Being a research student means pushing yourself out of your comfort zone. For blogger Greta, this meant taking a leap from a qualitative social sciences-based research to a computational one, and in the process, learning to love programming. In this week’s blog, Greta shares her passion, talking you through how to push yourself in the... Continue Reading →
Welcome to the new bloggers!
It’s a new term of a new academic year, and so now is a good a time as ever to say hello to the new bloggers and hello again to our continuing bloggers for PhD Life! This week, editor Ellie gives us a tour of the team behind the blog. By Ellie King The PhD... Continue Reading →
Reflections of a PhD Student: One Month In
In October, Warwick alumni Emily began her PhD at the Institute of Cancer Research, she shares her October reflections and advice here, one month into her studies. By Emily Alger Emily graduated from Warwick this summer. Image: Emily Alger. As I write this, I’m on my first ever conference in Cambridge – first attending a... Continue Reading →
On the Thesis Path: The Final Push
For the past year, we have been following blogger Lucia on her road to submission. We've been through spells of positivity, difficult times, conference panels, and even a trip back home. Now, it is the time to submit. If you'd like to read her journey so far, you can read posts from January, February, March,... Continue Reading →
Ticking Time Bomb: Eighteen Months to Go
After a year in industry, blog editor Ellie is back to her PhD and has eighteen months until funding runs out and the thesis needs to be handed in. In this week blog, she shares all her thoughts. By Ellie King I’ve received the email from Student Records telling me I need to re-enrol. My... Continue Reading →
Too many tabs open: Doing a PhD with ADHD
Imagine you’re cycling through 50 browser tabs at once, 2 of them are playing different TedTalks from YouTube at full volume and another is stuck in a 5-second loop of that song you heard the other day – oh, and you can’t close any of them. Now imagine, saturated in all that noise, you have... Continue Reading →
PGR Possibilities: The Doctoral College and life beyond your department
The Doctoral College at Warwick is the university body you all belong to, but you may never have realised! As Warwick PGRs, it’s your one-stop shop for all things PhD, as well as a gateway to university life beyond your department. Pierre Botcherby, PhD Life blogger and PGR Development Officer in the Doctoral College, takes... Continue Reading →
Welcome to PhD Life
Welcome to Warwick. Congratulations on starting your research journey, and we wanted to give you a special welcome from the PhD Life blog. This blog is part of Warwick Library and is written and organised by researcher and for researchers. We publish a post every week, on Wednesdays at 2.30pm, providing you with all the... Continue Reading →
Anticipating what’s to come: My PhD journey begins
You’ve finished your degree and summer is over: your PhD is about to start. but you have a summer ahead before you PhD starts. Emily shares her anticipations and thoughts as her PhD journey comes ever closer. By Emily Alger I’ve graduated from Warwick and very soon I’ll start my PhD. I’ve had two... Continue Reading →
Things I learned doing a year in industry
Since November 2021, I have been doing a maternity cover placement at my research partner: Oxford University Museum of Natural History. It’s been a year of learning, excitement, successes, and reflection. As I now come to the end and get ready to re-enrol as a student here at Warwick, I wanted to take a minute... Continue Reading →