Thursday, 2 December 2010

Go multidisciplinary PhD, young man!

About a month ago I started consulting a brilliant woman about refining my PhD research thinking.  She has come through the hard way, with a doctorate in the medical field, and pretty quickly concluded that I was at the inductive/expansive/complexity/holistic/integrative end of the scientific research conundrum and should be looking to do something across disciplines.

Yes indeed.

She also quickly concluded that my original research idea wasn't well-formed. Fair point.

So it's back to the drawing board.  Better to start of as right as possible than to get half-way through and find out it's wrong-headed.