Great jobs for bright people
Whether you're just at the beginning of your PhD journey, or further down the line, a PhD is still a huge challenge. Arun and Julia have created these podcasts to share tips and advice on the practical things they learned during their PhD studies, things they wish they'd known before they embarked on 4 years of in-depth research.
Celebrating all the little things A PhD is a strange beast. It is a huge amount of work, over a long period of time, and completing this is something to…
How I work One of the best, and yet possibly hardest things about doing a PhD is the flexibility it gives. For the most part, you can work when, where,…
This is the second part of my 2-part blog about feedback.
A skill that PhD students need to master is the art of constructively using feedback that we receive on our work. There are three main forms of feedback that you…
One of the interesting features of academia is the amount of travel to conferences and other events. I am recently started my third year of my PhD, and so far…
Following on from my previous post on my ups and downs during my 1st year, this post covers my main ups and downs from my 2nd year. Mid-point struggles I…
Like most things in life, a PhD is full of a variety of ups and downs.
Your supervisor will become the second most important driving force of your project for the next few years. On occasion he or she will become THE driving force when motivation slumps…
The last blog post discussed the purpose of attaining a superficial research overview of your area is so that you can identify a gap in knowledge which you can propose…
