I had a “milestone meeting” with my supervisors last Friday, since I’ve been a PhD student for nearly a year now. We discussed progress and challenges so far, using Tove’s checklist. Here are the major points, with short conclusions in parentheses:

• competence and resources (we ask others when we need to)
• the project (problems with data collection and continued evolution of article plans)
• supervision (good so far, got tips for working more efficiently)
• duty work (not quite at 25% of my hours yet)
• practical considerations (all’s well)

We used quite a while discussing a revision of the plan for the articles I’ll be writing. The project is continually evolving, and the articles will likely be quite different than first imagined. For example, instead of one long article describing the development of all the measures that we’ll be using, we’ll divide it up into several shorter, more detailed articles about the individual measures.

I feel more comfortable with this, and felt so inspired that I thought and worked for most of the weekend. Today I wrote ALL DAY, detailing the steps taken in the development of the survey.

Phew! It’s good to get this all down on paper, even if it doesn’t eventually make it into an article.

Here I am with my wonderful supervisors! I have no idea how I got so lucky. 🙂