In this category you can find reflections, tips and advice for any stage of your PhD from First Year Annual Reviews to Online Recruitment, Tutoring and Vivas. You can also find how to join exciting PGR reps initiatives, staying connected with the PGR community.
“Online surveys have become an increasingly popular method for collecting data quickly and inexpensively. However, one of the major drawbacks of online surveys is the presence of bots. Bots are automated programs that can complete surveys, skewing the data and compromising the integrity of the results. When I ran my …
It’s the start of a new academic year, where we welcome the new PhDs and the PhD veterans amongst us back into the fray of research and tutoring. Navigating the year ahead requires the ability for us all to be able to communicate with the school. And for this, we …
“Embarking on a doctoral journey is an exciting yet challenging endeavor, filled with numerous milestones and new experiences. Among these experiences, attending academic conferences as a PhD student holds a unique place. However, for many PhD students, the exhilaration of presenting their work at these conferences is accompanied by persistent …
We have really appreciated the opportunities to learn about the work that is happening across the PGR cohort with our newest blog series, Tell Us About Your Methodology. Grab a cup of tea and settle down with our latest instalment as we talk with 1st year PhD candidate, Liam Gilchrist …
The PhD journey can be lonely, especially at the beginning when everything feels uncertain and overwhelming. Peer support is crucial at this time, providing emotional support, encouragement and feedback. In this article, Rhea and Isaac share how they found solidarity during their PhD journeys. Rhea, a PhD student moving to …
Another month, another methodology. We have loved talking to our friends and colleagues on the PGR cohort to find out more about their research, and this instalment in our blog series, Tell Us About Your Methodology, is no different. Here is our interview with 2nd year PhD candidate, Koraima Sotomayor-Enriquez …
New Year 2020 (little did I know the isolation that was coming), I spent the best part of a week, a rare week off work, filling in funding applications, stressing about the deadlines and the fact that I needed references from people who were themselves on holiday. I knew I …
We love hearing about other peoples’ research and finding out about new methodologies is always an exciting prospect. It’s time to shine a spotlight on some of the groundbreaking methodologies that we have heard are being used within our own PGR cohort! Join us as we start our new blog …
PhD life is perceived to be all about research and knowledge and round table discussions about high-end intellectual ideas and what not. But is it though?!? This blog talks about my PhD journey so far, and how I managed or tried to manage expectations and the disasters that followed in …
This blog post is a guide for using R for reproducible data processing and analysis. Today we will work with this totally legitimate longitudinal dataset (see Disclaimer below). The dataset includes a measure of enjoyment for my previous pun blog post, a very reliable questionnaire “Rand_Q”, enjoyment of puns, whilst …
