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I have to use research plans and
protocols as part of my study,

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and you know, not just because 
I feel that I have to do it,

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but I benefit a lot
from using them.

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So being a PhD
candidate, I start out

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with a first draft
of a research plan,

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and I constantly go through
and review and improve upon it.

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And it's trying to strike a
balance between enough detail,

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but enough leeway because it
is supposed to be exploratory.

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And you come up against
certain dead ends,

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you'll have to test
and try things out.

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But if you haven't planned
well enough at the beginning,

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you know there's only so much
time that you can waste,

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and dead ends that
you can go down.

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So you try to plan
as best as you can,

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consulting the correct
guidelines and resources

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and an expertise
within the university.

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In terms of the
importance, research plans

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have always been important.

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And I guess that probably
comes from a past work history.

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So the only thing that
has changed, I guess,

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is realising that the
learning is in the process,

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so the drafting, improving,
the trial and error, learning

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what worked, learning how the
best go-to sources to help

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guide you in developing that
research plan, has improved

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over time.

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And so, I guess just
never forgetting

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the importance of
reviewing, and trying

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to improve your research
plan, and that it's

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an ongoing process.

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At the beginning
of our research,

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we had a plan of
what we will do

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and what we could
expect, because we

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did some sampling of mosquitoes
in a zoological garden.

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So our original plan was
to capture a certain amount

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of mosquitoes, but that was
a particularly good year

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for mosquitoes and we got
almost three times the number

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of samples.

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So we had to adapt our
plans a little bit.

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And because of that,
we had to change

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our ways of analysing
the data in the lab,

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and we had to develop an
extra plan for dealing

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with that situation.

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And because we had a very
clear idea of our ultimate goal

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in this project, we we're able to
process the samples in time

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and in an efficient way,
and keep also at the same

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the samples for
further analysis.

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So it was very good that
we had this plan in advance,

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and that we could adapt
it, when it was needed.