10 (20) truths about doing a PhD
Which of these do you choose to be true for you?
blog | Magic | PhD thoughts | Spark
Dial up the joy in your PhD life
Opening up the possibility that PhD life – and the entire academic cosmos around it – can be a different way: that is joyful, pleasurable, full of ease and lightness and fun.
Why I don’t care for the Dr title
My lack of enthusiasm around acquiring the Dr title has not only made me feel like a weirdo but also been a cause of much internal friction, confusion and disconnect throughout my PhD years.
What’s so hard about doing a PhD anyway?
An overview of five unique challenges of PhD life and some ways to face them with more grace, clarity, ease, joy
What to do when things go wrong in your research
I promise – when things go wrong in your research, it’s NOT the end of the world. In fact, it could just be the very thing to make your research BETTER. Here’s how.
blog | Magic | PhD thoughts | You-niverse
Feel-good work routines for your best PhD days
8 best tips for creating nourishing, fulfilled, full days (in and out of your PhD)
What is ‘good enough’ for the PhD?
What the actual fuck does it mean to be ‘good enough’ in PhD or academia anyway?
Radical alternative ways of approaching productivity in the PhD
If you’re struggling to work the way you think you should be working in your PhD, here are a few radical, different ways of thinking about research productivity and PhD success.
blog | PhD thoughts | Spark
10 ways to beat writer’s block in the PhD
Don’t resist writer’s block in your PhD. Work with it. Here are 10 of my favourite things to do to bust, shimmy and skip through the stuckness.
blog | Ease | PhD thoughts | Spark
The PhD can be challenging AND joyful
Challenges/difficulties AND invigorating, stimulating, joyful fulfilment in the PhD process are not two mutually exclusively things.