It was 6th October last year when I finally received the email from my Graduate School saying that my examiners were happy with my thesis amendments and I was officially all done and dusted. 6 months on, I’ve had time to reflect on the PhD, my experiences during it and Read more
Susanna L. Harris, Founder and Chief Executive Officer From my seat at the front of the conference room, I turned around to scan the group of science graduate students excited about changing the world. Had someone told me last March that 1% of those students dealt with depression, I would Read more
Is there anything you wish you could have told yourself at the start, or at crucial points of your PhD to save yourself lots of time and/or stress? I asked PhD Twitter what, as a more experienced or finished PhD student, they wish they would have done earlier to help Read more
Amongst the submissions to this request for PhD experiences was a lot of people talking about the day to day requirements about working all hours! To help make it clear how you should do a PhD I have prepared the following heatmap infographic on how PhD time should be spent.
It’s December, and labs across the globe (probably) are running Secret Santas in order to keep festive spirits up. For those readers unfamiliar with the concept of a Secret Santa, the idea is that a bunch of you get together, stick your names in a hat, or these days an Read more
So last week I put out a rare call for input from our readers. I asked for PhD stories and experiences and got… PhD stories and experiences, which was a big shock to us all. There’s a chance our readers are actually intelligent people that want to contribute constructively to Read more
So this week I sat down to write an ErrantScience article all about the PhD experience. I’ve written plenty about PhDs before from various perspectives but the article I was writing gave me pause. I am keenly aware that my own PhD experience doesn’t exactly match up with my peers Read more
When starting on the path to academia, you generally know, broadly what subject area you like. First you realise you like science. Then you figure out that you prefer biology to chemistry or physics. Somehow a few years later you’re studying the intricate details of spider gait (and realise that Read more
And now for something completely different. Let’s jump ahead to that (seemingly impossible) point in the future where you’ve spent enough time working on THE graph as well as many other graphs and words, which have themselves come from what feels like millions of experiments. You’ve not slept a full Read more
PhDs are hard. Some people’s are harder than others, but the base level is hard and it just kind of ramps from there depending on having a good or bad supervisor or depending on whether or not all your data gets stolen. An individual PhD is also varyingly hard throughout Read more