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.
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 …
Each PhD journey is unique whether we want it or not. We sometimes find ourselves running through smooth valleys and other times struggling to even make one step in a steep hill. Can you completely avoid steep hills? Well, the quick answer is no, but you can definitely plant a …
There are a lot of milestones in the PGR experience, all of which can be pretty intimidating on the first encounter. For me, one of those milestones was completing the ethics application forms. As a self-confessed nerd, who actually enjoys filling out paperwork, even I was anxious after downloading a form that was …
Not sure if this blog is for you? Let’s do a quick test! Think about your PhD (let’s assume you don’t always do that), and see how you feel about these questions: Are you looking for a sense of connection, of comradery – a feeling that “we’re all in this …
Back in October 2015, I was competing for an elusive space in the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. My sport was canoe slalom; a technically, physically, and mentally demanding sport that requires its athletes to navigate a canoe/kayak through a set course of gates, without touching or missing any of them, …
We are back with that time of the year! The time where we gather our drafts together and start on to work towards consolidating everything we have worked for an entire year. It is never easy, especially for the first years who no doubt have heard of the annual review …
I completed my master’s degree at the University of Edinburgh in 2018. Although it was only one year long, I would like to say it was the most wonderful period in my life. I met several people from different countries, and some of them even accompanied by their family members. …
The way that we find and consume information is constantly changing – from traditional (such as watching television) through online searches (think of Google) to digital (mobile apps). These changes are also having some significant effects on research, as well as everywhere else. Traditionally, researchers disseminate their work by attending …
