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.
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 …
Welcome back intrepid systematic meta fans. In the last exciting post, we covered the steps involved in planning review studies. This sequel post will guide us through the next steps, which involves, conducting searches, the screening and selection of studies, data extraction, quality assessment, analysis (and synthesis), and finally reporting. …
In this special 2-part blog post, our authors will take us on a detailed guide of conducting systematic reviews and meta-analyses. To any of you readers who are looking at conducting such reviews for the first time, and indeed those who wish to brush up and revise the processes involved; …
It’s a new academic year and we want to say “welcome (back) to our PGR cohort”! Research Bow is a platform by PGRs for PGRs, and as such our contributors are always writing blogs that encompass the full range of experiences and milestones that are part of the post graduate researcher’s …
Doing a PhD is a great challenge that requires discipline, vision, organization, motivation and passion. Throughout the three, four, or more years of the program, you will focus on a single project, trying to improve it, whilst learning more about the topic, and learning how to explain and defend every …
Here I am, working my way through the 2nd year of the PhD studies at the scary time where we might be transitioning from face masks to gas masks, in addition to the more usual PhD stressors of collecting data, tutoring and writing ethics applications (apologies, making inappropriate jokes is …
First ask yourself “why do you want to tutor?” Is it to gain a new experience? Improve your teaching skills? Money? Accreditation? Once you have your ‘why’ think about your ‘when and how much’. The new semester has started and so has tutoring within the School of Health in Social …
