Month: March 2011

This is another post which uses Star Wars to do some philosophising. I just can’t help it.

Once I had to write 60,000 words in 3 months. This is how I did it. It’s not pretty, but it worked.

In my last post I wrote about what to do if you need an academic divorce during your PhD. This time I am considering the flip side of the argument: maintaining a successful student / supervisor relationship. After my ‘divorce’ was finalised my secondary supervisor took over and we began the process of rebuilding and …continue reading.

This guest post is by Gabriel Oguda, who is studying for an MPhil in Health Promotion at the University of Bergen in Norway. Gabriel makes a convincing case for exploring other options when it comes to bibliographic software.

This week’s guest post comes from Dr Sarah-Louise Quinnell, who gained her PhD from the Geography Department at King’s College London in 2010. Here Sarah talks about the delicate matter of ‘supervisory divorce’.

A round up of some interesting reading which might help improve your writing as well

In this post I hone in on the first problem almost every PhD student confronts – how to make sense of all that information out there…

In which I argue that your inner scholar is a bit like Yoda. Yes, really.

In this post Anitra Nottingham, twin sister of Inger, explains the fundamental dilemma of the practice based thesis.