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Giving back during your PhD
Hi everyone, I have recently been working with a company based at my university that produces an online educational resource for its community of some of the brightest 13-18 year olds across the globe....
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10 Things You Will Think During Your PhD
Hello everyone and Happy New Year! I thought I would start my first post of 2014 with a reassurance of the emotions I don’t doubt you’ll experience during the course of your PhD. So here they are, in...
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Keeping calm and carrying on!
Hi everyone, I blog about what I can relate to, so this week I’m using my blog as my own form of therapy by writing about how to keep calm and carry on during the latter stages of your PhD. Hopefully I...
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Presenting your PhD
Hi all, I recently presented my PhD at an early career researchers event in agriculture. Hence, I thought it would be apt to talk about my advice on presenting your research from my own experience. 1....
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What I’ve learnt from my PhD
A few months have passed since I submitted my PhD thesis and this has given me some time to reflect on my PhD experience…..so I thought I would share my thoughts in this latest blog post. I think the...
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The PhD Application Process
I’ve just completed my 2nd full week of PhD study, it’s all been a bit of a whirlwind and time is going so quickly. I am really enjoying getting to grips with the work, but I’ll admit to being...
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Starting a Writing Group
My name is Rachel and I’m a first year PhD student at Sheffield Hallam University. I’m doing research within the field of Higher Education, specifically exploring the career aspirations of female...
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Feeling Useful During Your PhD
Doing a PhD is a weird thing; you’re suddenly very independent and hyper-aware of how useful your impact may or may not be. The feeling of being useful is a great one, it gives you purpose and...
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You Have Office Envy
…Or, ‘Wherever You lay Your Phone (That’s Your Home)’. Do you have an office? I do not*. Annoyingly the PhD student who asks you this question invariably has their own. It must be one of the top PhD...
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9-Month Viva and Always, Always Expect the Unexpected
Before I started my PhD everyone told me to ‘expect the unexpected’, that at some point something would happen to derail my PhD plans and I should expect this to happen. I figured that was a really...
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