Charlotte Haines Lyon has a background in Youth and Community work.  She worked in a variety of youth and community settings and moved on to Adult Education including working with Age Concern.  She gained a Masters in Philosophy and Religion at Heythrop College (UCL) and a PhD at York St John University.  She worked as a freelance writer for a variety of charities and more recently has been developing Democratic Methodologies in Educational Research.  

 

In this episode we look to demystify the annual review process.

 

Charlotte shares her own difficult experience and what she learnt from it.

 

We explore the key difference between annual reviews and upgrade meetings that most PhD researchers don’t know.

 

Charlotte outlines the simple shift in perspective that can transform these high stakes moments from dread to opportunity.

 

She also shares the one thing that she always encourages her supervisees to do after intense review meetings.

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