Fien De Malsche

wetenschappelijk medewerker bij het centrum voor taal & onderwijs (CTO) │ PhD in linguistics │ pronounced /fiːn/ │ tweets in EN and NL │ she/her

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That’s it: I defended my dissertation, so I’m officially #PhDone! You can now call me Dr. De Malsche, PhD in Linguistics 👩‍🎓 (although Fien still works as well, I guess)

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@mathewgillings Oh I love this! Tell her hi!

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I'm so incredibly honored to have been awarded the Association for Business Communication's Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award. Thank you @A4_BC!

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Congratulations @Sverkest on the absolutely fantastic defense of your PhD! 👩‍🎓

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I gave my first ever presentation as a doctor last week, and as if that wasn't exciting enough, it was a keynote! Thanks @MTB_UGent and @GeertJacobs123 for the invitation (and for the lovely flowers 💐)

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This paper is also a chapter in my PhD, and one I'm particularly proud of (so many rewrites 🥲). It's the first of 3 articles on language in performance appraisals planned for publication, so stay tuned!! 🤗

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📢 Publication alert 📢
We examined the use of different multilingual strategies in corporate performance appraisal interviews. Spoiler alert: some strategies work better than others, and that doesn't necessarily have to do with language proficiency!

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For those who want to learn more, the article is available Open Access (yay!) https://t.co/lqxrl4xCVW

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Mieke actually supervised my first MA thesis in 2018, and then took me under her wing and helped me realize that I had the potential to become a researcher. I wouldn’t be Dr. De Malsche today without her guidance and support over the past 6 years 🤗

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That’s it: I defended my dissertation, so I’m officially #PhDone! You can now call me Dr. De Malsche, PhD in Linguistics 👩‍🎓 (although Fien still works as well, I guess)

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I’m so incredibly grateful to my supervisors, Mieke Vandenbroucke and Els Tobback, shown here as they were reading the first full draft of the dissertation in July during the heatwave at #AILA2023 😅

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And finally: things will go wrong. I experienced a global pandemic and an office fire during my PhD, as well as a lot of academic rejection in different shapes and forms. But if I managed to get through it, so can you!!

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At the end of the week, I’ll be defending my PhD dissertation, and if all goes well (🤞), that will mark the end of this journey. Here are a few things I want to share in hindsight — a 🧵

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Choose your supervisor(s) carefully. Nothing will impact your PhD trajectory more than this decision, so be sure that they're the right fit for you and your project