#master's thesis

[howdoyouexpressloneliness]

How do you express loneliness?

Hi everyone,

I’m currently writing my master’s thesis in social work on the topic of loneliness. After already having written a bachelor's thesis on loneliness during the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown using a questionnaire as a research tool, my thesis supervisor and I came to the conclusion to stay on the same topic but handle it with a different approach.

Everyone has had experiences with loneliness in their life. No matter if they felt lonely themselves or heard about it, seen it on TV or read about it. Within my master’s thesis I want to explore the different ways people express loneliness. The research question of the master's thesis is therefore: "How do you express loneliness?".

My idea was to base the research on submissions. Within the submissions everything is possible, no matter if it is textual or written, artistic, videos, songs, photography or anything else that might help contextualize loneliness. (Examples could be: poems, texts, essays, haikus, lyrics, paintings, drawings, collages, videos, songs, photos etc.)

Please send your submissions to the Google Forms page created for this purpose: https://forms.gle/dF8xYQYz51ncUwSp9

Or to the e-mail: expressingloneliness@gmail.com

(If you’re German or can speak the language, please make sure to submit your work in German because that is the language the master’s thesis will be written in. But I am grateful for any and all submissions)

All submissions are confidential and will only be used for the purpose of research for my master’s thesis. All submissions are anonymous and any information to any personal information will be anonymized.

If you have any questions or suggestions please make sure to reach out to me! You can find me at the e-mail address: expressingloneliness@gmail.com or @howdoyouexpressloneliness on tumblr.com.

Thank you for participating!

[teratophiliologist]

I've once again been placed in academic prison!!! My committee chairman has decided, without consulting me, that my thesis will be put on a 6-month embargo. Basically I'm unable to share any of my results for 6 months following the university readers' approval.

On the bright side, I'm going to use this time to my advantage by seeing if I can break my thesis into multiple articles and get them published in academic journals.

Also, @monstrousdesirestudy and I are already hard at work on a follow-up study, so stay tuned for more updates.

[academicwitchversion]

𝓦𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓘 𝓲𝓶𝓪𝓰𝓲𝓷𝓮 𝓶𝔂𝓼𝓮𝓵𝓯 𝓵𝓸𝓸𝓴𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓵𝓲𝓴𝓮 𝔀𝓱𝓲𝓵𝓮 𝓘'𝓶 𝓭𝓸𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓻𝓮𝓼𝓮𝓪𝓻𝓬𝓱 𝓪𝓫𝓸𝓾𝓽 𝔀𝓲𝓽𝓬𝓱𝓬𝓻𝓪𝓯𝓽 🌙

[mrs-sharp]

Actual footage of me writing fanfiction/creative writing:

Also me - writing anything academic:

[salvadorbonaparte]

Thesis Finished 🎉

[lawstudentreads]

23.08.2024 | Friday

I meant to begin my journey into thesis researching earlier in the week, but as expected, the transition from summer vacation to work mindset hasn't been the easiest.

With that being said, I met with my supervisor last month to better determine my thesis research topic, plus some guidelines on how to start. It was a very helpful meeting, and thus today I began researching the aspects we mentioned. Next up I will have to look into case-law, which is probably my favorite part of law research.

I ended up deciding to do research on copyright duration, so that's what I shall focus on for the next months as I go through this journey. I'm feeling some insecurities on whether I'll be able to write a good master thesis, but I'm excited to be able to explore Copyright Law on a deeper level with this--it's my favorite kind of law.

Featured in the photos are the music that kept me company during my work session, as well as my current read, Malice by John Gwynne. I'm still only 84 pages into it, which isn't a lot for a 600+ page book, but I’m enjoying my time with it. Adult Fantasy is truly something else.

[academicelephant]

Ugh, I got no schoolwork done today whatsoever... I meant to work on my Master's thesis since the interim deadline for the research plan is next monday but after an hour I just gave up and the rest of the day I did anything but what was supposed to 😓

[panicpink]

Can you spare 8 minutes of your time?

I am a master's in management student in Portugal and I need people 18-30 yo that live in the UK to answer my thesis' survey ( I am working with a portuguese beverage brand that wants to expand to the UK)

I am quite desperate because I do not know many people from the UK. So, if you fit in the description above (18-30yo, living in the UK), would you mind helping me by filling out my survey? It only takes 8 minutes!

Here is the link: https://www.tumblr.com/communities/studyblr/post/765697752463228928/qualtrics-survey-uk-consumer-insights-on

Also, if you do not fit the sample requirements, I kindly request that you share the survey with acquaintances that fit.

Sorry for the incovenience, but I have till the end of this week to get answers and, so far, I have too few (below the minimum number).

Thank you! 🥹

[gabrielsbubblegumbitch]

I think I need someone who would genuinely tell me that they think I'm too dumb and unskilled to write my Master's and I will never do it. Let me tell you my friends if this kind of person happen to exist and I'd be convinced they don't do it to motivate me but honestly hope for my failure, I would finish this shit in two weeks.

[faeriefully]

for research: Are there any books you know of that involve siblings of children with chronic illnesses?

[rapha-reads]

Unrelated things I manage to evoke in my thesis on Beauty and the Beast, modern fairy tales and self-love (titled From Folktales to Fantasy: Beauty and the Beast, Contemporary Rewritings and Self-Love), a list (caution, long post ahead):

Hayao Miyazaki's environmental tales.

In contemporary rewritings of folktales and fairy tales, these revised critical versions often follow the major issues of the time: the feminist tales of Angela Carter or Margaret Atwood of the 20th century are amongst the prime examples, but one may just as well cite Hayao Miyazaki's contemporary environmentalist and anti-war stories.

Arthurian Legends:

Nonetheless, ages change, people’s priorities change, ways of life change, and with these evolutions, heroes and stories mutate too. They evolve, but they’re never forgotten. King Arthur and Merlin are still household names, even after a millennia and a half of legends; their stories followed the times and took on new shapes to keep on meaning something to their audience.

Le Roman de Renart and "Le hérisson, le chacal et le lion" (the hedgehog, the jackal and the lion, a traditional animal tale in North Africa, Tamazight in origin):

Animal Tales are the first chapter of the ATU Index, going from ATU 1 to 299, in which the characters are talking animals usually interacting between themselves (think Roman de Renart or the tales of the hedgehog, jackal and lion in North Africa).

*On the subject of the hedgehog, the jackal and the lion, I really recommend looking up their stories. If you like cartoonish stories of the clever fox and the stupid wolf, Tom and Jerry style, you will like them.

Narnia (actually referenced a few times, the thesis does talk about Fantasy, but CS Lewis is quoted only the once):

In the dedication of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, C. S. Lewis wrote “some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again”. As the reader ages and grows up, the taste for stories also evolves.

Neil Gaiman (completely out of the blue, I just wanted to quote him at least once):

the classic tale of Beauty and the Beast with all its space left to creation easily lends itself to the new scene. “Fairy tales”, Neil Gaiman writes in the introduction to Fragile Things, “are transmissible. You can catch them, or be infected by them.” They are, in their most basic form, in the bare bones of their structures, the “currency we share with those who walked the world before ever we were here.”

Doctor Who (I will find a why to quote DW in any circumstances, just watch me):

“The Universe generally fails to be a fairy tale. And that’s where we [the helpers and the leaders, heroes, doctors, teachers] come in.” That’s where writers and storytellers come in. Crafting stories is recreating a kinder, more merciful and fair world, where good wins, evil is defeated, love is everything, good deeds are rewarded and bad actions punished, justice is served and honour is upheld.

Edith Nesbit's The Story of the Amulet + more Narnia, because I will also find a way to talk about the Pevensies:

Harper spends six weeks with Rhen and Grey, and when she comes back to DC, six weeks have also passed. This is different from most Fantasy novels which actions happens in both Primary and Secondary Worlds; from Edith Nesbith’s The Story of the Amulet (1906) to Lewis’ Narnia, the passage of time in the Secondary World never matches the passage of time in the Primary World—the Pevensies spent close to two decades being kings and queens of Narnia, and yet at their return in England, not a single second had gone by, and they were back to being children again, a fact that I have always found cruel; they were adults, competent and regal, soldiers, scholars and diplomats, and then they were back to being children, powerless and ordinary.

Yet another Narnia quote - in my defence, I use Tolkien's On Fairy Stories as one of my major reference, so I had to give some room to Lewis too - + me being very French:

C.S. Lewis does write that “adventures are never fun while you're having them” (The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Narnia book 5), but après la pluie le beau temps—storms never last forever, and the adventure always ends. That is what Fantasy tells the reader: you will go through hard times, but there will always be joy to find after the sadness.

MeToo, Greta and Malala (I swear it makes sense):

Belle just wants to be left alone with her wood-carving tools. What introvert passionate about their hobby doesn’t understand that? Lucie wants revenge on the man who hurt her; that is the whole point of the MeToo movement. Nyx wants to save her people and is ready to sacrifice herself for the cause; real life heroines fighting for their ideals are the idols of today (Greta Thunberg, Malala Yousafzai…). Harper represents the everyday life of millions of poor, disabled people, not only in the USA, but across the world. Beast wants to be loved; don’t we all?

*I actually really love that one tiny paragraph.

The "we live in a society meme" (aka the beginning of the descent into madness of the writer):

In meme terms: “we live in a society”. And that society can be crushing, draining, destroying. How then does one uphold one’s sense of self and worth when everything conspires to ruin and empty one’s heart and mind? Even though the meme is originally absurd, it quickly became a satire of the world in which we live now, where there is no place nor time to slow down, to just breathe, to take care of others, to take care of one’s self, because there is always a bill to pay, a meeting to run to, a deadline looming close, a train to catch.

Queerness (by the way if you guys know any queer retellings of B&tB please send them my way):

Depending on one’s level of ease and comfort, the co-existing inside the community requires more or less efforts and concessions to one’s authentic identity and tastes. Consider, for example, the way homosexuality and any form of queerness have been and are still viewed in many parts of the world throughout time: the main history of the queer community is to hide away an authentic, personal part of who they are in order to stay safe within a larger community that discriminate against expressions of queerness.

The "mortifying ordeal of being known" meme (sos, the writer has lost the plot):

By agreeing to play the game and follow the rules, no matter how adverse to one’s authentic nature, we tacitly agree to be seen. There is another meme, that first appeared in an essay for The New York Times in 2013: “the mortifying ordeal of being known”. The full quote goes like this: “If we want the rewards of being loved we have to submit to the mortifying ordeal of being known.” In essence, trying to hide and conceal one’s authentic self is to deprive yourself from being truly known and loved for who you are; it is to take the risk of being only superficially known and loved for who you pretend to be, the role you play, the mask you wear.

The "I can fix him" meme (what the heck is the writer talking about):

Here is a third meme, much more recent, born on Twitter in 2019: “I can fix him. I can make him better.” While the urge to help your neighbour is perfectly honourable, it can sometimes take on a sort of narcissistic veneer: it becomes no longer about the person you want to help, but about the power you can exercise over that person by turning them into the exact image of them you have, no matter if this image coincide with their authentic self or not.

Shakespeare (hell yeah, finally! Okay, it's not R&J, but still; who am I if I am not rambling about Willy):

The self is not a stable entity. It evolves, adapts to its circumstances, to the situation at the hand. “All the world's a stage and all the men and women are merely players” (As You Like It, 2. 7. 139), Shakespeare was already writing at the end of the 16th century. The deal has not changed. Everyone keeps playing a part that they believe is what society demands of them.

And finally... Kintsugi. Just for fun:

The Japanese art of kintsugi consists of repairing broken pottery with gold, letting the breaks and the defects visible, thus making them part of the history of the piece. Being broken therefore is not a sign of weakness; it becomes another sort of beauty, a sign of strength. The Beast’s curse breaks him down to his base nature, but ending the curse does not mean that the breaks disappear.

[akaessi]

I have such ridiculous phd thesis ideas. it's not even funny

[turbulent-studies]

Hi, i gotta be accountable somewhere with my mad dash of a MA thesis writing. It needs some serious tlc to be ready in time.

This is a studyblr sideblog.

Life is chaotic, and so is academia (in my case).

The header is a desperate plea for help that i tell myself (it’s from pinterest). The pfp was made by me.

My posts are tagged with #turbulence

[academicwitchversion]

[attack-on-tbr]

It is week 4 of thesis writing. So far I have discovered that I love the Hamilton soundtrack and raccoon memes. Very little writing has happened.

[crankysapphic]

I GAVE MY BLOOD SWEAT AND TEARS FOR THIS