This post is by Dr Matthew Evans who is currently a Teaching Fellow in Law, Politics and Sociology at the University of Sussex, Brighton, UK and Visiting Researcher in Political Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, where he was previously a Postdoctoral Research Fellow. Prior to this he completed his PhD …continue reading.

I’ve known of Dr Helen Kara and admired her work for some time now. She is one of that rare breed of independent academic who manages to make not being formally affiliated with a university work for her. I was pleased to be able to meet her in person and spend time together in late …continue reading.

All over Australia, new PhD students are beginning their studies – welcome! Starting something new can be hard. Connecting with your new community can make it so much easier. Thesiswhisperer is an online community, but of course you will have your local community too, in your school or faculty. If you are new to ANU, …continue reading.

Welcome to 2017. It’s started in an odd way hasn’t it? When the world seems topsy-turvy, I find it’s even more important to take a moment to pause. To think. To take stock, re-orient, reassess and set new goals. I hope many of you took a break. I’ve had a month off and it’s been …continue reading.

Dear Readers, The summer/winter holidays are upon us and we have come to the end of yet another year of Thesis Whisperer posts! This year I published 50 posts, which have travelled far and wide. There have been 1.3 million views from 780,000 unique visitors, in addition to the weekly mail out to around 30,000 …continue reading.

We hear a lot about under employment at the early career research stage, but not much about employment issues at the other end of your career. What happens if you are made redundant later in life? This post is by Associate Professor Martin Davies, an honorary Principal Fellow in the Graduate School of Education, University …continue reading.

Dr. Daveena Tauber is a composition scholar, consultant, and teacher who specializes in pedagogies related to graduate-level writing. Her practice, ScholarStudio, serves individual writers as well as with institutions, offering workshops, residencies, curriculum design, and faculty development. Find more of her work on writing and teaching writing at Scholar Studio website or blog. Executive functioning …continue reading.

This post is by Dr. Jay Daniel Thompson, who teaches at the University of Melbourne, and works as a freelance editor. Dr. Thompson has a background in research administration, and remains interested in issues facing postgraduate students and early career researchers. He can be contacted via email at jaydthompson80@gmail.com There are many lists of skills …continue reading.

At ANU we run a program called ‘Thesis Bootcamp’, adopted from the Melbourne University program of the same name invented by Liam Connell and Peta Freestone. Thesis bootcamp challenges PhD students to write as much as 20,000 words on a single weekend of intensive writing in a group setting. We run four Thesis Bootcamps a …continue reading.

This post is by Samantha Fitch, a PhD Student at School of Population Health at the University of Auckland As I approach the 3-year mark, I’m the worst person to talk to if you want to do a PhD. I heard an undergraduate student say how she “just loved research”. I replied – “I felt …continue reading.