As PhD students, we rarely have opportunities to brag about our research. This post is to indulge myself in my victory in the 3-minute presentation competition, and tell you why you all need to do something like this. I participated in the competition of the Faculty Christmas Conference this year, and competed with 12 other … Continue reading I won first price in the faculty 3-min presentation
Set a year planner
One of the advantage of a PhD, and perhaps also other academic jobs, is its flexibility. You do your own project and you can work at your own pace. But it doesn't mean you can completely ignore time and just work on whatever that comes up or simply on a whim. Instead, it is important … Continue reading Set a year planner
Things to remember and have when testing
I finished testing for my PhD yesterday! Hurray!!! In three years of PhD, I've done 9 studies: Year 1: Behavioural test on the modality switching costs of perceptual modalities and linguistic dimensions (48 participants); Year 2: EEG study on the modality switching costs (16 participants); Norming of 452 sensory adjective metaphors; Behavioural test on shallow … Continue reading Things to remember and have when testing
My paper was accepted by CogSci 2017 – How to cut a 54-page lab report down to 6 pages
(My paper "Can illness be bright? Metaphor comprehension depends on linguistic and embodied factors" has been accepted by the Cognitive Science Conference in July 2017 for a poster presentation. This post is to commemorate the first time I cut my 54-page lab report down to a 6-page manuscript. The task sounds more daunting than it … Continue reading My paper was accepted by CogSci 2017 – How to cut a 54-page lab report down to 6 pages
My marking routine
Marking... Groan... There are a million reasons to hate marking. It's time consuming. It's non-rewarding. You need to read the same material (and even give the same comment) for hundreds of times. You don't get to interact with the students and they get dehumanised, so it just seems like they are making the same mistakes … Continue reading My marking routine
Pei Q. Liu 