Pat Thomson is Professor of Education in the School of Education, The University of Nottingham. Her research is centred primarily on how schools might change to be more engaging and meaningful for more children and young people. She has recently been investigating the arts, creativity and other kinds of experiential approaches in school and community settings, including galleries and museums. She is also interested in researcher education and the writing that scholars want to, and must, do.
She is currently Director of the Centre for Advanced Studies in the faculties of Arts and Social Sciences.
She is a member of the Routledge Education Arena Expert Panel.
Listen to an Education Arena interview with Pat about digital scholarship and academic writing.
Editorial interview:@ Educational Action Research Journal
Pod cast with Ben from LitreviewHQ
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Many thanks for ‘Helping doctoral students write’! this book keeps my feet firmly on the ground with my head turned upwards! as a dyslexic the use of metaphor helps me visualize who is sitting around my ‘table’ and whether they are seated in the right place for conversation with the others i have invited. I would also go as far as to try to guess what they might say to each other! really helps the critical thinking process….. thanks.
I enjoyed your blog, Pat – someone tweeted about it the other day. And someone else has asked if you’re on Twitter yourself?
I just decided I probably ought to so will statrt with next blog..@ThomsonPat
Hi Pat, great blog (found you through the @thesiswhisperer). Can’t find a subscribe button for you though – any chance you could point it out to me?
Many thanks
There’s a very little follow on the top left hand corner I think. Must see if I can make it bigger!!
I think the follow button on the top left hand corner is for people with a WordPress account. You can add a widget to your side bar for people to follow by email alert. I would definitely subscribe to it!
Great blog, Pat! Thanks for putting all of this together. I have also a keen interest in writing, particularly scientific writing, and have recently started a blog myself to provide resources to PhD students and fellow academics. I wonder whether you might want to include it under your Doctoral Education page. The link is here: http://www.marialuisaaliotta.com
Thanks!
Yes will do that… Planning an overhaul of the pages soon.
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Dear Pat
Many thanks, this blog is a fantastic resource. Those recent posts in thesis writing are gold for PhD students.
Best Regards
Jeff McGee
Dear Pat
Love your blog. I am not sure when or how you get the time to be such a busy writer, but I regularly look forward to each and every blog. cheers rochelle, Adelaide.
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Hi Pat,
Just wanted to say I’m really glad I stumbled upon your blog – as I’m about to begin a PhD in October, I can see there is a wealth of valuable resource for me to plunder beforehand in order to be fully prepared / warned!
Thanks,
Sian
By the way, the link to this blog is incorrect on http://www.psypress.com/books/details/9780415823494/
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