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{PhD} Why I don’t care for the Dr title
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{PhD} Why I don’t care for the Dr title

ByJamie Pei August 12, 2022August 23, 2022

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.

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{PhD} What’s so hard about doing a PhD anyway?
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{PhD} What’s so hard about doing a PhD anyway?

ByJamie Pei July 18, 2022July 18, 2022

An overview of five unique challenges of PhD life and some ways to face them with more grace, clarity, ease, joy

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{PhD} Feel-good work routines for your best PhD days
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{PhD} Feel-good work routines for your best PhD days

ByJamie Pei July 11, 2022July 13, 2022

8 best tips for creating nourishing, fulfilled, full days (in and out of your PhD)

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{PhD} What is ‘good enough’ for the PhD?
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{PhD} What is ‘good enough’ for the PhD?

ByJamie Pei June 30, 2022June 16, 2022

What the actual fuck does it mean to be ‘good enough’ in PhD or academia anyway?

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{PhD} Radical alternative ways of approaching productivity in the PhD
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{PhD} Radical alternative ways of approaching productivity in the PhD

ByJamie Pei June 21, 2022

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.

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{PhD} 10 ways to beat writer’s block in the PhD
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{PhD} 10 ways to beat writer’s block in the PhD

ByJamie Pei June 16, 2022June 13, 2022

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.

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{PhD} The PhD can be challenging AND joyful
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{PhD} The PhD can be challenging AND joyful

ByJamie Pei June 9, 2022June 9, 2022

Challenges/difficulties AND invigorating, stimulating, joyful fulfilment in the PhD process are not two mutually exclusively things.

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{PhD} The PhD is a strange thing
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{PhD} The PhD is a strange thing

ByJamie Pei April 27, 2022April 27, 2022

The PhD is a formless, undefinable, unpredictable, ever-changing, multi-faceted thing – this is why it’s all the more important to get super clear about YOUR intentions, goals and best work practices.

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{PhD} Your examiners DON’T know best
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{PhD} Your examiners DON’T know best

ByJamie Pei April 15, 2022April 15, 2022

Your examiners’ assessment of your PhD is not the only one that matters (in fact it doesn’t need to matter at all). Here’s why.

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{PhD} That person you’re comparing to is a hot mess too
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{PhD} That person you’re comparing to is a hot mess too

ByJamie Pei April 4, 2022April 4, 2022

Consider these 3 things the very next time you start thinking, “But I suck and I’m failing my PhD because they’re doing better than me…”

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