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10 Things You Will Think During Your PhD
Hello everyone and Happy New Year! I thought I would start my first post of 2014 with a reassurance of the emotions I don’t doubt you’ll experience during the course of your PhD. So here they are, in...
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The good and the bad of a PhD
Hello all, As I approach the last stages of my PhD, I think I have some understanding through my own experience of the good and the bad it brings, so I thought I would share my thoughts with you...
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Presenting your PhD
Hi all, I recently presented my PhD at an early career researchers event in agriculture. Hence, I thought it would be apt to talk about my advice on presenting your research from my own experience. 1....
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The Importance of a PhD Protocol
Over the first few weeks of my journey to PhD I had a notebook with me at all times, scribbling down notes to myself that I thought may in some way be of benefit to my research. Whilst this was a good...
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You Think You Work
When I first started my PhD I was lost. This didn’t quite compute because everything leading up to that point had come together so well. Having relocated to London I had (and still have) the best...
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You Are A Fraud
The game’s up, you’ve been caught. Thought no one would notice? Well you’ve been spotted in the reading groups, shifting in your seat and not joining in; silent at the seminars, tremulous with fear...
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You Have Office Envy
…Or, ‘Wherever You lay Your Phone (That’s Your Home)’. Do you have an office? I do not*. Annoyingly the PhD student who asks you this question invariably has their own. It must be one of the top PhD...
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You Don’t Use The Library
Libraries are great aren’t they? Clean, quiet spaces with excellent facilities: the toilets in the larger ones can be handsome and some have the luxury of an attached café or smorgasbord pop-up. Most...
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12 Things Star Wars Got Wrong About Your PhD!
Fans of the new Star Wars film, The Force Awakens have been busily besmirching the internet with their inconsequential theories about what the series may have in store but did you know that J.J....
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Follow-up to postgraduate options hangout – Choosing a supervisor
This is second post in a Q&A format following recent hangout on postgraduate options on jobs.ac.uk where there wasn’t time to answer all the questions and so in the next couple of weeks I will...
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