Skip to content

Frances Ryan, PhD

Human Information Behaviour • Online Information • Social Media Use • Personal Reputation & Identity • Social Informatics

  • About
    • Meet Frances
    • Curriculum Vitae
    • The Small Print
    • Copyright
  • My Research
    • My PhD
    • Research participants wanted!
  • Publications & Presentations
  • Curriculum Vitae
  • Contact

Tag: work-life balance

My PhD Studies Writing

Thesis season: September update

1 September 201830 May 2021 Frances Ryan

As thesis season continues, I am starting to feel more and more confident that I will manage to complete my thesis without (too terribly much) stress. And as September begins, I am excited (and nervous) about the next 61 days.

Keep reading
My PhD Studies Writing

Thesis season: August update

2 August 201830 May 2021 Frances Ryan

With August now upon us, I am aware that only three months are remaining for “thesis season”. And that is a scary realisation when I stop to think about how much work I have yet to do. And so, the

Keep reading
My PhD Studies Writing

Thesis season

1 July 201830 May 2021 Frances Ryan

Wow! It is the 1st of July already. And that means that my PhD thesis is due in just four months. Yikes! Of course, that means that the next four months will be all about my thesis. Thesis, thesis, thesis.

Keep reading
Miscellany My PhD Studies Writing

PhDing on holidays

2 June 201830 May 2021 Frances Ryan

I am on my holidays in America just now, and I’ve brought my PhD along for the journey. It is something that I’ve done with great hesitation because I know that I won’t get as much done as I’ve told myself

Keep reading
My PhD Studies

Working out where to work

3 February 201423 May 2021 Frances Ryan

Last month, I shared with you my struggles for finding just the right place to work. I was finding it difficult to figure out how to manage my reading without being distracted – and without finding myself squirrelled away at home all

Keep reading
My PhD Studies

Reading habits

9 January 201423 May 2021 Frances Ryan

I’m struggling a bit with my reading habits just now and have decided to spend the rest of January getting a handle on them. As you may know, the first year of a PhD is filled with reading. Lots and

Keep reading

Meet Frances (She/Her)

I am Frances Ryan (She/Her), a university lecturer based in Central Scotland. My research focuses on information sharing and use in online environments, especially as it relates to everyday life and “lived” or real-world experiences.

This blog is about my academic life including research and teaching activities, conferences and events, publications, milestones of note, and more.

Read more about my background here.

Subscribe

Sign up to receive notifications of new posts by email. (Read my privacy policy here.)

Search the archives

Recent posts

  • Published: Ontologies Applied to Archival Records: A Preliminary Proposal for Information Retrieval
  • Invited talk: Social media as a power for good
  • Librarians as Proxies: An exploratory study on the digital proxy practices of librarians
  • Published in Information Research: Social Media by Proxy: how older adults work within their ‘social networks’ to engage with social media
  • Research survey: Managing PKD with e-Health tools and online information sources
My Tweets

Archives

Copyright © Frances Ryan.
Proudly powered by WordPress | Theme: Fairy by Candid Themes.