‘How to write a PhD’ with Eva Lantsoght
Dr. Eva Lantsoght received her PhD in civil engineering at TU Delft, the Netherlands, last summer. She talks about her PhD experience, and about how PhD productivity and self-care relate to each other. I am excited to introduce to you dr. Eva Lantsoght. Excited, because she very much lives what I like to call the ‘new’ academic lifestyle. That is, she is an academic who takes very good care of herself, her energy and her time. She practices yoga, she meditates, and if you follow her on twitter you know she is productive and prolific. Her blog PhDTalk, which she [...]
New Guest Blogs
This week is guest blog week! Firstly, my story was featured on Nadine Muller's blog. Nadine's site has some really great PhD advice you should check out. Click on the 'New Academic' heading, and you'll find articles on anything from finding a job after finishing your PhD, to writing your first book, to working in academia with an illness/ disability. You can read my piece here. I talk about my struggles when I fell ill finishing my PhD and the changes I made to finish my PhD with less effort & better results. I wrote this post with people who struggle with energy or health [...]
HappyPhD Contest
Start 2014 Right: Write your PhD in a couple of hours a day! To celebrate the new year I am giving away the HappyPhD self-study course twice. To enter the competition just pop your name and email address in the box below. Also let me know who you are and why you’d like to take the course. That's it! I’m looking forward to hearing from you! I will be announcing the two winners at the end of January. (Contest closes January 30!) For more info on the course have a look at the HappyPhD page or Read Testimonials Wishing you all the [...]
Goodbye 2013
I am not sad to see the end of 2013 approaching. It's been a difficult year. Just when I thought the worst of my health struggles were over, it all started anew this spring. It was no joke, and I have spent most of the year searching for answers, and visiting doctors at home and abroad. The good news: I have found answers. The bad news: it's late-stage Lyme disease. I always thought Lyme was an acute illness that you got after a tickbite. That's what most people, including doctors, think. But that's only half the truth: in some cases [...]
‘How to write a PhD’ with Jørgen Møller
Dr. Jørgen Møller, associate professor in political science at Aarhus University, Denmark shares his PhD experience, and strategies on writing and getting published. Jørgen was the first of our PhD cohort at the EUI to defend his PhD, after a very short three years. He was the first to finish his PhD, while I was the last!* What I remember from our time at the EUI is that Jørgen seemed to have his PhD under control from the very start, something I didn’t quite manage until the latter stages of the PhD. He worked and published steadily, and I remember being [...]
When Supervision Goes Wonky
When I started my PhD I never would have guessed supervision would become a problem. My people skills aren’t too bad, especially compared to those of many an academic I know, and I love professors, the quirkier the better. So far, so good, I thought. But a few short years later, the list of embarrassing supervision stories had grown to astronomic proportions, with the first absolute low resulting in me sending my supervisor an email at 4 o’clock in the morning of a very sleepless night asking him to ‘allow me some air’. I thought I’d never dare face my [...]
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