Preparing for job interview questions in advance can help calm your nerves, so what are you likely to be asked in an interview for an academic job? This blog shared from the Thesis Whisperer has a few suggestions..
Sarah Stanford undertoook a PhD researching self-harm. In this blog she provides great advice for anyone thinking about the challenges of PhD and Parenting.
Thesis Whisperer post by Dr Pippa Yeoman who has started what is beginning to be called the ‘post-post-post doc’ stage of the academic career
How can you deal with PhD Fear, this great blog from Thesis Whisperer is by Elaine Campbell a Associate Professor at Northumbria Law School,
Have you given up a great full time job to do your PhD? Some of you might have done this fairly recently – what changes can you expect?
This post is by Dr Katherine Firth, research fellow at Latrobe University. Katherine blogs over at Research Voodoo. As you probably already know Inger, Shaun and I are writing a book…
Universities are often very well set up for individual disciplines, but if you don’t fit firmly into one of these, you can easily find yourself marginalised. How should you go about doing interdisciplinary research?
Do you identify as ‘introvert’? Many PhD students do. In this post from Thesis Whisperer Sharong Yong discusses how this shouldn’t be a barrier.
Only 20% of PhD students finish ‘on time’. Most people finish between 4/5 years after starting, his blog from Prof Inger Mewburn will help you buck the trend
Good advice on how NOT to be an academic when you finish your PhD is pretty thin on the ground. Many supervisors have never done anything else, and/or are not…
New podcast from Elizabeth Lam, for and about PhD graduates finding employment outside academia.
Are you striving for flawlessness and setting high performance standards, accompanied by critical self-evaluations and concerns regarding others’ evaluations? Should you be?