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

thesiswhisperer.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...

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

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.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.

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,...