Lisa Wolf

Lisa Adams Wolf is Associate Professor, Elaine Marieb College of Nursing at UMass Amherst, and Director, Emergency Nursing Research at the Emergency Nurses Association. She has 20 years’ experience in education and research, and almost 30 years as a clinician. She notes that research is by its nature a disruptive process that challenges social assumptions, and would ask that you formulate research questions appropriately.

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How I Developed My Dissertation Proposal in Two Years

How do you get from the first day of your PhD program to a functional dissertation proposal in two years? In this article, a now-Associate Professor discusses how they used every class to funnel down their PhD proposal while reading widely. *Results may vary.

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