Blog of Dr Darryl Sellwood

Provocative, disruptive and sometimes subversive — inventor of the Bummunicator!

Category: University

  • If Reading My Thesis Feels Like a Chore, Here’s a Podcast Instead!

    Let’s be real: reading a PhD thesis is not everyone’s idea of a good time. I get it—hundreds of pages of academic jargon and charts might not scream “entertainment.” But what if I told you that you could get the juicy bits of my PhD findings in just 20 minutes? Yep, I’ve turned my research…

  • How I take notes when preparing for a literature review

    Someone asked me to explain my note taking techniques a few weeks ago. I have been putting it off because it seems like a time-consuming task but I feel I need to do it! Taking notes from reading literature papers has always been a struggle. I used to use Endnote to store and manage all…

  • Is it Coffee Time Yet?

    Well, a third of the year has gone past already!!! It has been a busy one for me. As usual, I have many things on the go. The year started with finishing off loose ends on a project funded by the Caring Futures Institute’s COVID-19 grant scheme. I was working as a qualitative researcher, conducting…

  • The PhD Thesis 2019

    Update: The thesis received a Flinders University Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Doctoral Thesis Excellence. Lived experiences of people with complex communication needs: Romantic and sexual relationships by Darryl James Sellwood Thesis Submitted to Flinders University for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Disability and Community Inclusion College of Nursing & Health Sciences July 2019 Supervisors: Associate…

  • This site has been cited twice in year

    I am pretty slack with writing blog posts. My last post was at the beginning of the year and now it’s April! The past week I was thinking I should to start writing short blog entries, yet having to worry about heading also a blog, you feel you have to write something more than one…