Author: Thesis Whisperer

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.

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.

This guest post is written by Elizabeth Humphrys, who has recently completed her Masters Thesis. Her day job is investigating student complaints and misconduct at a public university. Here Elizabeth shares her thoughts on the feelings she experienced just before submitting. I submitted my Masters thesis in October 2010. I recently received the examiners’ reports …continue reading.

In which I turn around an old favourite of mine to make a list of don’ts