Today, I'm starting a new series of posts at PhD Talk. While writing with Veronika Cheplygina for her interview, we touched upon the subject of how different her PhD defense in the Netherlands was from her boyfriend's defense in Sweden.…
Today, I invited Claudia Gonzalez to share her PhD experience in a guest post. Clau is a PhD student in Strategic Management at the University of Washington. Her research interests revolve around healthcare and technology. She blogs about the dyslexic…
Today, Dr. Deepa Pullanikkatil is sharing with us what she learned during her PhD. Deepa is an Environmental Management professional with an engineering background and she has fourteen years of work experience in developing countries of Malawi, Lesotho, India and…
Recently, I was contacted by a scientist who uses the pseudonym Joseph Helpman to review his book, "How to get a PhD effectively". The subtitle of the book is "The untold time-management secrets of the most successful scientists" and the…
Today, I'd like to invite you all to have a look at the QS GradSchool Guide for the academic year 2015/2016. It is 128 pages full of great information for anyone considering to do a PhD, as well as for…
Today I have invited Sheila M. Cronin to talk about her most recent novel, in which the main character is a PhD candidate. Sheila obtained her master's degree in mental health sciences from Hahnemann Medical Graduate School (now Drexel) of…
Another long since overdue post in the category of Questions and Answers!Some time ago, a PhD student sent me the following question:Good afternoon. I'm PhD student. Thanks for the nice articles in this blog. Would like to share with you…
Today, I'm inviting Silvia Tavares to share her thoughts on self-care in academia. Silvia is a Brazilian researcher living in New Zealand. She submitted her PhD in Urban Landscape at Lincoln University last July, and just after that she headed…
Today I have the pleasure of hosting 3rd year social science PhD student at a prominent university in the United States, who would like to remain anonymous.During the last week of a frigid New York February, I walk home from…
Today I have the pleasure of inviting Catherine to share her views on self-care in academia. Catherine is currently writing up her PhD in linguistics at the University of York, studying the role that onomatopoeia play in child language development.…
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