This document discusses the author's PhD topic which involves three main ingredients: urban design, transport, and cycling with a focus on women. It outlines some of the turning points in her research including a shift towards rationality, politics, and sociology as well as qualitative research methods like interviews and autoethnography. The author emphasizes the importance of reading, speaking to people at conferences and through chance encounters, keeping an open mind, using her own skills and interests, and having an engaging supervision team to help push her work forward and detect opportunities related to her three main research ingredients.

1. PhD and other matters
Katja Leyendecker
25 April 2018

2. Once upon a time…

3. You Supervision
PhD
Three ingredients

4. My PhD topic - building blocks
Urban design
Transport
cycling
Women

5. Turning points
Rationality / politics / sociology
Activism
Qualitative methods
• Interviews
• Auto/ethnography
Objectivity is men’s subjectivity
The personal is political

6. Think
Reading,
reading,
reading
Speaking to people
• at conferences
• Chance
encounters
Chance and creativity
Equipment not
available
Keeping an open
mind

7. You
Skills
Interests
passions
Supervision
Team and processes
Pushing your envelope
having fun
Detect opportunities
Three ingredients

8. The (happy) end
(until further notice)