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5 ways to make your supervisor happy
Sometimes it’s the little things that count
How to win (academic) friends and influence people
It is well known that professors can have favourite students, which usually irritates the heck out of the students who finally work out that they are not on the list. Being the favourite student can carry a lot of power – like access to the supervisor’s time and resources (in a perfect world, of course, …continue reading.
Top 5 phone apps for researchers
Looking for an excuse to buy that smart phone? Here’s five.
On life in the lab and failure
What I found out about science during a nice trip to the country
Social media and your PhD
A blog can be an archive of reflections about what it means to do a PhD. It can be a placeholder for the vignettes that build to become arguments in the thesis and, unlike a personal journal, the thoughts and arguments are open for scrutiny and feedback.
The dead hand of the thesis genre?
Is your writing mannered and your ideas disappearing in a maze of fancy academic language? Perhaps you are being pressed under the dead hand of the thesis genre!
In memory of Maria Cugnetto
Today I received some sad news that Maria Cugnetto, one of our PhD students here at RMIT had passed away. We are all diminished by her loss. I always enjoyed her company and wish I had time to get to know her better. This obituary is written by Angela Di Pasquale, another RMIT PhD student, …continue reading.
What are you learning while you do your PhD? (maybe not what you expected!)
You might be learning all kinds of unexpected things while doing your PhD – some of these ‘other’ things might help you get a job later on.
PhD rage
This is a picture of one of the rather nice glass doors in my apartment. If you look closely you will notice there’s a big crack in it, right next to the handle. I blame this crack on Chapter five of my PhD. To this day I don’t know how it happened, but I managed …continue reading.
Voices from the front line
Our first PhD student piece – professional brain?