Top Tips from International Doctoral Students: Lele
Completing our blog mini-series, this blog is by Lele who has shared her advice for new international students settling in to a new country for their doctoral degree. Below we have shared Lele’s top tips. When I first moved…
Read MoreTop Tips from International Doctoral Students: Heather Xu
Continuing with our blog mini-series, here is another student blog sharing top tips for international doctoral students moving to a new country. Below is Heather’s advice. Moving to a new countryAt first, everything felt unfamiliar—I didn’t always understand what…
Read MoreTop Tips from International Doctoral Students: Tommy Bui
In this blog mini series, we’ve asked a couple of our international doctoral students to share their advice and top tips for settling into a new country for a doctoral degree. Below we’ve shared Tommy Bui’s advice! Upending and…
Read MoreThe Certificate: Neat, Official, but Only Part of the Story
My PhD certificate finally arrived this week and to my surprise, I felt a bit sad! No champagne popping, no leaping around the room, just a quiet anticlimax that made me stop and think: this piece of paper doesn’t…
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