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Your Research. Your Life. Your Story. is a platform that features some really great and inspiring personal stories of researchers and academics. This is a forum on which…
- Jayashree Rajagopalan
- November 1, 2019
Now that you already know why I became the “Lousy Librarian” in the Twitter-sphere, I’d like to talk about the real world too – where I go through the day-to-day…
This story has been shared by Sikander Shirazi, Visiting Lecturer, Department of Mathematics, University of Karachi, Pakistan. Here, he talks about some of the most…
- Teacher M
- September 21, 2018
I started my PhD at King’s College in January 2016. At this point, I was so full of excitement and confidence, that I was certain I would breeze through my PhD. I knew…
- Charlott Repschlager
- June 3, 2019
As I often do when I have an important day, I woke up with butterflies and nausea. I arrived at the building I’m going to be based in feeling very nervous and sweaty…
Your first peer review experience might have been smooth, or it might have been diastrous. Regardless, it is one that has stuck with you as you advance in your academic…
Does journalistic writing prove advantageous to me as a researcher, or does it muddle my research manuscript by turning it into a journalistic article rather than an…
- Eunice Barbara Novio
- November 21, 2019
I wanted to write about my experience of simlutaneously being a PhD student and a parent. There are sacfricies - my children and partner see a little less of me but I am…
I must admit that as a young academic, receiving a decision from a journal stirs up some strong emotions. With trembling hands I read the editor’s decision: Major…
- Juuso Nieminen
- September 25, 2020
While attending a distance learning library science program, I decided that I wanted to get the full experience. And that I wanted to be engaged with faculty to some…