Category: Miscellany

What happens to your research when you die? Danya Hodgetts has some disturbing questions.

I’m a bad mother and missed my blog’s second birthday! In this post I try to make up for it by reflecting on the year past.

This post is by Dr Alex Hope, a Lecturer in Sustainable Development and Project Management at Northumbria University in the United Kingdom and was originally post on his blog. Alex is also on Twitter where he tweets about sustainability, academia, PhD advice and life. I hope you will head on over there and check out what he has to say!

For nearly two years, The Thesis Whisperer has lived on the free WordPress site. This weekend Mr Thesis Whisperer helped me to move the blog to a dedicated domain name: thesiswhisperer.com I love WordPress and I felt it was time I kicked them some money for the great service and software they provide. I paid …continue reading.

The Thesis Whisperer is on sick leave after I was hit by a car late last week…

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

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….

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

I’m wondering – are there any similarities between moving house and doing a thesis?

“…It was at this point Dave would ask me what was wrong. You know what my reply was to someone who has finished a PhD and now has students of his own? The ever classic, “You wouldn’t understand.” Stupid or what? If anyone was going to understand my private hell, Dave was…”