Brianna E Robertson-Kirkland, a PhD Candidate in Music at the University of Glasgow, follows up her post-thesis-submission musings with reflections on the viva process. The Viva is perhaps one of the most intensive exams a student will ever take, not just because it marks the day a PhD researcher will find out if their work … Continue reading GUEST BLOGGER: SURVIVING THE VIVA
GUEST BLOGGER: SGSAH THEORIES OF KNOWLEDGE LECTURE SERIES—DR ANDREW HASS
Dr Andrew Hass of the University of Stirling was a featured lecturer for the SGSAH 2016 Theories of Knowledge Lecture Series, speaking on Sign & Structure. He was gracious enough to provide us with some related muses on "The Coming of Nothing." “Nothing will come of nothing.” We have all heard this phrase before. It … Continue reading GUEST BLOGGER: SGSAH THEORIES OF KNOWLEDGE LECTURE SERIES—DR ANDREW HASS
GUEST BLOGGER: SGSAH SPEAKING MY LANGUAGE—CHINESE TRACK
Caterina Bellinetti, a PhD Candidate at the University of Glasgow, speaks to her experience in the 2015-2016 SGSAH Speaking My Language Programme in Chinese. Learning a language is no easy business, as many of you likely well know. At one point or another, learning a language during a PhD proves possibly even more challenging than the PhD itself, … Continue reading GUEST BLOGGER: SGSAH SPEAKING MY LANGUAGE—CHINESE TRACK
THE DOCTORAL EXPERIENCE: MAKING THE MOST OF YOUR SUMMER
It's Scotland, so one might not know we're approaching the summer months unless they look at a calendar, but indeed: we are! Terms are ending, and that means a suspension of sorts in our normal routines. It's doubtful that any doctoral researcher truly takes a summer off, but in having a slight reprieve, here are a few … Continue reading THE DOCTORAL EXPERIENCE: MAKING THE MOST OF YOUR SUMMER
GUEST BLOGGER: The Later-Ventured PhD
Aileen Shields Branwell Lobban, a PhD Candidate at the University of Stirling, reflects this week on the ups and downs of pursuing doctoral research later on in life. The doctoral researcher has a standard introduction: my name is Aileen, my thesis is on Louise Bennett, a Caribbean performance poet. My next bit, however, is slightly … Continue reading GUEST BLOGGER: The Later-Ventured PhD
GUEST BLOGGER: Completing the PhD—Relief or Grief?
Brianna E Robertson-Kirkland, a PhD Candidate in Music at the University of Glasgow, reflects this week on the mixed feelings that come with the end of the doctoral process. PhD Submission Day: three years’ worth of blood, sweat and tears now becomes more than electronic words on a computer screen. The printing process transforms it … Continue reading GUEST BLOGGER: Completing the PhD—Relief or Grief?
THE DOCTORAL EXPERIENCE: NETWORKING
For some people, it’s the greatest thing ever. For others, it’s tantamount to a curse word. Networking. Whether someone reminds you to “be sure to network!” at your next conference, asks if you have business cards ready to hand out to “broaden your network”, or maybe there’s an event in your diary reminding you of … Continue reading THE DOCTORAL EXPERIENCE: NETWORKING
THE DOCTORAL EXPERIENCE: HOW TO SAY ‘NO’—DISCERNING IN THE FACE OF ‘TOO MUCH’ OPPORTUNITY
Full disclosure: this is an area of the doctoral process—nay, perhaps the life process—that I am still working on. However, that does place me in a particularly sympathetic mindset regarding the struggle of juggling far more things than is advisable for a human being to juggle (and, as a result, learning deliberately how to set … Continue reading THE DOCTORAL EXPERIENCE: HOW TO SAY ‘NO’—DISCERNING IN THE FACE OF ‘TOO MUCH’ OPPORTUNITY
THE DOCTORAL EXPERIENCE: TRANSFERRABLE SKILLS
It’s something of a buzzword; the new “synergy”: Transferrable Skills. We’re meant to identify them, and cultivate them, and position them just so on a CV or present them definitively in an interview—but what are they, really? What does the term mean, what does it entail and encompass: what are these ever-so-valuable Transferrable Skills, save … Continue reading THE DOCTORAL EXPERIENCE: TRANSFERRABLE SKILLS
THE DOCTORAL EXPERIENCE: IMPOSTER SYNDROME
It’s likely you’ve heard about it—in passing, in a lecture, in a TED Talk. It’s even more likely that you’ve experienced it, whether or not you knew what to call it: that nagging feeling that you’re not really equipped to be where you are, doing what you’re doing; that you haven’t quite earned it like … Continue reading THE DOCTORAL EXPERIENCE: IMPOSTER SYNDROME
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