I’m home! I’m home! I’m home!!! Not for holiday, but for my dissertation!!!
Though, it can still be a holiday if you want to. It’s time to catch up with friends at home and use your network to help find participants. 😀
To me, one of the interesting part of a research is to choose which gift to give research participants. Because in the ethics form, you will have to justify whether you will pay your participants or not, and how much you will pay them. To me, I don’t receive any funding for my research, so I can’t afford to pay them but only to give my participants some small gifts from the UK. My luggage was already full of gifts and stuff, so I had to think of something which was typical of the UK as well as cheap and meaningful for my research participants. Also, this must not available in Vietnam as well.
So this is what I’ve come up with: Twinings tea with different flavours. I also love it as I often have them either in the afternoon or at night when I have to stay up late to do my assignments. And I wrap them up nicely before giving to my research participants as a thank to them!!! Aren’t my gifts cute???
Gifts for research participants 🙂
Now, the gifts are ready. I contacted and talked to some people about my research already but still have to wait for my ethics form to be approved. Please, please the Committe, please approve my ethics form as soon as possible because my research is low risk!!!
If you’re going to study at Brunel next year, make sure you prepare the ethics form in advance and be patient as to get it approved is supposed to be a process (someone last year told me this). Don’t think that they will approve right away when you submit your form.
Although it takes time, it is good to do research ethically!!!
Back a bit to end of May, Brighton was my destination before home 🙂 In the UK, you can sometimes take a break from your study and organize a day trip like this. First, you need to decide where you want to go first like Oxford, Cambridge, Brighton, St. Alban (if you want to see an old Roman village). Second, you need to find how to get there. You can always get cheap tickets if you book online in advance. For my trip to Brighton, it only cost me 12 pounds for a 2-way ticket. And then, read and find out what you want to discover there, what you should eat, should do when you’re there.
Here are some pictures of the day trip. First of all, welcome to Brighton:
Welcome to Brighton
Brighton rail station – I like the running roof of the station. It looks like a spinal column of a big dinosaur 🙂
In Brighton, of course, you need to go to the beach:
The beach on a sunny day 🙂
- A look from Brighton pier
Need to go to Brighton pier and look down to the vast sea and I caught this scene: the dog was unsuccessful to catch its owners’ attention because they were busy fishing 🙂
Fish and chips, sea food mix are among those thing can’t be missed. Sorry, I was busy eating and forgot to take pictures of the food. They were so yummy. 😀
On the way, you should drop by the Fishing museum as well. It is a very small museum, but you got to go there to grasp the feeling of the place where a boat driving license is also on display… But don’t expect it to be a very big and modern museum. It’s just a simple, peaceful and tranquility museum like the life of the people here… And the Fishing Quarter is the place where you can buy seafood 🙂
Another must-see place is the Royal Garden:
The Royal Garden & the influx of tourists 🙂
The Royal Pavillon
I did drop by a 200-year pub to have half pint of cider but didn’t have time to visit the Toy Museum as planned. So gotta come back and visit it next time!!!
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