www.timeshighereducation.co.uk - Great article from the Times Higher Ed giving hints and tips on how not to write a PhD. Good stuff.

patthomson.wordpress.com - A nice simple explanation of how to come up with (and not come up with) research questions for a thesis. Distilled from Trowler's book (available cheaply at http://www.amazon.co.uk/Doctoral-Research-Higher-Education-ebook/dp/B007W57J5K )

www.huffingtonpost.com - By Noah Gray, an excellent tutorial in writing scientific abstracts, applicable across social sciences as well as harder science disciplines. Simple, concise and memorable.

http://thedailyphd.com/# - A useful site that aggregates a lot of news and information about PhDs, the PhD process and related issues.

landing.athabascau.ca - My article proposing (only very slightly tongue-in-cheek) a massive open online PhD. It goes into some detail about ways this could be done, and the issues that might prevent it from happening. I wrote the article as an exercise to see whether the...

www.palgrave.com - Provides help for those wanting to develop strategies for effective supervision with a diversity of students on a wide variety of research projects, whether at postgraduate or undergraduate level. Fully updated second edition includes new...

www.igi-global.com - Book by Jon Dron. Abstract Every learner is on a trajectory, an individual path that involves choices about what to do next in order to learn, choices that are bounded by intrinsic and extrinsic constraints. In some cases the learner controls...

cgi.stanford.edu - This is a useful article via Tomorrow's Professor for postgraduate students choosing their supervisory team, with a carefully thought-through set of criteria that includes expertise, accessibility, timeliness of feedback, previous success,...