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 hear come up over and
When I talk to PhD candidates about how they plan their time, this is one of the challenges that I hear come up over and
I’ve wanted to have the chance to regularly work from home for years, but it was never an option in any of the jobs I’d
So things have been quiet over here on the blog, not because I haven’t been thinking and writing about support for doctoral research, but because
Is your work ‘interdisciplinary’? (Or maybe it is ‘cross-disciplinary’ or ‘multi-disciplinary’.) Or is the purpose of your work to take insights from one way of
Now that basically every course has at least some online components, making your web resources accessible is important. Because students with disabilities may have more
This is, perhaps, one of the biggest questions for many PhD candidates. Candidates know they need to make an ‘original contribution to knowledge’, but many
I know most of my blog is about academic writing for theses, books and journal articles, but there is another form of academic writing that
On this blog, and in programs I’m involved in like Thesis Boot Camp and Shut Up and Write, we frequently recommend just getting out a
I’ve addressed some of these questions before, particularly in Building your thesis on the corpses of your enemies and in my post on Effective Signposting. But I
On the one hand, much doctoral research is about careful analysis of what is already known, and exact, incremental, logical steps towards newer knowledge. On
