As I'm thinking about ways I can help my own PhD candidates as well as push for structural changes inside my universities, I first wanted to know who has been most and least helpful to PhD candidates during the ongoing…
I (not so) recently received the following question from a reader, and thought it would be good to address this in a Q&A post. Hello! I am an aspiring PhD student who will be applying to programs this fall.My question…
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…
I recently was interviewed for the podcast "Admissions Straight Talk", a podcast related to all things university admissions from the company Accepted. You can find the interview and transcript here. There are also some short video clips in there from…
As it's my habit to report and discuss my weekly template of each semester, you can find my weekly template of Spring 2021 here. The most important features are: A writing block in the early morning, which I am currently…
I recently did an interview with the eLearning podcast on teaching and supervising PhD candidates remotely. Here's all the information about the episode, as well as a reprint of the extensive shownotes of the episode! I'll be adding in the…
On February 28th, I looked at my calendar to transfer my appointments and committed tasks and timeblocks for the day into my analog agenda. To my amazement, I did not have a single Zoom call (or Teams meeting, or Webex,…
I recently ran a Twitter poll to learn more about the main struggles researchers are facing because of COVID-19. The main struggle is something I certainly recognize: no time!
Today, I have the pleasure of interviewing Maxine Britto in the How I Work series, academic parents edition. Maxine is a second year doctoral student in education, based in Canada. She is studying validity and reliability of classroom assessment in…
Today, I have the pleasure of inviting Dr. Ben Purvis to share his defense experience with us. Dr. Ben Purvis is currently a research associate at the School of Architecture at the University of Sheffield, UK. His research interests encompass…
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