A Note From the Editor:
Every month thousands of readers from all over the world visit our blog to find out about the ups and downs of PhD Life and solutions to overcoming challenges. Whilst some may recognise themselves in the experiences of some of our bloggers, others may not have embarked on their PhD journey yet and may be looking to find out more.
Over 340 posts have been published on PhD Life Blog so far. In order to make things easier for our readers, we have decided to publish our Contents page with the titles of all of our posts. The names of the authors, publishing dates and links to each post are included. Hopefully, this will make surfing our blog a more enjoyable experience, and it will help our readers to discover hidden gems of the PhD Life. Happy reading!
- Impact and Early Career Researchers, Charlotte Mathieson, 3 January 2014
- Case study: Impact in the Arts and Humanities, Charlotte Mathieson, 3 January 2014
- Searching for journal articles, Helen Yendall, 3 January 2014
- Creating a search strategy, Helen Yendall, 3 January 2014
- Finding books for your research, Helen Yendall, 3 January 2014
- Your research online: e-profiles for Arts PhDs, Peter Kirwan, 3 January 2014
- Talking about your research in conversation, Peter Kirwan, 3 January 2014
- Marketing for arts researchers: the basics, Peter Kirwan, 3 January 2014
- Using Twitter to boost your research profile, Dilip Mutum, 3 January 2014
- Making your blog more interactive, Dilip Mutum, 3 January 2014
- Facebook for researchers, Dilip Mutum, 3 January 2014
- Planning research led events, Georgina Collins, 3 January 2014
- Running research led events, Georgina Collins, 3 January 2014
- Opportunities following research led events, Georgina Collins, 3 January 2014
- Participating in a research group, Lauren Thompson, 3 January 2014
- Convening a research group, Lauren Thompson, 3 January 2014
- Starting a research group, Lauren Thompson, 3 January 2014
- Planning a literature review, Charlotte Mathieson, 4 January 2014
- Writing a literature review, Charlotte Mathieson, 4 January 2014
- Keeping an Annotated Bibliography, Charlotte Mathieson, 4 January 2014
- Dance, dance revelations, Thomas Bray, 6 January 2014
- From Warwick to Oxford…, Samantha Lyle, 6 January 2014
- How I learnt to stop worrying and embrace 3rd year, Thomas Bray, 6 January 2014
- Methodology giant must come down, Tomi Ola, 6 January 2014
- Guide to employability: Step 1. Be original – know thyself, Ioanna Iordanou, 6 January 2014
- Guide of employability: Step 2. Identify your strengths and talents, Ioanna Iordanou, 6 January 2014
- Guide to Employability: Step 3. The 10 Commandments of the Academic in the Making, Ioanna Iordanou, 6 January 2014
- End of transcription…I feel alive again, Salma Patel, 6 January 2014
- Procrastination and the PhD, James Dennis, 6 January 2014
- A great Support Service: Rex – Sruti, Sruti Das Choudhury, 6 January 2014
- The inevitable awkward question, Thomas Bray, 6 January 2014
- Time Management Strategies, Ceren Kaya, 6 January 2014
- Dizzying highs & sickening lows of research trip, Thomas Bray, 6 January 2014
- It’s raining cats and monologues, Thomas Bray, 6 January 2014
- Virtual Campus Life, Jennifer Kitchen, 6 January 2014
- Doing research never goes to plan, Joelin Quigley-Berg
- Eureka Moments, Bernie Divall, 6 January 2014
- Time for a meltdown, Bernie Divall, 6 January 2014
- The power of supervisors, Bernie Divall, 6 January 2014
- Turning 30 and the PhD, Edward Jackson, 13 January 2014
- What comes after the PhD?, Georgina Collins, 13 January 2014
- Women in Academia: The debate lives on…, 14 January 2014
- Choosing your PhD Examiners, Anna Sloan, 21 January 2014
- From PhD to ECR, Georgina Collins, 24 January 2014
- Print the document!, Anna Sloan, 29 January 2014
- Peculiarities of finding romance as a PhD Student, Thomas Bray, 3 February 2014
- Table Tennis and the PhD, Desiree Arbo, 11 February 2014
- Publishing your work – choosing a journal, Sharon Boden, 16 February 2014
- Final Year Writing Gymnastics!, Eljee Javier, 19 February 2014
- Peer review, Sharon Boden, 23 February 2014
- Bertha needs your help with her topic, Tomi Oladepo, 25 February 2014
- Part-time PhD & Study Balance, Helen Palmer, 5 March 2014
- Living A healthy PhD Life, U. Ejiro Omomake, 8 March 2014
- Chaos, creativity and data: a clear connection?, Bernie Divall, 14 March 2014
- Getting your thesis published, Georgina Collins, 16 March 2014
- Approaching a publisher, Georgina Collins, 23 March 2014
- From proposal to print, Georgina Collins, 30 March 2014
- PhD student meets the gym, Joelin Quigley-Berg, 4 April 2014
- A PhD + a Mummy? Yes, I can, Duduzile Ndlovu, 15 April 2014
- Researching Overseas (Part 1), Georgina Collins, 25 April 2014
- Researching Overseas (Part 2), Georgina Collins, 2 May 2014
- Researching Overseas (part 3), Georgina Collins, 8 May 2014
- Running away to the sea – Bernie, Bernie Divall, 19 May 2014
- Time flies when you are thinking, Bernie Divall, 22 May 2014
- The Power of Procrastination, Desiree Arbo, 26 May 2014
- Power of Procrastination (2), Desiree Arbo, 2 June 2014
- Accolades and Acknowledgements, Thomas Bray, 10 June 2014
- A Field-Guide to Supervisors Tame and Wild, Thomas Bray, 18 June 2014
- Font of Stimulation & Scrivner, Tomi Oladepo, 26 June 2014
- Top 10 Awkward PhD Moments, Tomi Oladepo, 2 July 2014
- Tips – What Comes After an Erasmus Offer?, Valentina Corbani, 8 July 2014
- A Tale of PhD Rivalry, Thomas Bray, 14 July 2014
- Effective Researcher Tools – Joelin’s List, Joelin Quigley-Berg, 23 July 2014
- Outside, Looking In, Nicolas Pillai, 1 August 2014
- Chasing Chickens, Thomas Bray, 19 August 2014
- How to draw “To DO” lists as a PhD Student, Dimi Kaneva, 25 September 2014
- How to create “Head space” for writing, Nicolas Pillai, 16 October 2014
- Teaching for those who can’t, Lauren, 27 October 2014
- How to do Interdisciplinary Research, Peter Kirwan, 6 November 2014
- Homesickness, culture clashes & PhD Life, Anna, 13 November 2014
- My Adventures on Tweet-Street, Thomas Bray, 20 November 2014
- Easy Guide to Research Blogging, Nicolas Pillai, 24 November 2014
- Guide to Building Blog Readership for Researchers, Nicolas Pillai, 26 November 2014
- How to Use Social Bookmarks for Research, Nicolas Pillai, 28 November 2014
- Poorly me and the place of plan B, Bernie D., 1 December 2014
- Reasons to be Cheerful, Bernie D., 3 December 2014
- Knowing when to stop, Bernie D., 5 December 2014
- Incredibly ill-equipped hulk anxiety, Sarah, 9 December 2014
- ‘Tis the season to be excessive, Thomas, 12 December 2014
- Tips on Using Archives for Research, Andrea Hajek, 16 December 2014
- One PhD, No Work Experience, Furaha Asani, 19 December 2014
- How I do my PhD, Michael Saker, 5 January 2015
- A Guide to “Impact” in Research, Georgina Collins, 8 January 2015
- How to present your research to a non-academic audience, Georgina Collins, 12 January 2015
- Post-presentation Blues, Sarah Jane, 19 January 2015
- I had my PhD Viva, and I enjoyed it. There, I said it, Eljee Javier, 2 February 2015
- Holidays for PhD Students – How does it work?, Salma, 4 February 2015
- Impact – my experience on a radio interview, Georgina Collins, 9 February 2015
- Food for this researcher’s soul, Bernie, 13 February 2015
- A working holiday? How about a thinking one?, Thomas, 20 February 2015
- External examiners and the birth of a PhD, Bernie, 23 February 2015
- Impact | Writing for a Professional Magazine, Georgina Collins, 25 February 2015
- Getting back to my third baby… the PhD, Dudu Ndlovu, 2 March 2015
- The art of dissecting journal articles, Dana Miller-Cotto, 9 March 2015
- How to be a Digital Academic 1, 25 March 2015
- The PhD Viva – Dennis’ Experience & Tips, Dennis Nguyen, 27 March 2015
- The ‘back-up plan’, Lauren, 31 March 2015
- Poster-designing: a warm welcome to hell, Bernie, 6 April 2015
- Part time, if only, Helen Palmer, 10 April 2015
- The mechanic inside me, Thomas Bray, 13 April 2015
- Rex-Fest is here again!, Thomas Bray, 14 April 2015
- How I Manage Time with a Success Plan (1), Ide Haghi, 23 April 2015
- How I manage time with a success plan (2), Ide Haghi, 27 April 2015
- Weathering Research, Thomas Bray, 28 May 2015
- PhD timeline fun, Bernie, 3 June 2015
- Let me tell you a PhD secret, U. Ejiro O. Onomake, 10 June 2015
- The “crap” is not a waste, Tomi Oladepo, 17 June 2015
- 28 Days Later; or, how to survive the summer as a postgraduate, Thomas Bray, 23 June 2015
- Widening participation: Why should you care and what can you do to help?, Ana Kedveš, 13 July 2015
- WP Life: A PhD’s Perspective, Ana Kedveš, 14 July 2015
- Unorthodox tools of a researcher, Salma, 3 August 2015
- Hello from the New Editor, Ana Kedveš, 12 August 2015
- Sacher cake, Gemütlichkeit, and a dissertation grant: What it feels like for a PhD student in Austria, Judith Kohlenberger, 26 August 2015
- On Being Kind in Academia, Ana Kedveš, 2 September 2015
- A Letter to First-Year-Self, Züleyha Ünlü, 9 September 2015
- Open your eyes, open your mind, Bernard Reman, 16 September 2015
- 5 tips for great supervision, Ana Kedveš, 23 September 2015
- A year of postgrad life, Bernard Reman, 30 September 2015
- First Fortnight in Warwick, Thomas Bray, 7 October 2015
- Hang on a minute…, Xiaozhe (Sherry) Cai, 14 October 2015
- 5 things about Warwick Uni Library that can baffle foreign students, Marta Natalia Wróblewska, 21 October 2015
- Is Social Theory the hardest language to learn?, Heather Griffiths, 28 October 2015
- We Need to Talk About Writing, Ana Kedveš, 4 November 2015
- Theses, Novels and Other Hiccoughs, Velid Beganović, 11 November 2015
- Review – Paul J. Silvia: How to Write a Lot, Ana Kedveš, 18 November 2015
- Five Things I Have Done Instead of Writing the Thesis, Thomas Bray, 25 November 2015
- Your Thesis Introduction, Emma Parfitt, 2 December 2015
- How to be a Twitter academic, Sian Williamson, 9 December 2015
- Unorthodox tools of a researcher, Ana Kedveš, 16 December 2015
- PhD Alumni, Your Academic Family, Ana Kedveš, 23 December 2015
- How to Improve your CV while on your PhD, Furaha Florence Asani, 13 January 2016
- On Feeling Accomplished, Ana Kedveš, 20 January 2016
- 5 tips on getting your 1st journal paper published, Salma Patel, 27 January 2016
- On Zebras and PhD Stress, Ana Kedveš, 3 February 2016
- Publishing your work – how to choose a journal, Georgina Collins, 10 February 2016
- All our PhD questions, Ana Kedveš, 17 February 2016
- Day my words grew wings, Bernie Divall, 24 February 2016
- Interview with Avneet Singh: A New Era in Astronomy, Ana Kedveš, 29 February 201
- Women in Academia series on PhD Life, Ana Kedveš, 2 March 2016
- Interview with Dr Donna Yates: On Legos, using Scottish pounds in Nepal and gender-unbiased science, Ana Kedveš, 9 March 2016
- Style is not Anti-Intellectual, Stylish Academic, 16 March 2016
- My mom is writing a book!, Suha Alansari, 23 March 2016
- Beyond the PhD life: Some rules to break and be successful post-graduation, Ana Adi, 30 March 2016
- Thoughts on the 7th LSE Emerging Markets Forum, March 2016, Peter Ward, 6 April 2016
- Take a break! (It’s ok.), Ana Kedveš, 13 April 2016
- Being ‘fit for purpose’ in the modern knowledge economy, Furaha Asani and Billy Bryan, 20 April 2016
- Work and PhD: Finding the balance, Ana Kedveš, 27 April 2016
- How Do You Know If You’re Making Enough Progress in Your PhD?, Devon Allcoat, 4 May 2016
- The Professor is In at Warwick, Ana Kedveš, 11 May 2016
- 10 reasons why a PhD can be challenging for your mental health, Salma Patel, 18 May 2016
- Challenging PhD Challenges, Ana Kedveš, 25 May 2016
- Why I decided to teach during the PhD, Desiree Arbo, 1 June 2016
- Munch before you Crunch, Hafsa Abbas, 8 June 2016
- Review – Graff & Birkenstein: They Say, I Say, Ana Kedveš, 15 June 2016
- Learning to Lecture, Zoë Shacklock, 22 June 2016
- „Not even water…“ How to survive writing your PhD during Ramadan, Jennifer Philippa Eggert, 29 June 2016
- Welcome to British academia. First challenge: introducing yourself, Marta Natalia Wróblewska, 6 July 2016
- Conferences on a budget, Ana Kedveš, 13 July 2016
- PhD, Summer Edition, Ana Kedveš, 20 July 2016
- How to use podcast as a teaching tool: Part I, Dmitrijs Kravcenko, 27 July 2016
- How to use podcast as a teaching tool: Part II, Dmitrijs Kravcenko, 3 August 2016
- On serious academics, Ana Kedveš, 10 August 2016
- Being a PhD and all the rest, Federica de Pantz, 17 August 2016
- 3 things you need to know about the field, Tomi Oladepo, 24 August 2016
- Peer Support, All Aboard!, Ana Kedveš, 31 August 2016
- Organize a conference? Why not!, Sixian Hah, 7 September 2016
- Review – Russell: “Dr Dr, I feel like… doing a PhD”, Ana Kedveš, 14 September 2016
- #DailyPhD: From Lab to Thesis Writing, Megan De Ste Croix, 21 September 2016
- Another befuddled post about “The Third Year”, Ana Kedveš, 28 September 2016
- “This Is It”: How is baking a cake similar to doing a PhD, Ruth Patchett, 5 October 2016
- Speed-reading and note taking strategies, Ceren Kaya, 12 October 2016
- The question I get asked the most often… (And my answer), Anna Gasperini, 19 October 2016
- My relationship with the dead, Thomas Bray, 26 October 2016
- The PhD Horror, Ana Kedveš, 2 November 2016
- A linguist in a roomful of sociologists, Sixian Hah, 9 November 2016
- 10 tips towards PhD thesis submission, Salma Patel, 16 November 2016
- The Evolution of PhD Writing, Ana Kedveš, 23 November 2016
- Postgraduate Recommendation: Summer Schools, Devon Allcoat, 30 November 2016
- PhD and the joy of giving, Ana Kedveš, 7 December 2016
- Fargo Artists and Academics Exhibition: “Inspirational”, “fantastic”, “an unexpected delight”, Emma Parfitt, 14 December 2016
- What I learned about academics from novels, Marta Natalia Wróblewska, 21 December 2016
- How Do You Measure a Year in PhD Life?, Ana Kedveš, 11 January 2017
- Everybody is failing, you just don’t know it!, Ana Werkmann Horvat, 18 January 2017
- Getting Published – A quick FAQ, Jennifer (@j_p_eggert) and Felipe (@fcicafernandes), 25 January 2017
- How to Write an Academic Bio for Conferences, Sophie Shorland, 1 February 2017
- Has anyone seen my motivation?, Ana Kedveš, 8 February 2017
- Still in love after all this time, Bernie Divall, 13 February 2017
- Review – “265 Troubleshooting Strategies for Writers”, Ana Kedveš, 22 February 2017
- All the academia’s a stage…, Ana Kedveš, 1 March 2017
- Di san zhong ren lei – The third kind of human being, Xiaozhe (Sherry) Cai, 8 March 2017
- Back home?, Xiaozhe (Sherry) Cai, 15 March 2017
- Just like everybody else, Xiaozhe (Sherry) Cai, 22 March 2017
- When plans fall through…, Joelin Quigley-Berg, 29 March 2017
- PhD Diary: “Working” from Home, Ana Kedveš, 5 April 2017
- Should you join a dissertation support group?, Noelle Sterne, 12 April 2017
- Six Misconceptions about the Three-Paper Route, Simone, 19 April 2017
- Stories within stories, Bernie Divall, 26 April 2017
- “Racing on the thunder and rising with the heat”: PhD Superpowers, Ana Kedveš, 3 May 2017
- Staying Yourself: How Not to Lose Sight of Who You Are Beyond Your PhD, Maria Cohut, 10 May 2017
- Transferable skills and your PhD, Anthony Knight, 17 May 2017
- 7 Motivational Tips for PhD Students, Hafsa Abbas, 24 May 2017
- Salma’s PhD Viva Experience – Part I, Salma Patel, 31 May 2017
- Salma’s PhD Viva Experience – Part II, Salma Patel, 6 June 2017
- 5 Tips for Managing Your Marking Marathon, Catalina Carpan, 8 June 2017
- Benefits and challenges of tweeting a conference, Ondrej Cernotik, 14 June 2017
- How I live-tweeted my own conference talk, Ondrej Cernotik, 21 June 2017
- Nice to meet you!, Sofia, 28 June 2017
- Looking back to look ahead, Sofia, 5 July 2017
- Words of our lives, Sofia, 12 July 2017
- PhD milestones, it’s all in the celebratory details, Sofia, 19 July 2017
- The hemisphere differentiation effect, Sofia, 26 July 2017
- Relax: you’re not supposed to know what you’re doing, Karen Sutherland, 2 August 2017
- Write It Out!, Adrian Martin, 9 August 2017
- There’s a new king in town, Lucy Richardson, 16 August 2017
- Finding creativity in an interdisciplinary world, Tyler Cochran, 23 August 2017
- Believe in your #PhDshelfie, Sofia, 30 August 2017
- Finishing your PhD in another country, Anna Darling, 6 September 2017
- Becoming kind to your writing, Aya Nassar, 13 September 2017
- Could someone please tell me what to do during conferences?, Chengcheng Kang, 20 September 2017
- Masters and PhD Students: A Match Made in Academia, Mimi Petrakis, 27 September 2017
- Work in progress, Sofia, 4 October 2017
- Publishing your PhD thesis: “Big words. Small print. No sales.”, Felicity Chaplin, 11 October 2017
- How to succeed in academia according to a Nobel Prize Laureate, Felipe Cicaroni Fernandes, 18 October 2017
- Facts, Stories and Strategies: Women and Academia, Belinda Smaill, 25 October 2017
- Becoming kind to others’ writing, Aya Nassar, 1 November 2017
- Notes to my younger self, David Whillock, 8 November 2017
- A pleasant surprise: involvement beyond your thesis, Christina Efthymiadou, 15 November 2017
- Sometimes, Working out Works, Gabriel García Ochoa, 22 November 2017
- When the going gets tough, let me counsel you to seek counselling, Teresa Ambrosio, 29 November 2017
- Beyond the pot of gold, Deb Anderson, 6 December 2017
- Down the Rabbit Hole of Public Engagement!, Michelle Smith, 13 December 2017
- Distribution and Legacies: Engagement and Impact, Ed Vollans, 20 December 2017
- A year in the life of PhD Life, Sofia, 27 December 2017
- PhD Life’s resolutions, Sofia, 3 January 2018
- The virtues and vices of PhD students, Brennan McDavid, 10 January 2018
- The Form of the Good (PhD Student), Brennan McDavid, 17 January 2018
- Winging it at question time (a primer), Adrian Martin, 24 January 2018
- “P” is for PhD… and Parenting, Annabelle Workman, 31 January 2018
- How to find direction when you’re waiting for funding, Jessica Tatchell, 8 February 2018
- Love and its Trials during a PhD, Jenny Mak, 14 February 2018
- Everything you need to know about public engagement, Alice Eden, 21 February 2018
- A change of heart, David Conrad, 28 February 2018
- Bad Advice for Academic Conferences, Sophie Shorland, 7 March 2018
- Being Efficient, Chengcheng Kang, 14 March 2018
- Settling In as an International PhD Student, Jenny Mak, 21 March 2018
- Public Engagement and Employability, Alice Eden, 28 March 2018
- Challenge your inner critic, Chengcheng Kang, 4 April 2018
- Defamiliarise Your Thesis, Sophie Shorland, 11 April 2018
- Rhythms of Writing: juggling inspiration and discipline, Aya Nassar, 18 April 2018
- Rhythms of Writing: writing together, Aya Nassar, 25 April 2018
- Are you making outreach memories?, Alice Eden, 2 May 2018
- A Mindset Shift for the Introverted PhD Student, Jenny Mak, 9 May 2018
- Starting a Startup after your PhD, Chengcheng Kang, 16 May 2018
- Not hell! Being an academic in a non-academic job, Anna Gasperini, 23 May 2018
- Getting started on your thesis as a science student, Olga Degtyareva, 30 May 2018
- Improve your PhD Posture, Sophie Shorland, 6 June 2018
- Motivational Quotes for the PhD Journey, Jenny Mak, 13 June 2018
- 1-2-3 to my Three Minute Thesis, Chengcheng Kang, 20 June 2018
- Publish or Perish! How to Gain a Book Contract, Alice Eden, 27 June 2018
- “Why Should we Publish your Book?” Writing a Successful Book Proposal, Alice Eden, 5 July 2018
- An Introvert’s Guide to Conferencing, Sophie Shorland, 11 July 2018
- What’s your PhD story?, Chengcheng Kang, 18 July 2018
- The Book Proposal: In Detail, Alice Eden, 25 July 2018
- Confessions of a Perfectionist, Jenny Mak, 1 August 2018
- Rhythms of Writing: Writing alone, Aya Nassar, 8 August 2018
- What Makes a Stylish Thesis?: Creating your own Style Guide, Sophie Shorland, 15 August 2018
- At home everywhere, owning none of it, Aya Nassar, 22 August 2018
- A Day in the Life of a PhD Student: Part 1, Sophie Shorland, 29 August 2018
- What Makes a Stylish Thesis? Avoid these Three Big Style Mistakes…, Sophie Shorland, 5 September 2018
- Major Revisions: Dealing with Negative Feedback, Annabelle Workman, 12 September 2018
- Lessons from a Spinning Bike, Jenny Mak, 19 September 2018
- Asking Questions, Chengcheng Kang, 26 September 2018
- Thesis to Book: A Journey, Alice Eden, 3 October 2018
- Dealing with Discomfort during a PhD, Jenny Mak, 8 October 2018
- Thesis to Book: Images, Alice Eden, 17 October 2018
- Postgrad Realities: Juggling a PhD and reaching the finish line, David Richardson, 24 October 2018
- How to review a paper, Chengcheng Kang, 31 October 2018
- Letting Go, Aya Nassar, 7 November 2018
- A Day in the Life of a PhD Student: Part 2, Sophie Shorland, 14 November 2018
- Making your Workspace Work for You, Jenny Mak, 21 November 2018
- On remembering why we teach, Aya Nassar, 28 November 2018
- Operation Endgame, Vanessa Corcoran, 5 December 2018
- How to take the first step when applying for PhDs, Amy Kynman, 12 December 2018
- The evolution of Christmas, Pippa Richardson, 19 December 2018
- Happy New Year! Have you made your academic reflections?, Alice Eden, 2 January 2019
- How to use your own experience of academic research to support others, Julie Robinson, 9 January 2019
- How to survive doing your PhD when you have no funding? (Part 1), Blanka Matković, 16 January 2019
- Keep calm and PhD through, Pippa Richardson, 23 January 2019
- What I learned during my first term as a PhD researcher, Kim Harding, 30 January 2019
- Research students can get involved with societies at Warwick – and they should!, Amy Kynman, 6 February 2019
- Love your data, Julie Robinson, 13 February 2019
- How to survive doing your PhD when you have no funding? (Part 2), Blanka Matković, 20 February 2019
- The Power of Introduction, Jenny Mak, 27 February 2019
- The Ins and Outs of Counselling, Pippa Richardson, 6 March 2019
- My Re-Writing Chronicles (Part 1): Ways of Writing for New Audiences, Alice Eden, 13 March 2019
- How to survive your research degree: Overcoming obstacles and dealing with disappointment, Amy Kynman, 20 March 2019
- Creative Ways to Release Stress, Jenny Mak, 27 March 2019
- Confessions of a demonstrator (1), Pippa Richardson, 3 April 2019
- My Re-Writing Chronicles (Part 2): How do you edit to tell a better story?, Alice Eden, 10 April 2019
- Food for thought: 5 practical tips to improve eating behaviours, Sophie Clohessy, 17 April 2019
- What I wish I knew when I started my PhD, Maria Cohut, 24 April 2019
- How activities and attractions can help you relax during research, Amy Kynman, 1 May 2019
- PhD upgrade: A survival guide, Sophie Clohessy, 8 May 2019
- A State of Transition, Jenny Mak, 15 May 2019
- My Re-Writing Chronicles (Part 3): Methods and Processes, Alice Eden, 22 May 2019
- How to continue your research as an independent academic?, Maria Cohut, 29 May 2019
- Confessions of a demonstrator (2), Pippa Richardson, 5 June 2019
- What is it like to spend term three in a research lab?, Amy Kynman, 12 June 2019
- Viva Worries: Asked and Answered, Jenny Mak, 19 June 2019
- 3 tips on working from home…productively, Maria Cohut, 26 June 2019
- Optimising failure, Pippa Richardson, 3 July 2019
- Why you should book a holiday during your PhD, Sophie Clohessy, 10 July 2019
- Academic? Non-academic? Let’s talk careers, Maria Cohut, 17 July 2019
- Onwards and upwards: preparing to start your PhD, Amy Kynman, 24 July 2019
- “OH NO” moments during your PhD, Jenny Mak, 31 July 2019
- The basics of intellectual property rights, Pippa Richardson, 7 August 2019
- Your Guide to a Digital Detox, Sophie Clohessy, 14 August 2019
- What’s Your Power Colour?, Jenny Mak, 21 August 2019
- When everything goes wrong: How to deal with unexpected during your research, Amy Kynman, 28 August 2019
- Take a Timeout, Sajad Ahmad Rather, 4 September 2019
- A tidy desk is a tidy mind: A guide to decluttering your desk, Sophie Clohessy, 11 September 2019
- A section called life, Pippa Richardson, 18 September 2019
- Why an overseas research visit is a great idea, Emily Cox, 25 September 2019
- Things I wished I knew at the beginning of my PhD, Jenny Mak, 2 October 2019
- New Kid On The Block: How to fit in as a research degree student (Part 1), Blanka Matkovic, 9 October 2019
- 5 reasons to stay fit whilst conducting your research, Sophie Clohessy, 16 October 2019
- Going from a masters to a PhD: Reflections and preparations for moving on, Amy Kynman, 23 October 2019
- Combating workaholism during your PhD, Jenny Mak, 30 October 2019
- New Kid On The Block: How to fit in as a research degree student (Part 2), Blanka Matkovic, 6 November 2019
- The Library: With you every step of the way, Julie Robinson, 13 November 2019
- Transitioning from second to third year: Reflections and advice, Sophie Clohessy, 20 November 2019
- Writing your PhD proposal: What isn’t in the manual?, Katie Hall, 27 November 2019
- A PhD guide to travelling on a budget, Sophie Clohessy, 4 December 2019
- The Superhero PhD Student, Jenny Mak, 11 December 2019
- Christmas and Your Mental Health, Sophie Clohessy, 18 December 2019
- New Year, New Me: Research Resolutions, Sophie Clohessy, 8 January 2020
- On Dealing with Anxiety in a Highly Competitive Environment (Part 1 – Achievement), Alice Cuzzucoli, 15 January 2020
- Mind The Gap: A Guide for International Students, Asep Darmini, 22 January 2020
- In search of more time, Alex Hubert, 29 January 2020
- To Conference or Not To… There is no question, Zakiyya Adam, 5 February 2020
- Winter Blues and PhD Life Asep Darmini, 12 February 2020
- It’s not just art historians who look at pictures, Alice Eden, 19 February 2020
- Surviving the isolation phase, Jenny Mak, 26 February 2020
- Human stories for humans, Deborah Simionato, 4 March 2020
- Fighting with my thesis: juggling a PhD and being a muay thai fighter, Lúcia Collischonn, 11 March 2020
- Take A Break Before It Breaks You, Zakiyya Adam, 18 March 2020
- Professor Mum: On being raised by an academic, Lúcia Collischonn, 25 March 2020
- Support for Warwick PG Research Students, Lúcia (on behalf of the PhDLife Team), 01 April 2020
- PhD and Pandemics: Lessons learnt so far, Asep Darmini, 8 April 2020
- Managing Time in a PhD Merle van den Akker, 15 April 2020
- Singing my way out of COVID-19 isolation, Giles Penman, 22 April 2020
- Fallow Fields, Seeds and Academic Gold Rush in the Corona crisis, A.A., 29 April 2020
- How to Maintain a Good Relationship with Your PhD Supervisor, Merle van den Akker, 06 May 2020
- From Uncertainty to Certainty and Back Again – Finishing the first year of PhD during a pandemic, Giulia Lorenzi, 13 May 2020
- How to make working from home work, Merle van den Akker, 20 May 2020
- On dealing with Anxiety in a highly competitive environment (Part 2 – Confidence), Alice Cuzzucoli, 27 May 2020
- And that’s ok, Zakiyya Adam, 03 June 2020
- How to Survive Being at Home, Merle van den Akker, 10 June 2020
- Online Conferences… the new normal?, Lúcia Collischonn (The Editor), 17 June 2020
- Why is Academia so damn SLOW?!, Merle van den Akker, 24 June 2020
- Isolation Station: Beating the Pandemic Blues as a Researcher, Maria Cohut, 8 July
- PGR in lockdown…My Experience, Charly Southern, 15 July 2020
- Sharing Research Data: Not Just a Funder Requirement, Emily Bassett 22 July 2020
- Searching for Research Data: Navigating Uneven Terrain, Emily Bassett 29 July 2020
- “Your English is so good”, Maria Cohut, 13 August 2020
- How I did a PhD with a broken brain, Alex Hubert, 30 September 2020
- Throwback Post: Confessions of a Perfectionist, Jenny Mak, 7 October 2020
- Going back to the laboratory bench at 64, Tudor Dawkins, 22 October 2020
- Throwback Post: Planning a literature review, Charlotte Mathieson, 28 October 2020
- Pint and PhD: an opportunity for research students to meet and share their work, Giles Penman, 11 November 2020
- Throwback Post: How to Write an Academic Bio for Conferences, Sophie Shorland, 18 November 2020
- A Short Guide to Productive Procrastination, Eduarda de Carli, 25 November 2020
- Throwback Post: Keeping an Annotated Bibliography, Charlotte Mathieson, 02 December 2020
- The Human Library: a digital opportunity for human encounters in a lockdown world, Giles Penman, 08 December 2020
- Throwback Post: 7 Motivational Tips for PhD Students, Hafsa Abbas, 16 December 2020
- Summer Wonderland or Christmas in the Tropics, Lúcia Collischonn, 23 December 2020
- End of the year wrap-up from your blogs editor, Lúcia and the Library Blogs Team, 30 December 2020
- Throwback Post: Relax, you’re not supposed to know what you’re doing, Dr. Karen Sutherland, 06 January 2021
- The Forgotten Skill: Organising your PhD Brain, Ellie King, 27 January 2021
- Throwback Post: Has anyone seen my motivation?, Ana Kedveš, 03 February 2021
- Back to work in 2021, Sky Herington, 17 February 2021
- Throwback Post: How Do You Know If You’re Making Enough Progress in Your PhD?, Devon Allcoat, 24 February 2021
- Writing out the Winter lockdown blues, Giles Penman, 03 March 2021
- Getting Started as a Graduate Teaching Assistant, Sky Herington, 10 March 2021
- Starting my PhD in a Pandemic, Manpreet Kaur, 17 March 2021
- Staying Focused: apps and websites to help you concentrate, Ellie King, 24 March 2021
- Still at Warwick: my reasons for choosing to do a PhD, Manpreet Kaur, 31 March 2021
- Where to Start in the World of Digital Networking, Ellie King, 07 April 2021
- Environmental Sustainability on Campus and Beyond, Manpreet Kaur, 14 April 2021
- Am I working hard enough?, Ellie King, 21 April 2021
- Drawing towards happiness: boosting wellbeing with creative activities, Giles Penman, 28 April 2021
- My many fancy notebooks for all my fancy moments, Manpreet Kaur, 05 May 2021
- Why it matters to invest in yourself: Becoming a rounded researcher, Ellie King, 12 May 2021
- Snapping out of lockdown: Walking and photography for wellbeing, Giles Penman, 19 May 2021
- Things I learned organising an online conference, Lúcia Collischonn, 26 May 2021
- PhD life and pets: the wellbeing benefits of studying alongside furry friends, Giles Penman, 02 June 2021
- Adding rhyme in my research: writing poetry as a chemist, Manpreet Kaur, 09 June 2021
- Cooking during PhD for wellbeing and health, Giles Penman, 16 June 2021
- Adding pauses in your PhD, Manpreet Kaur, 23 June 2021
- OnTrack and Creativity: wellbeing through drawing, Giles Penman, 30 June 2021
- Supervising your Supervisors: How to make it work, Ellie King, 07 July 2021
- A Heavy Load: on PhDing and Lifting Heavy Things, Lúcia Collischonn, 14 July 2021
