The Thesis Whisperer is a newspaper style blog, dedicated to the topic of doing a PhD and completing a dissertation. The Thesis Whisperer is managed and edited by Associate Professor Inger Mewburn, director of research training at the Australian National University. This blog is maintained with my own time and money and is run on a ‘not for loss’ model.
If you love the Thesis Whisperer, there are a number of ways to support our work: read more here. One think you can do is think about joining my $1 a month Patreon channel (which also gives you access to Thesis Whisperer TV on Youtube).
Would you like to write for the Whisperer? Here’s our editorial guidelines
We only accept posts from people who have had the experience of doing a PhD, or working in a professional capacity with research students.
- We want to be concise. PhD students have to do a lot of reading so posts are around 1000 words in length.
- We want to learn from people’s stories about doing a research degree, but we don’t need to hear about your topic or methods. There’s enough journals out there for that.
- We are not a ‘how to’ guide to doing a thesis, but we are happy to dish out practical tips and techniques that work for us.
- We don’t want to just talk about writing – successfully finishing a dissertation is about more than that. But we don’t want to be sued, so we are going to always keep it nice.
- We want to stimulate conversations, so our posts will always be opinionated (without being obnoxious).
- We want to hear your voice. Doing a thesis can take the fun out of anyone’s writing. This is a place you can relax because there is no examiner watching.
If you write for us, we can’t pay you, but we promise to never rip off your work and present it as our own. If you want to write for us it is because you have an urge to share your experience and help others so it may travel further than you think (note the licensing arrangements below).
Interested? Email inger.mewburn@anu.edu.au, preferably with a sample piece of around 1000 words. It speeds up the publication process if you include a short bio of no more than 150 words with your piece. The bio should include a URL to somewhere readers can find out more about you.
The blog has around 100,000 follower reach, which is power to persuade and influence. I do not ever abuse this power. Readers trust me because I have spent years and years building my reputation for good taste through strict editing policies. I am not here to provide a free advertising service. While I welcome posts about your experience of doing a PhD (or helping others to do a PhD), if you want me to review your book/website/online course/product/app/service, be prepared for me to say ‘no’ if I don’t think it’s great.
Ask me anything!
If you want to suggest a post topic, or ask a question of the Thesis Whisperer, please fill in the contact form below. It’s my policy to write back to everyone who contacts me for advice. Unfortunately I can only offer general advice on issues like productivity and supervision, I cannot offer individually tailored assistance on your project (sorry!). However, if you are struggling with a specific project issue that I think other students would also like to read about, my answer to you will become a blog post and you get to read it first!
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Who is the Thesis Whisperer?
My name is Dr Inger Mewburn. I’ve been specialising in research education since 2006. I am currently the Director of Research Training at The Australian National University where I run the central transferable skills program and help to shape the ANU research student experience.
I have a background as a designer and a researcher. For over a decade I have worked with PhD students and early career researchers to develop their professional skills. Aside from editing and contributing to the Thesis Whisperer, I write scholarly papers, books and book chapters about research student experiences, with a special interest in the digital practices of academics. I am a regular guest speaker at other universities and do media interviews on request.
I do supervise a small number of PhD and Masters students. I am interested in working with people who want to research graduate student issues, especially employability and social scientists wanting to explore machine learning methods in the social sciences (please read the ANU prospective student page before contacting me about study options).
For further information on my work, a selection from my resume is below. You can view my Linkedin profile, my Amazon author page, or contact me by email via the online form above. For more details on my scholarly work please visit my Google Scholar page or my OrcidID.
I am available for keynotes and interviews: please email me on inger.mewburn@anu.edu.au. I do workshops on post PhD employability, publishing, writing, social media, communication and academic survival skills at other universities, for a fee. If you are interested in having me visit your university, see the Training page.
Qualifications
- “Constructing Bodies: gesture speech and representation at work in Architecture classrooms”, Ph.D, University of Melbourne, (2009). Winner of the John Grice award for best thesis in the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning.
- “Digital architectures and the presence of the virtual”, MPhil RMIT University, (2005).
- Post-graduate certificate in Spatial Information Architecture, RMIT University (2001).
- Certificate IV in training and assessment, RMIT University (1999).
- Bachelor of Architecture (with Honours), RMIT University (Awarded 1997).
Awards, grants and prizes
- Vice Chancellor’s award for innovation and excellence in service, November 2017.
- CSIRO ‘On Prime’ commercialisation program prize, 2017 and 2018
- Leader: $50,000 Discovery Translation Fund grant from Canberra Innovation Network, 2017
- Leader: Department of Industry research grant to investigate the application of machine learning to explore PhD employability and the ‘hidden job market’ for graduates, 2015 – 2016. $80,000
- Leader: ARUP engineering research grant to explore the integration of digital badges in engineering contexts, 2014 ($6000)
- Leader: Office of Learning and Teaching seed grant to explore the use of digital badge technology in doctoral pedagogy, 2014 ($40,000)
- Best concise paper, “Badge trouble: implementing digital badges at the Australian National University, ASCILITE conference, Wellington, 2014.
- Leader: ANU gender institute grant to explore PhD student attrition, 2013 ($1500)
- John Grice award for best thesis in the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, University of Melbourne, 2009. ($3000)
- Best paper award, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, University of Melbourne, 2008 ($3000)
- Melbourne research scholarship, University of Melbourne, 2006-2008. ($24,000 PA)
- Creative research industries CRC award for creative explorations, 2003. ($3000)
Blogging
At time of writing the blog has over half a million words of content, 100,000 followers over 4 social media channels, been viewed over 7 million times with over 15 thousand comments. The blog has a truly global reach, with readers located all over the world.
Books:
- (Forthcoming, December 2018) Mewburn, I., Lehmann, S. Firth, K (2019) Your academic writing trouble and how to fix it, Open University Press, Maidenhead.
- Mewburn, I (2017) How to be an academic, New South Press, Sydney
- Lupton, D, Mewburn, I and Thomson, P (2017) The Digital Academic: critical perspectives on digital technologies in higher education, Routledge, London.
- McMaster, C, Whitburn, B, Mewburn, I and Murphy, C (2017) Postgraduate study in Australia: surviving and succeeding, Peter Lang, Amsterdam.
Book Chapters:
- Freund, K., Kizimchuk, S., Zapasnik, J., Esteves, K. and I.Mewburn (2017) A Labour of Love? A Critical Examination of the ‘Labour Icebergs’ of Massive Open Online Course in Lutpon, D., Thomson, P. and Mewburn, I. (eds) The Digital Academic: critical perspectives on digital technologies in higher education, Routledge, London.
- Mewburn, I. & Thomson, P. (2017) Towards an academic self? Blogging during the doctorate, in Lutpon, D., Thomson, P. and Mewburn, I. (eds) The Digital Academic: critical perspectives on digital technologies in higher education, Routledge, London.
- Mewburn, I. & Thomson, P. (2016) Social media and academic publishing, in Selwyn, N (ed), The BERA/SAGE Handbook of Educational Research, Sage, London.
- Corbett, J., Macintyre, A. & Mewburn, I. (2014), Functional Dystopia: Diversity, Contestability and New Media in the Academy, in Margaret Thornton (ed.), Through a Glass Darkly: The Social Sciences Look at the Neoliberal University, ANU Press, Canberra, pp. 195-208.
- Mewburn, I. (2012) Creative doctoral work, in Carey Denholm and Terry Evans (ed.), Doctorates down-under: keys to successful doctoral study in Australia and Aotearoa, New Zealand (2nd ed), Australian Council for Educational Research Press, Melbourne Australia, pp. 126-135.
- Mewburn, I., Osborne, L. & Caldwell, G. 2014, ‘Shut up & Write! Some surprising uses of cafes and crowds in doctoral writing’, in Claire Aitchison and Cally Guerin (ed.), Writing Groups for Doctoral Education and Beyond: Innovations in practice and theory, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, Abingdon and New York, pp. 218-232.
- Mewburn, I. and Barnacle, R. (2010) Razzle Dazzle: making a thesis text in creative practice based research, in Joy Higgs et al (eds) Researching Practice: a discourse on methodologies. Rotterdam, Holland: Sense Publishers.
- Mewburn, I (2008) Through the looking glass and into the design studio, in Pia Ednie-Brown (ed.) Plastic Green: designing for environmental transformation, RMIT Press, Melbourne Australia.
- Ednie-Brown, P. and Mewburn, I. (2006) Vibrating with Difference: Laughter and the intimate distance between us, in Jillian Hamilton (Ed.), Intimate Transactions: Art, Exhibition and Interaction Within Distributed Network Environments, ACID Press, Brisbane.
Journal papers
- Mewburn, I., Grant, W., Suominen, H. & Kizimchuk, S. (2018) A machine learning analysis of the non- academic employment opportunities for Ph.D Graduates in Australia, Higher Education Policy,
- Mewburn, I. (2017) A PhD shouldn’t look like it’s fun: an actor-network theory analysis of digital badges, Student engagement in Higher education, 1(2), 40-54.
- Trembath, J. & Mewburn, I. (2017) The role of technology in the making of a Thesis Whisperer, The Unfamiliar, 7(1), 14 – 26.
- Pitt, R. & Mewburn, I. (2016) Academic superheroes? A critical analysis of academic job descriptions, Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 38(1), 88 – 101.
- Amayo Caldwell, G., Osborne, L., Nottingham, A. & Mewburn, I. (2015) Connecting the Space between Design and Research: Explorations in participatory research supervision, Education Philosophy and Theory, 48(13), 1352 – 1367.
- Amayo Caldwell, G., Osborne, L., Mewburn, I. & Crowther, P. (2015) Guerrillas in the (Urban) midst: developing and using creative research methods and ‘guerrilla research tactics’, Journal of Urban Technology, 22 (3), 21 –
- Mewburn, I. & Thompson, P. (2013) Why do academics blog? An analysis of audiences, purposes and challenges, Studies in Higher Education, 38(8), 1105 – 1119.
- Mewburn, I., Tokareva, E. & Cuthbert, D. (2014) “These are issues that should not be raised in black and white”: the culture of progress reporting and the doctorate, Higher Education Research and Development, 33(3), 510-522.
- Mewburn, I., Cuthbert, D. & Tokareva, E. (2014) Experiencing the progress report: an analysis of gender and administration in doctoral candidature, Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 36 (2), 155-171.
- Mewburn, I. (2011) Troubling talk: assembling the PhD candidate, Studies in Continuing Education, 33(3), 321-332.
- Mewburn, I. (2011), Lost in translation: Reconsidering reflective practice and design studio pedagogy, Arts and Humanities in Higher Education, 11 (4), 363-379.
- Barnacle, R. & Mewburn, I. (2010) Learning networks and the journey of ‘becoming doctor’, Studies in Higher Education, 35 (4), 433-444.
Commissioned reports
- Mewburn, I, Grant, W and Souminen, H (2016) Tracking Trends in industry demand for Australia’s advanced research workforce, Department of Industry, Canberra, Australia.
- Mewburn, I and Trembath, J.L (2015) The culture of sharing at Arup: A report on the use of internal social software systems, Arup Engineering, Sydney, Australia.
Peer reviewed conference papers
- Mewburn, I., Freund, K. & Rutherford, E. (2014) Badge trouble: piloting open badges at the Australian National University, Rhetoric and Reality: Critical perspectives on educational technology, ed. B Hegarty, J McDonald, SK Loke, ASCILITE: Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education, Dunedin New Zealand, pp. 643-648.
- Kizimchuk, S, Freund, K, Prescott, M et al 2016, ‘Collective effervescence: Designing MOOCs for emotion and community’, 33rd International Conference of Innovation, Practice and Research in the Use of Educational Technologies in Tertiary Education, ASCILITE Adelaide 2016, ed. S. Barker, S. Dawson, A. Pardo, and C. Colvin, University of South Australia, Australia, pp. 348-353.
- Maher, A. and Mewburn, I. 2007, ‘An economy of knowledge: research, architectural practice and knowledge (in) translation’, in Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference Proceedings, United States, 3 – 6 October 2007, pp. 258-269.
Selected expert Commentary
- Mewburn, I. and Thomson, P. (12/12/2013) ‘Academic blogging is part of a complex online academic attention economy, leading to unprecedented readership’. London School of Economics Impact blog
- Mewburn, I. and Thomson, P. (3/12/2013) ‘Why do academics blog? It’s not for public outreach new research suggests’, The Guardian
- Mewburn, I (27/09/2012) ‘Academics behaving badly: Universities and online reputations’, The Conversation
- Mewburn, I (14/06/2015) ‘What’s up with Universities? Wackademia or just grumpy old academics?’, The Conversation, 14/06/2012. Retrieved 19/07/2015 from https://theconversation.com/whats-up-with-universities-whackademia-or-just-grumpy-old-academics-7602
- Mewburn, I (11/06/2012). ‘On the right side of the digital divide’, New Scientist. Retrieved 17/07/2015
Hi, it’s great to see that you do research on research education. I am doing my PhD on employability of doctoral researchers in social sciences:)
We should talk! Sounds like your research would be very interesting.
I am lucky enough to be an academic in a primarily administrative unit (School of Graduate Research). My teaching load is light so I can concentrate on doing research aimed at improving the experience of PhD and masters students. So far I have not met anyone else, other than my colleague Dr Barnacle, who has a full time role like this.
That’s a great job to have! I hope my research topic will be useful, and will help to shape policy and practice in the UK doctoral education (let’s be ambitious:). I have found several PhDs doing research on researchers. Maybe we should organise a doctoral sonsortium on this:)
Hi,
Thanks for tweeting about my new blog (http://explorationsofstyle.wordpress.com/). The mention led me back here. I hadn’t seen your site before, and it seems fabulous. Thesis writing is one of my interests, and I look forward to learning more from you in future posts. Thanks again!
Why thank you 🙂 I’m loving your work too – there’s now a link on my side bar under services and support
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Hi!
I’ve just found your blog, love it & wish I’d known about it earlier. I’m working on a PhD about my favourite topic: Pain! I also blog regularly at http://healthskills.wordpress.com – on the topic: Pain! Actually, self management of chronic pain, and I write for health professionals working with people who have chronic pain. My research uses grounded theory to explain how people with chronic pain who live well in the community manage to do so without needing to see people like me.
cheers
Bronnie
So good to make contact with you Inger, and to discover the rich resource that is The Thesis Whisperer. I look forward to many future interactions.
Liz Tynan, JCU Graduate Research School, Townsville
Thank you so much for this site. I am currently writing my PhD thesis and have spent the weekend reading previous posts and wishing I’d found you sooner.
You’re welcome!
I’m so glad to have found you near the start of my PhD! Even though we seem to be in vastly different fields (I’m researching the social behaviour and personality of captive cheetahs), I have found your posts both useful and interesting and I’m sure they will come in very handy when I’m writing my thesis and other papers. I also have a blog at http://virtual-doc.salford.ac.uk/cheetahphd.
Looking forward to future posts!
What an excellent topic, Carly! #Respect
Grouse blog… I’m about to link to the blog to all our Fac Ed PhD students via my fortnightly Graduate Studies Bulletin – so expect more traffic. Great to meet you last week – look forward to more of your awesomeness.
Dear Inger,
hello! I just found your site through Twitter, and it’s really great.
I am a former tenured prof and department head, based in the U.S., and I have launched a new site and blog, “The Professor Is In.,” to provide what I call “BS-free advising for grad school, the job market, and tenure.”
It’s at: http://www.theprofessorisin.com.
I am wondering if you’d be kind enough to visit my site and consider listing it among the illustrious company of excellent blogs on your blogroll? I’d like to be in touch about contributing as well! Thanks for your excellent work!
Karen Kelsky, Ph.D.
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Hi Inger,
I found your blog yesterday during my web ramblings. What a wonderful site. As someone said in a comment earlier, I wish I had found this blog a few months ago when I was stuck with my thesis. But even having now completed it, it is rewarding reading this blog. I already mentioned it in a post on my blog, but I will also personally recommend it to friends. I could probably give a modest contribution too at some point. Carry on this awesome work. All the best, Hilra
Thanks so much – glad to hear you found us and love to publish something soon if you’d like to write for us.
Yes, I’d love to 😉
I have quite a number of publications and authored four books. I would like to convert my publications into a PhD degree. I am currently a Senior law lecturer at University of Venda, South Africa. My publications are found in google “Hlako Jacob choma
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This is a great idea. I am a ‘mature’ PhD candidate (over 50) who has a great deal of expertise in my field. I have only started the literature review and it is already making me crazy…. I only know some theory but know it extremely well. I am finding errors or misunderstandings in papers, excessive jargon and cliches in many papers, and a big gap between what I read and current practice. Am I alone in finding this?
As such, I look forward to reading this blog in the future.
I think it’s a sign that you have highly developed solid critical capacities when you can see the gaps and holes with more ease. Thanks for coming by 🙂
My sister who has just commenced her PhD studies was alerted to this blog. I, who have been studying for my PhD for 2 and a half years, had never heard of it! Great to find it, and perhaps add my voice to the sidebar: Jessplainsong’s Research Blog http://jessplainsong.wordpress.com. Always a great read, adding to my procrastination moments!
Thanks Jess! We have added you to the side bar under student blogs 🙂
I am a docoral student working on my dissertation and often blog about my topics (disordered eating, risky sexual activity and substance use, and adoelscent developmnet) on my site! I am adding this helpful site to my blogroll, and hope you might consider posting mine!
I have only just discovered this recently on Google Search. This has been an interesting read, that I come back to from time to time. I’m at the end of my 2nd year of my PhD, and do write from time to time at: http://www.jasminezheng.com . Would be good to be added to the community of PhD students from everywhere.
HI I’m just beginning my Doctorate of Education. Im planning on working on it part time over 6 years -which makes things a bit tricky! I’d love to join and interact with the community here as I’m finding it hard to know where to start! Any advice or posts that might be useful to me would be gratefully accepted !
PS I’m a Melbournite too :0)
Hi and welcome 🙂 I am on holiday at the moment; the blog normally comes out twice a week and most interaction happens on the current post. There are a list of popular posts under that heading on the top menu bar. Since you are in melbourne you are most welcome to attend the ‘shut up and write’ sessions we have each week at RMIT: https://thethesiswhisperer.wordpress.com/2011/06/14/shut-up-and-write/
A quick comment to say thanks for being a great read in 2011! I sometimes write about the PhD life on my blog and so it’s always useful to find similarily-themed blogs for inspiration and interesting thoughts. I’ve just updated my links page as a “thank you” to all the blogs that have inspired me this year – one of the best things about blogging i find lots of other fun blogs – and I included your site. Looking forwards to more interesting posts in 2012. Happy New Year!
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hello dr. mewburn,
Thank you so much for your website. I met it through your twitter. I am from Turkey and doing Phd in the UK. After I met your website, I looked for blogs and websites on PhD, just like yours, in Turkish, for those who are not good at reading and understanding in English very well. I found yours very helpful, but I couldn’t find any website like yours in Turkish. So, I decided to write a blog on which I share my experiences and ideas on Phd. Well, I haven’t finished my PhD yet, so I can only talk about the PhD process and some helpful tips. Thank you for the inspiration! My blog is http://tezenzi.wordpress.com/
Hello, my blog is http://www.adunokupe.blogspot.com
I’ll love to write too, you can have a view of my blog to see my style – although I write on a wide variety of topics.
My phd is on Leadership within the Tourism Industry.
Came across your blog via twitter’s #phd chat field and it’s very useful!
Thank you for being encouraging.
Hi Inger,
I attended your seminar at ANU this morning and was reassured and inspired. Thanks! I’m in my first year of PhD across visual arts and Indonesian studies, whilst also looking after my 3 kids under 6. Preschool hours and after bedtime are my workings hours and, in between paraysing bouts of self doubt, I’ve been telling myself this would be enough so long as I am efficient. Now I am armed with your practical tool box, your own example, and encouraging stats about productivity of PhD students, I feel bolstered again. I can do this!
Oh, and I also have a blog (this was a strategy do keep writing!) http://www.ellydotkent.blogspot.com
Thank you!
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I am glad to have found this blog. I am currently entering the fifth year of a History PhD at a Canadian university. Your blog is very informative and encouraging– I will definitely continue to check it out as I work towards that final dissertation ‘push.’
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cool blog…… that is so important for all peoples
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What a fantastic blog. I will send many a student your way!
Thanks so much!
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Hello Inger!
I’d like to add my vote of thanks to those expressed above, and wonder if you could add my blog (which is still in its infancy so treat it gently, please!) to the list. My thesis has morphed into an attempt to show how respect and self-respect, two sides of the same coin, are human survival tools: we need to develop them! My blog’s at http://www.gamanrad.wordpress.com – thanks again. Best, Lucy
This is me reminding you (kindly!) to add my blog to your list. Thanks for this amazing site and for your work!
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A truly inspirational presentation and masterclass at our Research Week at Sydney Nursing School of The University of Sydney. Thank you!
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Dear Ingrid et al,
Wondering if anyone has any suggestions, or if other students have been in similar straits in AU, and how they proceeded….and what leverage (if any) a PhD student has in situations like this?
I am hoping that people have some suggestions for me. I am one year into my PhD (part time enrolled) and have made excellent progress on my project (yes I have that in writing from sups….) and preparing for an early confirmation. Just when I tried to access funding, I was informed that my school had “no money”. When I say no money, I mean zilch nada and I am expected to fund my project expenses! My project involves travel and data collection abroad and although I don’t have a budget yet….I imagine it would be in the realm of 10-15 K…..
I am in the process of taking this up the chain but I am quite upset. I am at an Australian university as a domestic student. I prepared a short project proposal 6 mos into my candidature which was approved by my sups…and now my school is claiming they have no money. It seems like the admin is trying to lay the blame on my sups (who are excellent)…I don’t know what went wrong with funding….my sups say they didn’t know they were supposed to pay for my project, the admin say that they were, etc, it is clearly indicated on the university website that direct research costs (including travel!) are paid by the school….my guess is that this is not my sups fault although they seem to be getting blamed for taking me on….Anyway, as I await for a verdict with the office of research on what can be done….I am obviously concerned. I am not sure what bargaining chips I have. This university is highly ranked for research, one of the top in the world…..and they clearly (in writing) inform students that the enrolling school pays for the direct research costs. (except apparently for me)…..Anyone know what kind of bargaining chips I have? Oh, there was a suggestion for “changing my project” to something more local but I have been working on this now for over 1 year….and I chose this project …t..to start all over on something that may cost less and delay my phD for another year does not seem fair….Suggestions Please!!!!!!!!!!!!! My project is in the Social Sciences.
I should also say that I believe there has been some loses of funding etc in the past year from one of their streams but I was never informed this would affect my project funding. My project is something that I designed so there is no grants or anything else associated with it, nor any other students or researchers working on it other than me….
Thank you!
While I agree with M-H, it’s unusual for a university to promise to cover all costs unless a project is externally funded. Usually the uni defines ‘costs’ as office space, computer, Internet access, library and supervision. Read the fine print of the uni policy carefully and, if they do make more promises than this, by all means hold their feet to the fire. Your student organisation will have professional advocates who can help you with this. Good luck!
Thanks Inger. Well this is what it says on their website
Research Costs
The School/Institute you enrol through at XUni is responsible for meeting all ‘direct research costs’ that are necessary to undertake your RHD project. This includes:
access to resources or facilities at XUni or other organisations in Australia or overseas;
travel to complete fieldwork, collect data, or to visit libraries or other repositories;
training in techniques; and
necessary coursework undertaken outside the School/Institute.
Funding may be available for supplementary research that is not essential to your project but will enhance your research experience at XUni
….and the graduate school has confirmed this to me verbally that the enrolling school is responsible for covering my direct research costs and that “if they didn’t have the money for funding they shouldn’t have taken you on as a student”. That leaves me in a PhD no mans land as I wait for them to figure out what to do next…..
Do you think this is enough to hold their feet to the fire?
Also, if I fail my confirmation due to lack of funding (or asked to leave for the same reason), won’t that affect my ability to seek a phD elsewhere in terms of tuition costs as a domestic student? Arrrrgh!
I love the idea of this blogsite; I think it is brilliant! If only blogs had been around when I was thinking of doing a thesis many many years ago! I am mainly a creative writer, though I do write book and play reviews. I would love to contribute something, but am not sure my stuff would be acceptable. Power to your collective pens! Alienora
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Dear Thesis Whisperer,
Thanks so much for writing this blog! I’m an Australian living in Switzerland with my partner and young daughter and I’ve just started a Creative writing Phd at Deakin University (by way of an historical novel and exegesis). I’m going to be an extremely off-campus student.
Living in a non-English speaking country as I do, it’s very difficult to find a network for both the creative writing, the research and the whole thesis writing thing. With this in mind I’m searching for online lifelines, and I think your site fits the bill very nicely.
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Love your blog! Love it so much, I nominated you for the Sunshine Blogger Award. Check out my blog post for the rules on what to do next.
http://virtuallyriki.wordpress.com/2013/12/30/virtually-riki-nominated-for-the-sunshine-award/
Happy Blogging!
Riki 🙂
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I’m glad that I found your blog. I’m a second-year PhD student from Malaysia, doing research on authentic learning strategies and writing. I’ve added a link to your blog on mine. I like all your postings. Thanks.
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