Last week, I headed up to Canberra to hang out with my How to Fix your Academic Writing Trouble co-authors and hold…
Sending your thesis (or book) out into the world
The moment you send a book out into the world can be full of emotions. On the one hand, a…
Getting started on your PhD proposal
A couple of people in my wider circle have recently asked me about how to get started on a PhD…
The Insider’s view from the Library: 7 things I bet you didn’t know librarians could help you with.
Research Degree Insiders doesn’t normally do guest posts, but this was a special exception. While I have worked in jobs…
Almost, nearly, very nearly totally complete… except…
There is a stage at the end of a major project, like sending off a book or a thesis, where…
Who am I writing this article for?
You know how it is. You’ve been working on an article forever, but it just isn’t working. You need to…
The critical distance break
Sometimes I realise that an important idea I’ve been talking about, almost since the beginning of the blog, has never…
How to fix slow progress
Your progress might feel slow, but that might just be the normal speed of trying to learn new things, or experimenting (and…
Self care for everyone
When Audre Lorde wrote ‘self-care is warfare’, she declared that when an African-American woman takes care of herself, she fights back…
Research story ‘arcs’: the ‘Heroes Journey’ and other stories
I’ve been doing a bit of a deep dive into stuff I know about writing because of my English Literature…
