PhD students often face loneliness during their journey, and it’s important to have a support system. In this article, Alicia Wickert shares her advice on how to find your team, including reaching out to family, joining a community at university, and connecting with other students in your department.
In this blog post, I’ll show you four things you can do with the new SciSpace Agent: identifying research gaps, supporting your literature reviews, auto-generating posters, and finding the right journal for your paper. Instead of jumping between separate tools, the agent integrates 150+ research tools and databases (PubMed, Google Scholar, arXiv, grants.gov, and more) alongside SciSpace’s own features, including a database of 280M+ papers.
Feeling isolated while pursuing a PhD is common, but it’s important to build connections with others to feel supported and foster a sense of community. Participating in student-run groups and attending events can help graduate students make friends and even get to know professors in their department.
At ninety years old, Dr Bronwyn Herbert has completed her PhD at the University of Queensland, Australia. The PhD Place had the pleasure of interviewing her across the globe to share her inspiring story with our readers! Drawing on her extensive career in social work and her wealth of life experience, Bronwyn promotes the joy of lifelong learning and showcases the power of resilience that every PhD student can seek to emulate.
