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Tag: career

So, what will I do after I finish my PhD?

There is a question I get all the time. Every year, for the past four years, someone has asked me some version of this mystifying question. “But what will you do when you finish your PhD?” “So obviously you’re going to teach at the university when you finish?” “Tell me, have you got a plan […]

20 July 2025 0

Why they tell you not to work full-time when doing a PhD

Listen, they did warn me. In the first week or so of starting my PhD at the University of Edinburgh, the zoom orientation room was filled with eager, new doctoral students. It was 2021, right in the midst of the COVID lockdowns, each of us glued to little screens, excited to jump into the doctoral […]

18 July 2024 0

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