PhD Research

A Better Way to Do Research? Applying Design Thinking and Lean Principles to Writing Your PhD Thesis

Research and PhD thesis writing are by their nature unpredictable. Given…
PhD Creativity

Applying the Creative Curve to PhD Research

According to Allen Gannett, author of The Creative Curve there…

How to Change Your PhD Supervisor

I have mentored a number of PhD students who have changed their…

How to Get a Job after Your PhD

Once you achieve your PhD and after the euphoria and the well…

The Importance of Play as a PhD Student

I’ve spent the past two weeks cleaning out my attic. It was…
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The Post-PhD Blues: Managing Your Career after the PhD

‘We live our lives going forward but only understand them…
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Writing your Thesis: Building a Writing Routine as a PhD Student

The PhD is designed to make you into a professional researcher…
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Find the Gap – Finding Your Original Contribution to Knowledge

Once you have found a topic that interests you and which you…
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How to Deconstruct Your PhD

‘Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority,…
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Starting with the End in Mind – Envisioning your PhD

In Sweden when you get your PhD they give you a laurel wreath…