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I was exhausted, sleep deprived, and often depressed, but I finished my research and made all the amendments requested by my supervisor. Finally, I submitted my research…
- Nehad Soliman
- May 18, 2020
It has been a whole week since I handed in my PhD thesis! This is a huge milestone for any PhD student and something to be celebrated, to be proud of, and embrace being…
When I returned from my internship at the Scottish government, my main task was to complete the three findings chapters of my thesis. I drafted these in a decent time,…
- Lyndsey Middleton
- June 28, 2019
Once, during an intensive two-week field gig, I had a miscarriage. It was not a dramatic one. Just an ordinary ending of a pregnancy in its early stages, the kind women…
My supervisor has been reading and criticizing the statement of the problem for the past session and a half. Whenever I ask him for feedback, he give me his usual…
Imagine two instructors sitting around, working on a writing project, talking about students. They have taught so many classes that they have lost count. And they are…
When I first told my family in the Emirates that I had been accepted to a PhD programme at the University of Cambridge, my father’s bewildered reaction was to…
It would be great to live in a world where your fashion choices didn’t influence what people think about your competence or abilities as a scientist. Sadly, we do not…
- Allison McDonald
- May 6, 2019
Three years into my statistics PhD and I’m finally starting to get a feel for what a ‘typical’ day means for me. My life is currently a balancing act between research,…
- Meridith Bartley
- May 15, 2019
I am a researcher from an ordinary public university in South Brazil. For many of you who follow the news, this simple information speaks for itself. My colleagues and I…
- Jucelaine Haas
- May 7, 2020