Tips and advice on managing the common emotional and logistical challenges of PhD studies.
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Being a Candidate (UniMelb)
A range of UniMelb resources that cover what you need to do to maintain your enrolment as a graduate researcher, such as passing confirmation and attending progress reviews. There's also information to help you make changes to your enrolment and resolve problems if they arise.
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Beating Procrastination with The Right Now List
This blog post provides a simple trick for beating or getting past procrastination.
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How to Survive a PhD (EdX Course)
A 10 module self-paced course that you can work through in your own time. Includes modules on confidence, frustration, loneliness, fear, curiosity, confusion, boredom and love.
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The Illustrated Guide to a PhD
A visual representation of what a PhD is.
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Why a PhD Can Feel Pointless (and What To Do About it)
This Thesis Whisperer blog draws on Inger's own experience of completing a PhD and offers suggestions on how to overcome feelings of pointlessness.
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Making it Okay and Normal to Fail
This How to write a PhD in a hundred steps (or more) blog post explores that notion of failure in academia and explains that failure is normal.
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How to Take a Break From Your Writing and Research
A How to write a PhD in a hundred steps (or more) blog post provides tips on how to take a break/holiday.
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Feeling Like an Imposter? Ask “What’s Going on Here?”
A Patter blog post on imposter phenomenon and how to deal with it.
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Making Important Decisions About the Doctorate (I)
Part one of a two-post series by A Happy PhD providing tips on making difficult decisions during your doctorate.
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Making Important Decisions About the Doctorate (II)
Part two of a two-post series by A Happy PhD providing tips on making difficult decisions during your doctorate.