Doing a PhD can be a hard road; supervising a PhD student can be even harder! The following are web resources which I have found useful, both as a student and as a supervisor.
Thesis Whisperer Blackline Master Series
A blackline master ia an A4 sheet with exercises or information designed for use in classrooms. The Thesis Whisperer blackline masters series are materials I use in my workshops with research students. These blackline masters are free to use under creative commons share a-like attribution license. Each blackline master listed below has text, which you can lift for your own purposes, and an attached PDF formatted for easy photocopying.
- Verb Cheat Sheet
- Powerful Paragraphs
- Thinking Bundles
- Using a Matrix to organise your notes
- Creating research questions using a spider diagram
Useful Resources
- A List of Fallacious Arguments
- Academic Phrasebank
- Academic Productivity Hacks
- Advanced research skills course from QUT
- Altmetrics – other ways of measuring research impact
- Cornell note taking template generator
- Exploratree Thinking Diagrams
- How to focus in the age of distraction
- Learning to work (pdf)
- Missed periods and other grammar scares
- Optomising your citations
- Presentation Zen
- Spicy Nodes
- Typography with Tex and Latex
- Writing across Boundaries
- Beyond the PhD
- Leaving academia
- Manchester post graduate careers blog
- Scrivener – a different kind of word processor
- Visualizing.org
Academic coaches and editors
- Dr Completions – academic coaching in Melbourne
- Jo Van Every – academic life coach
- Docs Finishing Early
- Hillary Rettig
Procrastination aids (for when all else fails!)
- Awful Library Books
- Is my thesis hot or not?
- Journal of Universal Rejection
- Piled Higher and Deeper comic
- Research counseling comic
- The most beautiful libraries in the world
If there is a page or service that you think should be included, please email the editor.
