Many PhD researchers decide to document their PhD research, but what about the PhD journey itself? This week, Emma shares how she's capturing #phdlife through a durational digital performance she calls 'Snippets of a PhD'...
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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!
Writing a thesis on public transport
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.
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.
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'.
Historical Fiction and the History Discipline: In Conversation with Alyssa Benedetto
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.
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.
Teaching & being taught; perfectionism & AI
Resident blogger Ebba reflects on two sides of the same coin: teaching and being taught. She writes about the authority and meaning of the teaching figure in the classroom, the educator's perceived power to exercise control over students' written and spoken voice, and of the potential in developments surrounding AI engines to transform the role of education.
Navigating Disability and Chronic Illness During Your PhD: A Conversation
Dialogue is vital to the research community. This week, PhD researchers Emma McCabe and Eeva Savolainen speak about navigating PhD life with disability and chronic illness, the labour of locating and gaining access to health resources, and the importance of connection and solidarity among chronically ill and/or disabled scholars.
On Finding the Right Time to Submit
How can you mark the moment of thesis submission? Celebrating with friends and family is the obvious choice, but what if you want to add a little whimsy and show just how nerdy you can get about your research? Dr Maike Dinger, this week’s guest blogger, offers one option: find a date that connects to your research topic.
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