Today I am inviting Jenna Townend to share her experiences and ideas on self-care in academia. Jenna is a first year, full-time Ph.D student in the Department of English, Drama and Publishing at Loughborough University. She is researching the presence…
This post is part of the series PhD Talk for AcademicTransfer: posts written for the Dutch academic career network AcademicTransfer, your go-to resource for all research positions in the Netherlands. These posts are sponsored by AcademicTransfer, and tailored to those…
Today I'm inviting Lucy Baker to share her thoughts on self-care in academia. Lucy is a PhD candidate at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia, researching mainstream and fan adaptations that change the gender of one or more characters. My research…
Today I have the pleasure of inviting Mary-Lynn Chambers, Assistant Professor of English at Elizabeth City State University, North Carolina, to PhD Talk. Dr. Mary-Lynn Chambers has her Ph.D. in Technical and Professional Communication from East Carolina University. She has…
Time to answer some more of your questions, folks! Here's a recent submission from a reader (I obviously took out the personal details of the writer, and replaced these by Someone, Somewhere, My Field, and in Countries X and Y).Dear…
I recently came across an article from Lifehack about studying efficiently. While I'm a big fan of productivity hacks, I don't think there is a one-size-fits-all approach to studying. Some people need to mumble out loud when they study. Others…
Mostly unrelated - but, hey, here's a tucan :)Dear readers,I know I'm totally behind on replying questions in the Q&A series, but finally I'm back with a question I personally replied to a reader quite some time ago already.Some time…
Last Friday, students from the Civil Engineering department of Universidad San Francisco de Quito, competed in national concrete student competition of Ecuador. My two concrete colleagues and I were involved as tutors of the two groups of students, and I'm…
Last December, a study day was organized on the topic of the proofloading of the Ruytenschildt bridge in Friesland, in which I participated. As my interest is the ultimate limit state capacity of reinforced concrete slab bridges, I was involved…
This post is part of the series PhD Talk for AcademicTransfer: posts written for the Dutch academic career network AcademicTransfer, your go-to resource for all research positions in the Netherlands. These posts are sponsored by AcademicTransfer, and tailored to those…
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