Amplifying The Voices Of PhD Students
Have you ever found something wrong in your lab, maybe an instrument has been broken or something not quite how it should be? Or, have you ever found that someone you supervise won’t ever take responsibility for doing something wrong?…
Research is a team game and the better your research group works together, the further you’ll go. The idea of working in a team is that each member gets more than they would if they worked alone. That’s the main…
This blog post comes from a question asked on Twitter. The question was simply, how do you motivate your PhD students to write when they don’t want to. This was our answer: This is a fairly open-ended question because we…
A lot of the time, we’re just thrown into being a supervisor – we’re given the choice to have PhD students to help do research and we take them on. Often, we don’t get much training for being a good…
Have you ever given a presentation, then part way through you start rambling and you have no idea where you’re going with it? It’s almost this outer body experience where you know that you have no idea what you’re saying,…
Now, why are there so many bad supervisors? It’s almost a proverb that your supervisor will have the largest impact on your PhD. So, you’d think that there’d be more good supervisors and less bad ones, right. But, these bad…
Content Warning: Sexual Abuse, Suicide I recently came out on social media about the sexual abuse that I experienced under my famous graduate school advisor. It has gone exactly as poorly as I thought it would. I wish I could…
One of the greatest stressors to all PhD students is the future. While we like to think of the future as bright and exciting, our everyday view of it is a little bleaker. And if you think about it, almost…
