The PhD can be a journey in more than one way. In her last post as the SGSAH resident blogger, Ebba looks back on an unexpected delight of her doctoral years: short-distance travel.
Category: My Research Life
Activist Ethnography in Palestine: The Dilemma of the Researcher’s In-Between Positionality
Manal Shqair, this week’s guest blogger, writes about her doctoral work which engages with the pastoralist women of Masafer Yatta, Palestine. Reflecting on her roots and the positionality of the activist researcher, Manal describes how she came to her research and her experience of carrying out interviews amid violence and marginalisation.
Bidding Farewell to the Giants? On Tensions Between Senior and Junior Academics
This week, resident blogger Ebba wonders if there is a divide between senior and junior academics, what that divide consists of, and whether the universalised value of subverting and challenging the old is always the most fruitful in academia.
Heartbreak and PhDs
A PhD can be a time of immense emotional as well as intellectual change. Following last week's post about falling in love, resident blogger Ebba writes this week about being heartbroken as a PhD student.
Falling in love during the PhD
A PhD can be a time of immense emotional as well as intellectual change. This week's bonus post is about taking the time to fully process how you feel even when it seems easier to postpone these aspects of life until the thesis is out of the way. This is the first of a two-part series about emotion in the PhD by resident blogger Ebba, the second one about heartbreak coming out on 26 December.
What does it really mean when I feel ‘stupid’?
Imposter syndrome is widespread in academia. Resident blogger Ebba gives her perspective on what's actually going on in those moments when you feel like what you're saying is marking you out as a fraud, when you can't make your way into an academic discussion, or plainly when you start to harbour a secret suspicion that you're not smart enough to do a PhD.
The University as Tourist Attraction
Resident blogger Ebba reflects on the tourist/student lifestyle. Are our campuses there to be admired, or are researchers in a unique position to shed light on power and placehood?
Moods and Menstruation During the PhD
This week, resident blogger Ebba writes about an often hidden struggle: the management of menstruation and PMS during the PhD. The reader is advised that the post deals with depression symptoms, pain, and blood.
Armchair experts and saving the world: disillusionment about academia and philosophy
This week, Joyce Fungo reflects on the inequalities that inevitably shape knowledge production within the field of Philosophy and in academia more generally, which became evident to her when she moved from the Philippines to Scotland to do her PhD in 2021.
Dealing with grief during my PhD
Grief is a natural part of life, and many of us will experience it during our PhDs. This week, Katie MacLean writes about the loss of her dad. She shares practical advice for how to cope with grief, and how her research has become a way of honouring the memory of her loved one.
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