Looking back as Research Insiders reaches 200 posts
I started this blog (under another name) about nine years and over 200 posts ago… that’s a long time on the internet. In the first
I started this blog (under another name) about nine years and over 200 posts ago… that’s a long time on the internet. In the first
When you start a PhD, you are doing something you’ve been practicing for a long time, studying, and you’ve shown you are really good
Subjectively, the final stages of a writing project often feel the most ‘stuck’, boring and slow. Why is that, when objectively they are often the opposite?
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
‘Binge writing’ is a common term, which I see used globally by people talking about why it’s better to write a small amount every day. But we need a more inclusive way to talk about intense and fulfilling writing time.
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
A post drawn from our new book was published on the Thesis Whisperer blog a fortnight ago. If you want to sign up to find
In 2013, I wrote one of my most significant early posts on this blog, The Perfect Sentence Vortex and How to Escape It. That post
Hello everyone! It’s been quiet here for a bit, not because my drafts folder isn’t full of future posts but because I’ve been on research
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
