The second year of my PhD taught me that the 'mid-PhD' lull really exists. It has also suddenly dawned on me that I am actually doing a PhD, something that requires hard work and resilience to…
When I first started my PhD two years ago, I heard whispers about a so called “PhD slump.” About how in the middle of the PhD journey, people want to scream, and cry, and give it all up. I thought it…
The first year of my PhD taught me 7 important lessons. I learned that being passionate about a cause can sometimes be very exhausting, I easily began to understand why PhD timelines don't work out…
When I first starting blogging, I wrote a post about why I chose to start a PhD. I wrote this post when I was 6 months into my PhD and in the proposal stage of my research. Now that I am almost ‘half…
If you asked me two years ago where I would be now, I never in a million years would have said sitting at my desk every week day reading journal articles and writing a proposal for an 80,000 word…