1. Thesis feels like wading through mud at the moment.
2. Why did I think drawing on Foucauldian ideas was sensible?
3. Looking forward to dinner and a catch up with some friends tomorrow

I'm not sure I'm capable of forming more thoughts than that today. Two thoughts free to a good home!

Hi oldlady

I've got a copy - if you PM me your email address I'll send it over to you.

Hi Toria The teaching we've had on dying and bereavement drew on some ideas from narrative approaches and there were two papers that I found particularly useful: Lorraine Hedtke - Stories of Living and Dying - http://rememberingpractices.com/pdf/Stories%20of%20Living%20and%20Dying.pdf Michael White ...

Nine days until holiday

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1. Oh transcribing, you are weirdly enjoyable and incredibly frustrating at the same time.
2. How am I just about to start the final year of the doctorate?!
3. So not prepared.
4. Looking forward to starting my next placement.
5. More imminently, I'm looking forward to my plans this evening, yay!

To add to that, people can also have fluctuating capacity, and this might change over the timescale of your research.

Hi MindfulPsych One of the key principles of the Mental Capacity Act is to assume that a person has capacity unless there is evidence to 'prove' otherwise. If you do think that some of the people you might be inviting to take part in the research may lack capacity to consent to taking part, there is...

Wycheim - maybe it would be happy if you really, really didn't like Raj? But there might have been a bit of a misread, yeah.

I've been having fun with this on Facebook today and thought I would share it here to see what people come up with.

The aim is pretty simple: write the happiest story you can think of using only four words.

To start us off, here is one my friend wrote for me...

And there was cake.

Hi moony I can't speak for last year, but in 2013 they let us know by letter. Sorry if that's not the answer you were hoping for. It's possible they might have changed this though. I know that in 2013 the clearing house also updated outcomes fairly quickly, so that might be a possible way of finding...

I use this one: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Olympus-VN-712PC-Recorder-2GB-Battery/dp/B006YBA054/ref=sr_1_1?s=officeproduct&ie=UTF8&qid=1427198472&sr=1-1&keywords=Olympus+VN-712PC+Voice+Recorder Though it didn't cost me anywhere near as much as that when I bought it last year. Hopefully t...

Hi Kelly Congratulations on your place! I'm afraid I don't know anything about the Masters course, but I think it has been discussed on the forum before - a quick search might give you some more information! I did go to Warwick for my undergrad though, so thought I'd say something about possible pla...

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Surrey or Leeds? I don't know what the ratios for them are like though.