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The last couple of days have been especially trying for me. I have been suffering from anxiety in the workplace after working for two bosses that enjoyed seeing other…
For as long as I can remember I’ve dreamed of being addressed as “doctor.” To be able to be reminded upon every introduction, email signature, and header, that I…
If I could distil 4.5 years of a PhD into a 4.5 minute song, it would be a tune I half-heard one morning at the gym. I hadn’t heard it before, and I was sufficiently…
- Claire Jarvis
- May 31, 2019
Mentoring is something everyone has to do in academia and the truth of the matter is that not everyone is a good advisor. The supervisor-student relationship is a…
The past few months have been, well, predictable and unexciting. Transitioning from fieldwork — and a nine-to-five job — was, and still is, draining. Post-fieldwork…
- Melissa Gatter
- May 30, 2019
Today marks one year since I touched down on Jordanian soil to begin PhD fieldwork. And it also happens to be my 25th birthday. And guess what? Both of these markers…
- Melissa Gatter
- May 30, 2019
When we just met, I was so in love. I wanted to be with you, gather data and write papers for you. I wanted to “science” with you and spent many of my waking hours…
No, I don’t mean that PhD life and research are the spawn of evil and researchers are like Death Eaters using their skills to destroy the world as we know it. What I…
- Shruti Turner
- May 30, 2019
I had the viva part of my Early Stage Assessment yesterday and I’m relieved to say that I passed. Everyone was telling me that no one fails and it’d be fine, that I’d…
- Shruti Turner
- May 30, 2019
In my 20s, I was a devoted student of art history who waffled between going to graduate school for art history or maybe going for something like nursing. To my dismay,…
- Katherine Hart
- May 30, 2019