Advice and tips from our current doctoral students and colleagues within the Doctoral College, about doctoral student life. If you would like to contribute a blog, please get in touch at doctoralservices@mmu.ac.uk
You are not alone in this
For something that almost every student will experience whilst at university, especially during your PhD, loneliness is not a thing that students talk about on a daily basis. Doing a PhD during a pandemic is hard enough without the added stress of loneliness and anxiety. Recently I had an…
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How to focus when you can’t – and other tips(!)
It’s always a pleasure to meet new research students at the beginning of your journey at my Managing your Research Project development session each year. However, I’m aware right now that there are lots of you (us!) having to…
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My learning goal for 2019: Asking better questions
I don’t really do new year resolutions, but in the past I have set myself what we might call ‘learning goals’ each year. Over the course of last year, for example, I wanted to become better at empathy. Whilst…
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