April 20, 2012

Keynote dress packed and ready to fly….

The Thesis Whisperer is off to the UK – but she needs some packing advice!

April 16, 2012

What not to wear: the academic edition

What exactly does one wear when giving a Keynote Lecture?

Deciding what to wear is not easy when you are an academic; we don’t have the luxury of suit-as-uniform like our counterparts in the corporate world. We often have to front classrooms full of people barely out of puberty and then go to a committee meeting….

April 12, 2012

Things they don’t tell you about writing

Becoming a writer is also a bit like becoming a parent. It’s not until you have walked the floor with a screaming infant at 4am that you can truly understand what all the talk about ‘tiredness’ is about. But there are many aspects of parenting that no one tells you – or doesn’t think to mention. Here are some of them.

April 10, 2012

A short hiatus for chocolate

Here in Australia we eat chocolate eggs and take a rather long break for Easter. The Thesis Whisperer will resume transmission on Thursday, by which time blood sugar levels will hopefully have returned to normal!    

April 5, 2012

I’ll have what she’s having: hottie research envy

“I can’t believe you are doing a PhD in something that doesn’t even exist!” she yelled.

April 2, 2012

Book Review: Mapping your Thesis

This book has become my ultimate authority on everything thesis writing related. My copy is now well thumbed – but I have still not read every page…