How to Ease Supervision Blues: Three Perspectives
Supervision: too often the stuff of headaches. In the current [...]
Stress: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Say ‘stress’. What comes up for you? For most people [...]
Keeping Up, Meeting Deadlines, and Making Habits Stick
At this time of year, time seems to speed up. [...]
The Art of Focus
Are you in between? At work, but not working? At [...]
Never There, Never Good Enough: How to Escape the Academic Rat Race
Are you there yet? Is the paper you want to [...]
When Pianos Fall from the Sky: How to Deal with Illness and Other Life Disasters while Writing a PhD
Many of the struggles of PhD life pertain to invisible, [...]
‘Feeling Insecure Is Part of the PhD Process’ & How to Minimise Feeling Insecure Obsession
Feeling insecure is part of the PhD process, but it’s [...]
How to Stay Positive in Academia – Strategy 1 Notice What Is Already There
When you enter the world of academia, you enter the [...]
How to write a PhD speedily & (almost) painlessly. Strategy 2: Stop doubting yourself
I am writing a series of blog posts condensing the [...]
Make Being Criticised Your Hobby
From Daisy Goodwin’s ‘Poems to last a lifetime’ [...]