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Written by Alex Scott

My name is Alex; I am a final year PhD student at The University of Sheffield. My research is interested in the effects sleep disturbances have on psychotic experiences, particularly paranoia. I am also investigating how self-help interventions can be used to reduce paranoid thinking. I am in the ‘writing-up’ stage of my PhD, which basically means I am turning my data into words and will hopefully have a PhD thesis to show for it in the coming months. I will be writing about everything PhD life, from publication to graduation, and the challenges I face each day. I hope you find it interesting and please do get in touch if you have any questions.

    The planning fallacy: Underestimating your task completion times

    June 22, 2015 by Alex Scott

    “When can you have that first draft completed? “ “I will have that with you next week, it’s practically finished anyway” MANY. WEEKS. LATER. “I promise, definitely next week, I…

    Imposter Syndrome and how to (begin to) overcome it

    June 12, 2015 by Alex Scott

    My name is Alex; I am 26 years old and am in the final stages of my PhD, based in the Department of Psychology at The University of Sheffield. I…

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