Managing your workload (i.e., your life)
Students ask: How can I manage all the work in time? And how can I balance the PhD with everything else? How do I spread […]
Author: Marian Petre
Project Management Essentials
Written in collaboration with David Bowers. One of the most important – and most overlooked – factors in timely submission is project […]
Reading your own work
Students ask: How do you read your own work and criticize it? How can I read like an examiner? People usually read […]
Imposter syndrome
Students ask: How can I deal with imposter syndrome? There’s so much I don’t know; I feel like a fraud. Imposter syndrome – that […]
Research hygiene
Students ask: What does it mean to keep good records? How can I maintain traceability between my writing and my notes? Research […]
The audit trail
Record keeping is fundamental to research – and to research supervision. Supervisors often resist student-record-keeping as mindless bureaucracy, but a clear audit trail […]
Destructive behaviours (to avoid)
Students ask: What should I do when I haven’t made any progress? I don’t want to waste my supervisor’s time… There are few […]
Navigating terminological confusion – the case of case studies
Students ask: What is a case study? One of the ironies of academia that, in a realm that strives for precision and rigour, […]
Talk in 2 minutes
Students ask: How can I explain all of my research in two minutes? Many conferences have two-minute slots for people to introduce their […]
Walk-and-talk
Taking an awkward or difficult conversation with a student out of the office and walking around outside while you talk – the […]