Recently (well, honestly, not that recently, I've been falling behind a bit on answering your questions), I received the following question from a reader: I have an upcoming interview for PhD Studentship... I'm very confused and tense about it.Considering yourself…
Time for another episode of the Q&A series! (Not so) recently I received the following message (edited to protect the writer's anonymity):Hi there,I want to do a PHD, very keen to do it but my school academics and under graduation…
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…
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…
Recently, a reader posted me the following question:Hi I am thinking of doing PhD and have just come acrossed some scholarships possibiities as well. But before applying I need to contact a potential supervisor and required to do communication about…
A little while ago, I got this question from a reader as a comment to the Silver Linings introduction.Also, could you write about starting with a research? I am actually afraid to start with it, to just do it and…
In the academic blogosphere, there are fans and haters of starting with writing at the very beginning of your PhD.I started writing very early, and even though not much of that material has made it into my dissertation, I did…
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