Montana Cresswell

PhD candidate

PhD candidate in Business Management

How I spent my first week of PhD life

My first week as a PhD student began before my first week actually started! I was sent an email from the university with a mile-long list of things to do online, which included several training courses, checklists, and registering for further training. And I soon realized that this was just the beginning.

While pursuing academic excellence, age is just a number

I am not the obvious choice when it comes to labeling someone as an academic – I laugh a lot, I am super chilled, I don’t take much seriously, I look like I spend my life in face masks and salons and quite frankly, I don’t hold a vocabulary which is up to any standards that I'd associate with a Master’s graduate or PhD student, and yet I am here.