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Surviving a PhD – 10 Top Tips
By Jon Dron 5 October 2012 @ 9:03amthesiswhisperer.com - A bunch of motivational tips by Alex Hope, with some useful advice for those struggling with the doctoral learning journey. Tip 10 (ignore tips 1-9) is particularly valuable: the take-home message is that every doctorate (or other large activity in... -
Getting research questions wrong - then right
By Jon Dron 4 October 2013 @ 1:24pmpatthomson.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 ) -
Noah Gray: Abstract Science
By Jon Dron 4 October 2012 @ 9:28amwww.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. -
MOOCs are so unambitious: introducing the MOOPhD
By Jon Dron 20 June 2013 @ 2:03pmlanding.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... -
The Daily PhD
By Jon Dron 20 June 2013 @ 1:52pmhttp://thedailyphd.com/# - A useful site that aggregates a lot of news and information about PhDs, the PhD process and related issues. -
The Good Supervisor : Gina Wisker : Palgrave Macmillan
By Jon Dron 5 October 2012 @ 9:08amwww.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... -
Selecting a (Dissertation) Chair and Committee
By Jon Dron 9 January 2014 @ 1:59pmcgi.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,...