Kiera Obbard

Editorial & Brand Communications | Ph.D. Candidate, Canadian Poetry, New Media & Digital Humanities | Poet

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  • Tips for Passing your Ph.D. Qualifying Exams

    Tips for Passing your Ph.D. Qualifying Exams

    In January 2022, I passed my Ph.D. qualifying exam and officially became a Ph.D. Candidate. For those who aren’t familiar with the Ph.D. process, this means that I am ABD, which stands for “All but dissertation.” This means that all that’s left in my program is for me to write and defend my dissertation. A […]

    KO

    August 23, 2022
    part-time phd
    dh, digital humanities, doctoral studies, doctorate, grad school, humanities, literary studies, part-time phd, phd, school, university of guelph
  • Presentation: Close Reading the Sonic Topology of Instagram Poetry with Poemage

    Presentation: Close Reading the Sonic Topology of Instagram Poetry with Poemage

    On May 16-17th, 2022, I attended the SpokenWeb Symposium 2022 at Concordia University in Montreal on the theme of “The Sound of Literature in Time.” My presentation was titled “Close Reading the Sonic Topology of Instagram Poetry with Poemage”. In the presentation, I show how Poemage, an open-source visualization tool for exploring the sonic topology […]

    KO

    June 7, 2022
    part-time phd
    dh, digital humanities, doctoral studies, doctorate, humanities, literary studies, part-time phd, phd
  • How to get a Research Assistant position

    How to get a Research Assistant position

    When I started my Ph.D. as a part-time student, I knew that I wasn’t going to be able to accept my Teaching Assistant (TA) positions given my other responsibilities: a full-time 9-5 job, extracurriculars, course work and my own research, and spending time with my friends and families. At the time, there weren’t many opportunities […]

    KO

    February 23, 2022
    part-time phd
    graduate research assistant, how to get a research assistant position, part-time phd, phd, research assistant
  • How to write a conference abstract

    How to write a conference abstract

    This year, I am the Graduate Placement Officer (GPO) representative for our graduate student committee, which generally means that I work with our GPO to organize and host professionalization workshops for graduate students. As part of this role, last semester I organized and led a workshop on how to write a conference abstract. Here are […]

    KO

    January 7, 2022
    part-time phd
    abstract, academia, conference, conference abstract, conference presentation, graduate school, humanities, part-time phd
  • Top 9 tips for incoming PhD students

    Top 9 tips for incoming PhD students

    Summer is winding down in Canada which, for anyone in academia, means we are gearing up for another school year—and welcoming another incoming cohort of PhD students. I’ve been reflecting on my first year in the program lately and have been speaking with some of my PhD friends about what we wish we’d known heading […]

    KO

    September 4, 2021
    part-time phd
    grad school, grad students, part-time phd, phd, tips
  • Reflections on my first comprehensive exam

    Reflections on my first comprehensive exam

    Last semester, I finished my fifth and final course required for my PhD at the University of Guelph. The fall before (Fall 2019), I passed my written and oral exams for my Secondary Area Qualifications. Here are some of my reflections on the comprehensive exam now that I’m about halfway through the program. Secondary Area […]

    KO

    April 13, 2021
    part-time phd
  • Part-time PhD in a pandemic

    Part-time PhD in a pandemic

    It’s been a little over a year now since the COVID-19 pandemic hit and we switched to remote work, school, and ways of life. My PhD experience hasn’t been all that typical. I’ve been working full-time and doing my studies part-time, commuting to campus one day a week to work and do school work in […]

    KO

    April 5, 2021
    part-time phd
  • Interrogating Augmented Tech Mediation in Mobile Gaming App Pokémon GO!

    Interrogating Augmented Tech Mediation in Mobile Gaming App Pokémon GO!

    Written by Abi Lemak & Kiera Obbard.Original post can be found on Medium. Growing up in the 1990s and 2000s, we were, like many of our friends, caught up in the Pokémon hype. We wanted to “catch ’em all,” as the show’s theme song invited — and when Pokémon GO! was released in Canada in the summer of […]

    KO

    December 2, 2020
    Uncategorized
  • Thinking Forward at IABC World Conference 2019

    Thinking Forward at IABC World Conference 2019

    Right after my first ever DHSI, I flew from Victoria to Vancouver to attend the IABC World Conference 2019 – another set of firsts for me with my first international conference and first time in Vancouver. Meghan met me in Vancouver and we took a cab to our hotel, checked in, and went to grab […]

    KO

    August 18, 2019
    OpenText
  • My first Digital Humanities Summer Institute

    My first Digital Humanities Summer Institute

    June 2019 marked my first time attending the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) in Victoria, B.C. It was also my first time visiting Victoria, my first time taking a week-long technical course about a coding language, and my first DH related conference! It was an incredible experience – here’s what I learned. What is DHSI? […]

    KO

    August 18, 2019
    part-time phd
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