An average day for me depends on whether I'm doing field work or whether I'm working

at La Trobe University in my office.

So, if I'm doing field work up at Lake Mungo I'm basically looking for new

archaeological sites or stone artefact scatters, and when I find them I record them in detail.

And then when I'm back in Melbourne at La Trobe University working in my office, I'm

analysing that data and I'm doing some research and I'm trying to write up my chapters.

There are two things that help overcome the challenges of being faced with a big

research project and one of them is just taking a really organised approach from

the get go – when you first start your research, trying to plan everything out.

And the other thing is having a good supervisor – which I do, she gives me a lot of

direction and a lot of feedback on my progress, so that I can improve things all the time.