If you don’t have a scholarship, a student loan or a family who can support you, but you still wish to do a PhD, you’ll be facing several dilemmas. Obviously, you will need to fund yourself somehow, but doing your research, writing a thesis and struggling financially at the same time can be very challenging.…
How to secure funding for your PhD, if you get admitted, is probably one of the most stressful issues the majority of prospective PhD students are facing. The number of scholarships, grants and awards is limited compared to the number of applications, and very often the main obstacle is not getting an offer, but sorting…
Your abstract has finally been accepted for that conference you have been oogling since your masters degree but, conference budget has already been spent elsewhere… Do not despair, there still might be ways to attend. Between my masters and PhD I’ve been to quite a few conferences with very little funding and, even now, I’m stingy…
Exploring the emotional processes involved in both being and becoming academic
Musings of a nutty professor in the making
Molding Research in the mainstream
Because there's always room for improvement
The evolving tale of my PhD as it happens
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Language, Digital Media and the Family
