Whether you love it or hate it, networking throughout our PhDs is something we’re told to do. This post features some tips and advice from researchers on how to make it a little easier. The word ‘networking’ isn’t exactly a pleasant word for everyone. When I read it, over-eager LinkedIn profiles pop into my head. … Continue reading Networking in Academia
Guest Blogger Catherine (Cait) McCullagh reflects on 'Covid-time' in her final year of her PhD. “This will be perfect for you”, one of my friends writes. They know that I am in the third year of my full-time practice-based research, with the field of my practice – and those who participated in this endeavour with … Continue reading On writing-not-writing, and the ‘slow science’ of ‘Covid-time’
Guest blogger Lorna Wallace shares her experience of a certain difficult audience member... For a lot of PhD researchers, presenting at conferences is one of the most intimidating things to do and understandably so. Presenting your own ideas to a crowd of experts is a daunting prospect for anyone, but doubly so when you already … Continue reading When Conferences Go Wrong: Advice from Someone Who’s Been There
Guest blogger Charlotte Orr provides a brief insight into her MLitt dissertation on the links between the 1831-1832 British cholera pandemic and the professionalisation of medicine and its relevance today. Doctors rightly have a serious amount of cultural cachet: COVID-19 ‘clap for our carers’ has given us all a chance, for a short time on … Continue reading From Contempt to Clapping: British Doctors during Cholera and Coronavirus
Guest Blogger Jessica Reid talks about her experience in lockdown so far. Coronavirus hasn’t affected everyone equally, but it has affected everyone. Even if you’re used to working from home, have all the materials you need, are in your native country, have no caring responsibilities, are free of pre-existing (mental and physical) health conditions, and … Continue reading PhDs, Coronavirus and Emotional Stress
Guest Blogger Lauren Beatty writes about adapting her research on Women’s Golf in Scotland (1945-1995) to lockdown life. January 13th 2020 marked the start of my PhD journey, and my first day based at the British Golf Museum in St Andrews, Scotland. Instantly I was taken under the wing of the Museum team. I could … Continue reading Continuing Collaboration during Covid-19
Our latest Guest Blogger discusses their PhD experience while dealing with OCD and the COVID-19 outbreak. Pandemic, Contagion, Outbreak. I ardently read these books by Robin Cook when I was about twelve years old, dreamt about becoming a virologist studying deadly viruses. This was before I developed OCD. I have been living with OCD for some years now … Continue reading PhD and OCD in the Time of Coronavirus
Guest Blogger Lauren Baker shares her research and internship experience during COVID. There are any number of unexpected encounters when you are part of a PhD programme, but a global pandemic was not something that I had factored into my third year timeline. However, if there is one thing I have taken away from my … Continue reading Craft in the time of COVID
In the nineteenth century, the most frequent form of quarantine was rather different to the lockdown Scotland is experiencing now. Guest Blogger Lindsay Middleton explains: Rather than being confined to their homes and stopping travel, nineteenth-century quarantine largely affected those who engaged in commercial and leisure travel all over the globe. Namely, ships that were … Continue reading Garlic, Potatoes and Swords: Nineteenth-Century Quarantine at Sea
PhD researchers share how they’re making progress with their work despite restrictions posed by the lockdown. For some, being forced to stay indoors and get some work done has worked out to be advantageous. But for others – with caring and/or childcare responsibilities, anxiety, disrupted research trips and halted field research – it’s difficult to … Continue reading PhDs During Lockdown
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