This week, Resident Blogger Emma unpacks everything you need to know about academic publishing...
Category: Practical Guide
On Side Projects: How Much is Too Much? And Other Questions to Consider
This week, Resident Blogger Emma talks about side projects: When should I take them on, and when should I leave them be?....
Introducing the ‘Scottish 17th Century Research Group’ – Not Just for Historians!
Building a Cross-disciplinary PGR Network – and Why You Might Want To!
Back to Basics: Conferences, Presentations, Networking – Oh My!
This week, Resident Blogger Emma prepares for her very first conference as a PhD Researcher, reflecting back on mistakes from her first conference experience prior to the PhD...
Debunking the Progression: Here’s Why it Really Matters
End-of-year progressions, annual reviews, and 'updates' hang over the heads of many researchers this month. This week, Resident Blogger Emma shares her insights on the Annual Progression and why you should take it seriously...
Beyond the Thesis: Engaging Ways to Share Your Research
If you’re looking for practical tips and inspiration on how to share your research—whether beyond your supervisory team or outside the academic sphere altogether—read on!
‘Become the reviewer’ and other advice for dealing with feedback
Receiving and giving feedback is a central aspect of academia, and we all need to develop strategies to deal with this aspect of the PhD experience. With a view to understanding the world of feedback and reviews as its own distinct corner of our research culture, resident blogger Ebba shares her advice for how to behave in situations involving feedback and what concrete things researchers can do to gain familiarity with the world of feedback and reviews.
Creative Writing and Your PhD
Resident blogger Ebba writes this week about how creative writing can help researchers in their work, be it in terms of taking writing advice from creative writing professionals, practising empathy in their work, or exploring how their research assumptions play out 'in action'.
The Best Advice You’ll Ever Receive?
Start off 2025 not with a resolution, but with a blog post that has the potential to change how you think about yourself and the place of other people's advice in your life.
Welcome to the Real World: Expectations and Self-Doubt in Your PhD
In this week's blog, Mengyuan Yue shares her wisdom and advice for making the transition from a Master's degree to a PhD, rethinking "perfection", and trusting yourself and your work.
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