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Endnote vs …. well, everything else 20 Aug 2013 | 11:40 pm
Just before I handed in my thesis two things happened, which, up to then I had thought were PhD student urban myths: A whole journal came out full of articles that ‘scooped’ my thesis topic (gah!!) ...
THAT meeting 13 Aug 2013 | 11:00 pm
This post was written by Jonathan Downie, a PhD student, conference interpreter, public speaker and translator based in Edinburgh, Scotland. He co-edits LifeinLINCS the unofficial blog of the Departme...
PhD lifestyle guilt 6 Aug 2013 | 11:00 pm
This post was written by Paula Hanasz who is currently writing a thesis on the geopolitics of water security in South Asia at The ANU. She is enrolled at the Australia National University but currentl...
In praise of the small conference 30 Jul 2013 | 11:00 pm
This post was written by Laura McInerney, who was a high school teacher in England for six years. She is currently a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Missouri studying for her PhD in Education L...
Does my PhD have to save the world? 23 Jul 2013 | 11:00 pm
This post is by Hedda Ransan-Cooper who is currently a PhD Candidate, School of Sociology at the ANU. She doesn’t (yet) have a blog but you can find her on twitter: @hedda_r Perhaps you’re one of tho...
What’s your edge? 16 Jul 2013 | 11:00 pm
The other day I was reading a paper called “The crisis in Doctoral education: a sociological analysis” by Gavin Kendall which talks about how doctoral education has come to be seen as being in a perpe...
Achy breaky heart: coping with academic rejection 10 Jul 2013 | 03:39 pm
This post is by Dr Judy Robertson who is a senior lecturer in computer science at Heriot-Watt University in Scotland and Chief Cat Herder for the undergraduate computer science programme there. Judy ...
Four Ways to Rock Your Next Talk 9 Jul 2013 | 11:00 pm
All around Australia PhD students are preparing for the 3 minute thesis competition, so it seems like a good time to be talking about presenting skills! This post was written by Jonathan Downie, a Ph...
How to create ‘authoritative voice’ in your writing 2 Jul 2013 | 11:00 pm
For some inexplicable reason, perhaps to do with Woodstock, kaftans, free love and the rest, the education department in Australia decided to abandon the teaching of grammar in the late sixties and di...
When are you really finished with a PhD? 25 Jun 2013 | 11:00 pm
Lauren Gawne was a PhD student in the School of Languages and Linguistics at the University of Melbourne. She wrote this post while she was in ‘examination limbo’ has now received her examiners report...
