{PhD} 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.
{PhD} 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
blog | Magic | PhD thoughts | You-niverse
{PhD} Feel-good work routines for your best PhD days
8 best tips for creating nourishing, fulfilled, full days (in and out of your PhD)
{PhD} What is ‘good enough’ for the PhD?
What the actual fuck does it mean to be ‘good enough’ in PhD or academia anyway?
{PhD} 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
{PhD} 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
{PhD} The PhD can be challenging AND joyful
Challenges/difficulties AND invigorating, stimulating, joyful fulfilment in the PhD process are not two mutually exclusively things.
{PhD} The PhD is a strange thing
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.
blog | PhD thoughts | Sovereignty | Spark
{PhD} Your examiners DON’T know best
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.
blog | Ease | PhD thoughts | Sovereignty
{PhD} That person you’re comparing to is a hot mess too
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…”