Busy Busy Busy

Too busy to blog?! Technically yes, but I will anyway!

So everything has been flipped, turned upside down and instead of finishing off the draft of the paper I'm writing with my supervisor, I am making lists of people. Not in a Santa fashion, I have no interest in naughty or nice. My interests lie in who do I want to talk to about scale, or more importantly, what contacts do I have that I can use to make people talk to me about scale!!

A massive part of my PhD is analyzing what people in the planning/policy/environmental management/ecosystem service science world think about 'scale'. I used to think I knew what 'scale' meant, but unfortunately that is no longer the case. I am also interested in level of communication between all of these people. Communication has a massive part in scale analysis...the more people talk to each other, and discuss matters, the more likely it is that the scale of the policy will match the scale of the science.

I am currently crafting a small questionnaire that I want to send out before I attempt to get one on one time with some incredibly busy people. The plan is that the initial questionnaire will test the waters, and give me an idea of what people think of 'scale' in the ecosystem services planning and policy world. Hopefully the responses will cement what it is I actually want to know, and what questions I need to ask in order to know!

Here's hoping anyway!!

15 DAYS

Countdown!!

There are 15 days until Christmas! Which is really exciting, yet terrifying, as I am to have a draft of the paper I'm working on ready for then. And if we actually look at days I can work we have to extract  a few! Virginia's Birthday fun (3 days worth), A family luncheon, Christmas Eve (my step - dads birthday, poor lad), and Christmas day take my actual working days down to 9 days...and that is including working weekends and through hang overs!

 

All of our decorations are home made, recycled or from charity shops!

It is nice working from home...surrounded by all of our Christmas decorations! But it is also a constant reminder of the lack of time I have. I am confident all will be well though, it is the festive season, all HAS to be well!! Right...back to work!!