I recently received the following question, which may be relevant for all readers:Hi Eva,I am currently done reading your wonderful book about the PhD trajectory and I have a couple of questions regarding your book; it's about the gaps in…
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's post is written by Ben Kaube. Ben is a PhD student researching in computational materials science at Imperial College London. When not running physics simulations, Ben likes to build software tools that remove frustrations from people’s lives. In the…
Time for another Q&A post (yes, I'm finally doing an effort in replying your long overdue questions!).Here's a question I received a few months ago:While reading any phd file you usually highlight the important points from that file. How do…
Today's guest post is a contribution from Seán Mac Fhearraigh, PhD. Seán was a PhD student at University College Dublin & a post-doc a Cambridge University where he studied mechanisms of cell division. Currently Seán run’s an ELISA assay company…
I've been slacking a bit in replying your questions that you sent me - sorry folks! Between running the defenses series and the "how I work" series and regular work, things have been a bit hectic. But here I am…
Dear readers,Here's an overdue Q&A post. More and more, I'm receiving requests (in different forms and manners) asking if I could do your research for you. Let me explain my point of view by illustrating this topic with a question…
Another great question from a reader - and one that will certainly sound very familiar to all of you starting your research journey. Here's the question:i want to start over research work on child labour, but i do not how…
More Q&A - and remember, you are always free to drop me your questions as well, and I'll do my very best to either send you a personal mail with my thoughts, or turn it into a Q&A post.A reader…
Today I have the pleasure of hosting Dr. Ben Libberton, who shares his best advice for the literature review with us. Ben is a Postdoc at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. He’s a microbiologist with a degree from the…
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