Someone’s Doing My PhD!
This post is a brief reflection on how to deal with the fact that you might not be the only one working on “your” topic.
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Academia & Addiction
An anonymous PhD student discusses how Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and the pressures of academia have led them to become addicted to painkillers. Are academics prone to socially acceptable addictions?
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Depression & Academia: There’s No Such Thing as Enough
An early-career academic writes about their struggles with depression and chronic anxiety.
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Anxiety & Academia
An anonymous blogger reflects on the relationship between anxiety and academia.
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Lyme Disease
Amber Davis tells the story of interrupting her PhD due to Lyme Disease, though the nature of her illness was unknown to her at the time.
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20/06/2016 “The New Academic: Career Development & Social Media for ECRs” (University of Exeter)
I’m excited to have been asked to deliver two workshops for PhD students and early-career researchers at the University of Exeter: one on how to strategically develop your CV in the pursuit of an academic career, the other on how social media can act as a useful tool academic career development. If you’d like to […]
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Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)
An anonymous doctoral researcher recounts their experiences of IBS and the impact it has had on their studies and career.
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