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PhD Self-Care Project: Why Do I Want a PhD?
I have spent the first half of my candidature trying to survive the work that I was doing, instead of enjoying it. The goal now is to stop dreading the work and start enjoying it, including the countless drafts to be re-written, the jitters at each conference presentation to be delivered, the frequent bouts of insecurity […]
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Re-committing to a Healthy Postgraduate Life
Last month I was given the opportunity to contribute to the Instagram account (@uofastudentwellbeing) by covering the various activities organized by the University’s Student Health and Wellbeing Team for O Week. The entire week was packed with fantastic games and provided plenty of health tips! Each day of the week focused on different aspects of […]
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Self-Care as a Postgraduate Student
I caught up with my other PhD student friends recently, which was really nice. Most of us are well and truly past the halfway mark of our research projects and sometimes find ourselves quite isolated from everyone else. We forget how important social connection is sometimes when you are a PhD student who is not working […]
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Conference Presentations: Look for the Smilers and Nodders
A component of the academic life requires one to share and communicate the findings of your individual research. In other words, I have to go out there and present my work at conferences. I know there are other more creative ways to share my research, which includes outreach work such as school visits and talks. […]
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PhD Students Reminding Themselves Not to Quit
Doctoral research can be very isolating at times, even when your research is part of a collaborative team. There are periods when you just have to sit down and write. Sometimes these periods are for weeks and months. I usually welcome some peaceful and solitary time by myself. Maybe it’s because I am at the […]
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Publishing Paranoia
I am tasked with finishing the final draft for my very first manuscript. I have never submitted any academic work for publishing before, and I am starting to realise that I am getting very good at procrastinating. Why do I keep delaying it? To be honest, it is because I am getting really fearful of […]
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How not to waste a day on a literature review
I recently spent an entire day researching and reading articles for an assignment, and by the end of the day, I didn’t feel much closer to starting the assignment than I did at the start of the day. So I decided I should reflect on how not to waste an entire day on a literature […]
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She believed she could, so she did
I officially started my PhD journey 12 months ago. I have always dreamed of pursuing higher degree research, but there always seemed to be an easy excuse to put that dream aside. First, there was the feeling that I was too old to go back to university. What would my friends say? All my female […]
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What’s it Like Being a Postgraduate?
Four years of undergraduate whizzed by. Before I knew it, I was clutching a parchment proclaiming my achievement—Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Creative Writing—after successfully not tripping in front of hundreds of people. Everything inside me rebelled against graduating and going out into the real world, so I took the only logical path left for a desperate […]
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Honours Year + Postgraduate Study – How Does It Work?
It’s coming towards the end of term 3 and exams are looming. It’s around this time of year that I begin to ponder my future, and given that I am now half-way through my bachelor’s degree, I have been looking into doing honours, and my potential future as an academic is less of a far-off-into-the-distance […]
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