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- 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 which one learns to research) is different and e...
Tags (comma separated): phd, research, journey, learning, thesis, dissertation
Oct 5, 2012 at 2:04pm
The Good Supervisor : Gina Wisker : Palgrave Macmillan
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 content on cultural supervision, online distance...Tags (comma separated): supervision, supervisor, research, learning, teaching, graduate, undergraduate, postgraduate
Oct 5, 2012 at 2:08pm
- Great article from the Times Higher Ed giving hints and tips on how not to write a PhD. Good stuff.
Tags (comma separated): phd, research, dissertation, thesis
Apr 11, 2013 at 6:35am
- A useful site that aggregates a lot of news and information about PhDs, the PhD process and related issues.
Tags (comma separated): phd, support, postgraduate, research, graduate
Jun 20, 2013 at 6:52pm
MOOCs are so unambitious: introducing the MOOPhD
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 idea actually makes sense, partly to explore some...Tags (comma separated): phd, moophd, research, mooc, course, graduate, postgraduate
Jun 20, 2013 at 7:03pm
Getting research questions wrong - then right
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 )Tags (comma separated): research, question, thesis, graduate, PhD
Oct 4, 2013 at 6:24pm