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
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…
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Top 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…
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Top 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…
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The 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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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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