the exact mid-point of that schedule.</p>
<p>I thought, therefore, I would give myself a motivational boost by listing how far along that trajectory I've come:</p>
<ul>
<li>I have written two thirds of my thesis consisting, so far, of two chapters of approximately 30,000 words each. These will, inevitably, need to be cut but I am hoping to arrive at a first draft by November this year.</li>
<li>I have had one journal article and one book chapter firmly accepted for publication. Both are scheduled to be published before the year is out.</li>
<li>I have two book chapters under consideration: one on Thomas Pynchon and terrorism and another on Open Access publishing and self-subversion within the academy.</li>
<li>I have had two book reviews published and a third firmly accepted and forthcoming.</li>
<li>I have been involved, or am involved, in the organization of four conferences.</li>
<li>I have spoken at three conferences and have two further appearances scheduled in June.</li>
<li>I have established a UK-based network for Pynchon scholars.</li>
<li>I have taught my first undergraduate course.</li>
<li>I am about to give my first undergraduate lecture on David Lynch's <i>Lost Highway</i>.</li>
<li>I have achieved the status of Associate of the Higher Education Academy.</li>
<li>I have taught workshops on the use of Open Access journal software for faculty and postgrads.</li>
<li>I am about to teach a workshop on the use of Twitter in research for faculty and postgrads.</li>
<li>I have established, alongside my peers, an Open Access postgraduate journal at my university.</li>
<li>I have undertaken peer review for the prominent literary journal <i>Textual Practice</i>.</li>
</ul>
<p>Cheers! Here's to the next 50%!</p>