NDM9 - brief report
Another testament, or perhaps reinforcement, for attending conferences was strongly felt during the International NDM9 at Covent Garden (23 – 26 June). With my PhD inching towards the end of the second year, the benefits of attending and presenting a paper at the conference has multiple benefits.
One such benefit is motivation. Knowing other people are in the same boat in many dimensions of work makes up for the hardship that is felt so far. People experience difficulty to keep on moving, knowing how much ‘stuff’ is enough, and not being sure whether they are actually measuring decision making process. One resounding theme from the Doctoral Consortium part of the Conference was that the PhD student him/herself should learn to own the PhD. Being a ‘doctor’ implies being able to formulate, execute, analyse, disseminate, and defend one’s thesis. So, while others’ opinions do matters, one’s own opinion matters more.
Few new words (or their applications) thing that I learned at the conference are externalisation (the way businesses are forcing the users to do the works for them, like Ryan Air making their customers check-in online) and pragmatic-vs-epistemic effect of interaction. The latter will be included in the paper that I’m writing with regard to the introduction of Electronic Patient Records at the Ambulance Services.
One such benefit is motivation. Knowing other people are in the same boat in many dimensions of work makes up for the hardship that is felt so far. People experience difficulty to keep on moving, knowing how much ‘stuff’ is enough, and not being sure whether they are actually measuring decision making process. One resounding theme from the Doctoral Consortium part of the Conference was that the PhD student him/herself should learn to own the PhD. Being a ‘doctor’ implies being able to formulate, execute, analyse, disseminate, and defend one’s thesis. So, while others’ opinions do matters, one’s own opinion matters more.
Few new words (or their applications) thing that I learned at the conference are externalisation (the way businesses are forcing the users to do the works for them, like Ryan Air making their customers check-in online) and pragmatic-vs-epistemic effect of interaction. The latter will be included in the paper that I’m writing with regard to the introduction of Electronic Patient Records at the Ambulance Services.
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