Last week I wrote about what a full-time study load looks like, and how to plan your time so you…
What does studying full-time really mean?
When I talk to PhD candidates about how they plan their time, this is one of the challenges that I…
My wildcard day
I’ve wanted to have the chance to regularly work from home for years, but it was never an option in…
Academic Writing Trouble comes out in time for Christmas (fingers crossed)
So things have been quiet over here on the blog, not because I haven’t been thinking and writing about support…
Talking across disciplines
Is your work ‘interdisciplinary’? (Or maybe it is ‘cross-disciplinary’ or ‘multi-disciplinary’.) Or is the purpose of your work to take…
How do I make my online teaching resources accessible?
Now that basically every course has at least some online components, making your web resources accessible is important. Because students…
Writing a PhD in your second language: 7 reasons you’re doing great and 5 ways to do even better
Students who don’t speak English as their first language are often very worried about writing an 80-100,000 word thesis. And…
‘Your thesis is the map, not the journey’, on the Thesis Whisperer Blog.
A post drawn from our new book was published on the Thesis Whisperer blog a fortnight ago. If you want…
What is knowledge and how do I contribute to it?
This is, perhaps, one of the biggest questions for many PhD candidates. Candidates know they need to make an ‘original…
Top tips for communicating well in difficult meetings
One of the things all researchers have to face is, occasionally, a difficult meeting. It might be a meeting with your…
