Some workplaces and research cultures explicitly or implicitly run so that every conversation is actually a battle for airtime, and it’s common to try to sabotage other people’s chances. We should be working towards the exact opposite: energising, authentic, worthwhile, academic conversations. That’s what we love about getting together with our nerd pals.
Of all the posts I wrote for this blog in the early days, ‘Generative Writing and #shutupandwrite‘ has dated the most. In those days I
While I’m writing the Writing Trouble book, I’m surrounded by some of my favourite texts about writing. None of them have all the answers, but
Often candidates and researchers come to talk to me when they are trying to get back into academic writing after a long break. That break
Last time I posted about “pre-research”, I talked about moving from pre-research into searching and then researching for a literature review. I said: Finally, I would go
On the one hand, of course a PhD is ‘hard’–as in ‘has a high difficulty setting’ and also ‘is a lot of work’. It’s 3+
Normally, we think of the process of writing a thesis as a process of ‘writing up’. That is, you do it after your research is
In 2012, I wrote a post for The Thesis Whisperer blog on the Cornell Method of note taking and how effective I thought it was.
This post was co-authored by a really generous bunch of people, some of whom we met for the first time to write it. The post
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
