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.
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.
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.
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'.
Dialogue is vital to the research community. In our ‘In Conversation With’ series, resident blogger Ebba explores different topics with other researchers and professionals in a dialogue format. This week, she speaks to journalist and Glasgow graduate Elysia Taylor-Hearn about how to ask good questions at conferences and other events where academics interact with each other’s work in person.
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.
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.
Guest blogger Julia Vallius writes about how she tackled one of the most difficult things a PhD student can go through within their project: changing supervisors. She shares the thought process behind this decision and how instigating this change empowered her and helped her project move forward.
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.
Dialogue is vital to the research community. In the fourth part of our ‘In conversation with’ series, resident blogger Ebba discusses historical fiction with Alyssa Benedetto, a PhD researcher combining the study of medieval history with creative writing and intersectional feminism.
