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Enhancing PhD Research with PebblePad: A Student’s Experience

As a part-time PhD student at Aston University and a full-time Research Executive, I have independently utilized PebblePad to enhance my research experience. This tool aids in recording reflections, meeting notes, and referencing resources, creating a comprehensive repository for my work. I appreciate its capability to facilitate dialogue among supervisors through feedback-sharing. The visual representation of my research journey and the flexibility it offers for remote studies make PebblePad invaluable. While it reduces paperwork and organizes my thoughts, I remain cautious about security and internet access.

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Enhancing PhD Research with PebblePad: A Student’s Experience

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  1. PebblePad:The research student perspective Lucy Cave l.m.cave@aston.ac.uk

  2. My use of PebblePad • Part-time PhD in Pedagogical Research and full-time job as a Research Executive at Aston University • Self-taught and independent use of PebblePad • PebblePad is a helpful tool for recording my thoughts, reflections and research notes • PebblePad serves as a repository for useful links in my research area

  3. 62 assets

  4. Stage one: initial use of PebblePad • Reflective journal – used as and when I could find the time, provides a chronology of my thoughts for the PhD

  5. Stage two: recording meetings, events and recording research notes • Used as a medium for recording my notes and action points from supervisory meetings • References and research notes noted, used in combination with EndNote

  6. Stage three: aggregating my assets • Creating a blog to document the process of developing the PhD research design

  7. Stage four: uploading and sharing documents • Useful for documenting feedback from supervisory team

  8. The benefits of sharing assets • Feedback – two supervisors will often have different opinions, therefore PebblePad provides a dialogue and summary of their comments • Time between supervisions is used effectively • Interim meetings are not always possible, but both supervisors can be involved through PebblePad comments facility

  9. Visual representation of research activity • Stand alone ‘thoughts’ need to be tied together to form a webfolio • Research-intensive months over the summer, due to reduced activity in the University (‘day job’)

  10. Overall benefits and limitations • Particularly useful when working remotely • Easy to ‘dip in and out’ as a part-time student • Serves as a repository for my research notes and useful links • Provides a chronology of my thought processes and development of the research • Ideal for sharing my work with a team of supervisors • Reduces paperwork • Concerns over security • Need to have access to the internet

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