How I became a researcher in personal science

I was recently asked a question that I hadn’t been asked before:

How to become a researcher in personal science?
Can you describe your process
from idea to completed doctor’s degree
in personal science?

I replied by making a list of some of the blog posts that I have written during my journey. I started in early 2010 and I got my PhD degree in March 2022. In those 12 years I have learnt a lot, and many of my learnings were things I didn’t know that I didn’t know. Below are the 20 blog posts I have chosen to represent that journey.

Enjoy and let me know your thoughts in the comments!

Link number 1, from February of 2010:

On a tightrope – Life is a balance!

Link number 2, from December 2010:

Me and PD revisited

Link number 3, from April 2011:

The first meeting

Link number 4, from April 2011:

The first diagnosis

Link number 5, from September 2012:

My mission is NOT to improve healthcare…

Link number 6, from October 2012:

First time I wrote about my image with 8 765 blue dots and 1 red:

Healthcare vs Selfcare

Link number 7, from October 2013:

Bruised knees and bruised ego…

Link number 8, from May 2014:

We need a “Copernican Revolution” in healthcare!

Link number 9, from October 2014:

Healthcare or health?

Link number 10, from October 2015:

The Burden of Tracking

Link number 11, from January 2016:

For whose sake is research done – really?

Link number 12, from March 2016:

Neuroscience – theory and practice

Link number 13, from August 2016:

What is in a fall?

Link number 14, from August 2017:

A small round white pill

Link number 15, from September 2018:

Ethics and PhD

Link number 16, from January 2019:

Walking revolutionised

Link number 17, from July 2019:

“But Sara…”

Link number 18, from July 2020:

PhD trajectory update

Link number 19, from November 2020:

Tracking of COVID-19

Link number 20, from March 2022:

On this day 10 years ago…