Today started with an unexpected invitation…

A dear colleague of mine located in Qatar suggested that, because of my previous editorial and writing experiences, I should consider enrolling in an online peer review academy (Publons) and become a certified, credentialed academic reviewer. Moreover, she suggested I serve as her mentor during her progression through the academy; something I was all too happy to oblige.

Later in the morning, I attended my first KL seminar and composed a post-mortem report describing the technology efficacy for provisioning the meeting from a distance PhD researcher perspective (it was most positive!). Thereafter, I further contributed through a volunteer position at the KL by scheduling additional and upcoming KL seminars and broadcasting these to the appropriate UCL channels in order to invite attendees.

Because I am a full-time PhD student, I have to carefully balance other business and family/personal responsibilities. Today was such a day; in that, following a busy academic day, I tended to third-party business matters over the course of a 4-hour night-time  recording studio session for an upcoming artist on a well-known recording label. Curiously, there is a blending of my academic and business pursuits in that I found myself employing many of the technologies in the music domain that are to be leveraged as part of my audiometrics methodology utilised in my PhD research and trials.