Jennifer Hollowell

Formerly Birthplace Study lead researcher. Now working in global maternal & child health and studying medical anthropology. Tweeting in a personal capacity

[Jennifer Hollowell @Birthplace_Jen]

Pursuing perfection: the triumph of hope over experience

[The PhD Place @ThePhDPlace]

Write a title for a thesis on how to complete a PhD. Wrong answers only 👇

[Jennifer Hollowell @Birthplace_Jen]

Also, after every meeting take dated notes of what happened and what you both said, with verbatim quotes if possible. If the behaviour doesn’t stop - which hopefully it will when you call it out - you’ll have the evidence needed to escalate it.

[Jennifer Hollowell @Birthplace_Jen]

A technique that I learnt on a management course is: tell them what they’re doing, tell them how it makes you feel and tell them what you want them to do about it.

[The PhD Place @ThePhDPlace]

Anonymous question:

One of my colleagues told me that their supervisor makes inappropriate sexual jokes to them when they’re alone. I’ve never heard them make these types of jokes, but I believe my colleague. How do we make him stop?

[Jennifer Hollowell @Birthplace_Jen]

So, something like “when you make comments like that when other people aren’t around [could be more specific] it makes me feel very uncomfortable & I would like you to stop doing it”. Keep it neutral, be as specific as possible & don’t generalise eg “you always…”.

[Jennifer Hollowell @Birthplace_Jen]

I have also created an output style/filter (I forget what it’s called) so that I can automatically generate reports that include the citation details, abstract, plus my research notes on selected refs.

[Jennifer Hollowell @Birthplace_Jen]

I put the notes in the Research note field of Endnote but also add my own keywords but adding my initials as a prefix (JH_ ..) so that I can search on those separately from any keywords that I have imported with the reference.

[Pamela Oliver @PamOliver1180]

@tylerburgese I put my notes into the abstract field of my reference manager (EndNote, sometimes Zotero). Longer notes I attach document to the reference entry. Lets you find them again even years later. I may also paste those notes into a working document for a particular project.

[Jennifer Hollowell @Birthplace_Jen]

When writing on a particular topic I also use Endnote groups to gather together the references that are relevant and as I review them I use the rating star system to flag how relevant they are.

[Jennifer Hollowell @Birthplace_Jen]

I got to be a last-minute keynote speaker at a conference and suspect it was because they realised the conference brochure was going to look like this! I obliged by providing a photo for them to use of me in a pink outfit so they could add a little colour to the overwhelming grey

[Gemma Aitchison (BA hons, MSc, PGCE) @gemma_brett]

What's wrong with this picture....

[Jennifer Hollowell @Birthplace_Jen]

@richardosman It’s well known that there are three sorts of mathematician: those that can count and those that can’t. Not hard to see where you fit in.

[Jennifer Hollowell @Birthplace_Jen]

A friend (a Director of Public Health) advised me that if I wanted to raise an issue as a patient I should make it clear I was “raising a concern” and “not making a complaint” to avoid my letter going in the complaints pile and getting a defensive non-response!

[Yana Richens OBE PhD MPhil MSc BSc RN RGN @Yanarichens]

"If a clinician reports an an issue it is called an incident. If a patient reports an incident it is called a complaint" Bill Kirkup really thought provoking #MatNeoSummit2023

[Jennifer Hollowell @Birthplace_Jen]

… but only if you want a graduation certificate in Wingdings?

[The PhD Place @ThePhDPlace]

Bored? Write your thesis in Wingdings.

[Jennifer Hollowell @Birthplace_Jen]

Blavatnik School of Government at dusk. #Oxford #Blavatnik

[Jennifer Hollowell @Birthplace_Jen]

Do you have views on #AssistedDying and whether it should become legal in the UK? Today is your last change to participate in a parliamentary survey seeking views on this topic. It only takes a few minutes. https://t.co/kUc5FZ6DRY

[Jennifer Hollowell @Birthplace_Jen]

@MartinLandray Thank heavens you weren’t injured Martin, it would have caused the coders major problems. Might I suggest switching to alternative modes of transport - injuries caused by falling objects in boats (passenger boats, sailboats, unpowered watercraft,…) are well covered in ICD

[Jennifer Hollowell @Birthplace_Jen]

I normally only agree to review papers where I think that the abstract suggests that the paper may be publishable, and I try to make constructive comments/suggestions. But I recently found myself becoming….. 😱….reviewer 2! Time to stop reviewing perhaps.

[Dr Charlotte Albury @AlburyCharlotte]

Reviewer 1: this is very well written
Reviewer 2: this is not well written
😂

[Jennifer Hollowell @Birthplace_Jen]

@withwoman @TeamCMidO @MidwifeSpillane @HomebirthTeam @sheena_byrom @DrFeeleyRM @FWmaternity @hannahdahlen @Stringer4Kate @lia_bri Interesting. Any thoughts on what was going on? Concern about…being exposed to Covid? ..partners not being allowed to say? …or what? Did more women plan home births or did BBAs increase?

[Jennifer Hollowell @Birthplace_Jen]

Also, don’t leave your computer plugged in during a thunder storm! My house got struck by lightening as I was finalising the draft of my thesis and it zapped the hard drive (this was before the days of cloud storage so my back-up was on floppy discs 😱)

[Jennifer Hollowell @Birthplace_Jen]

I found my supervisor’s suggestion to write it ‘one paragraph at a time’ was extremely useful, particularly for the intro, literature review and discussion sections. Once you realise that you’ve only got a couple of hundred words to cover a sub-topic it’s much less daunting?

[Dr Vickie Rowland @vickierow91]

I would love to know how people coped/managed with the end/thesis writing for their Prof Doc (Health Psych), especially working full-time. Tips, tricks and encouragement needed please 🤗

[Jennifer Hollowell @Birthplace_Jen]

Interesting study on planned home and birth centre birth in a US setting with a well-integrated model of care. Here’s the link to the paper itself https://t.co/aWov9mbw2E

[Jennifer Hollowell @Birthplace_Jen]

Do you know someone whose baby or child needs or has has surgery? They might like to take part in this survey being conducted by the @NPEU_Oxford to try to better understand what ‘successful treatment’ means to parents and carers.

[NPEU-Oxford @NPEU_Oxford]

⏰SURVEY OPEN!
The University of Oxford are looking for people to help them work out what a ‘successful treatment’ is for a #child who has a #surgical condition.

➡️Follow https://t.co/uEZjmXXEVU to watch a short video
➡️Follow https://t.co/rGRAtf7HGE to take part!