Category: Wellbeing

Exploring the importance of mental health and self-care during the doctoral journey, offering practical tips and resources to help researchers stay healthy and motivated throughout their studies.

Experiences

Motherhood and Doctoral Studies: Everything, Everywhere, All at Once

Navigating motherhood and academia can be overwhelming, especially when they happen simultaneously. I discuss my experiences, struggles, and successes as an emerging researcher and new mother, and suggestions for universities to further support these populations moving forward.

Taylor Darwin

Experiences

Managing PhD Stress And Staying Motivated.

A research journey is a rollercoaster ride with its fair share of ups and downs. If we can enjoy the happy moments, we can overcome the things which pull us down. Let us see our PhD as a solo adventure trek, rather than a track race.

Mercy Rophina

Experiences

Doing A PhD Can Be A Lonely Journey. Starting A Support Group Will Make Your Life So Much Better.

Read Andrea’s journey in forming a group of inspiring women who, after struggling in their PhDs, created a support group that changed their lives. Through celebrating successes and creating a safe space, they pick each other up and help each other achieve their goals.

Andrea Perino

Wellbeing

Tips For Keeping Your Wellbeing In Check Whilst Doing A PhD

In this article, Keira White reflects on her challenges of pursuing a PhD during the Covid-19 pandemic and shares her top tips on maintaining wellbeing during this difficult period.

Keira White

Experiences

Pursuing a PhD as an older student – is it too late?

Adrienne Darrah discusses the advantages and difficulties of pursuing a PhD later in life, and presents reasons why you should contemplate undertaking a PhD as an older student in this talk.

Adrienne Darrah

Experiences

The Trials of the “Trailing Spouse”

Relocating for a PhD and academic career is often not only required of the candidate but their partners and/or children, too. How do we acknowledge and amplify the experiences of “the trailing spouse and families” while also creating systemic change that would make academic career moves more feasible and fulfilling for all involved?

Kate Aguilar

Wellbeing

The Importance of Student Groups and Connecting with Others as a Graduate Student

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.

Kristin Hynes

Wellbeing

How to do a PhD when you have ADHD Part 2: Managing the rest of your life

This article provides strategies and considerations for PhD students with ADHD to manage life beyond coursework and dissertation writing. The article suggests reflecting on how busy you need to be, talking to supervisors and committee members about ADHD, proactively managing rejection sensitivity, and streamlining life outside of doctoral studies.

Kristy Smith

Wellbeing

How to do a PhD when you have ADHD Part 1: Academics

Guidance for doing a PhD with ADHD and make the most of your abilities with these helpful strategies. From capitalizing on hyperfocus and taking productive breaks, to creating multiple points of contact for deadlines and commitments, this guide is packed with tips to help you work with your ADHD rather than against it.

Kristy Smith

Wellbeing

The One Where You Survive A PhD In A Global Pandemic…

Discover how one PhD student survived and even thrived during the global pandemic in this inspiring story of resilience and perseverance. From coping with the uncertainties of lockdown to finding balance and kindness in academic life, this journey offers valuable insights and lessons for anyone pursuing a PhD.

Amy K. McEwan

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Category: Wellbeing

Motherhood and Doctoral Studies: Everything, Everywhere, All at Once

Managing PhD Stress And Staying Motivated.

Doing A PhD Can Be A Lonely Journey. Starting A Support Group Will Make Your Life So Much Better.

Tips For Keeping Your Wellbeing In Check Whilst Doing A PhD

Pursuing a PhD as an older student – is it too late?

The Trials of the “Trailing Spouse”

The Importance of Student Groups and Connecting with Others as a Graduate Student

How to do a PhD when you have ADHD Part 2: Managing the rest of your life

How to do a PhD when you have ADHD Part 1: Academics

The One Where You Survive A PhD In A Global Pandemic…

Categories

Motherhood and Doctoral Studies: Everything, Everywhere, All at Once

Managing PhD Stress And Staying Motivated.

How I Navigated my Mentor Switching Institutions During my Ph.D.