Three tips to help you (or you students) fall in love with your PhD: Take time away from and deprioritise the PhD. Get to know your student/supervisor. Host and participate in department, school and faculty activities. Transcript: I was having a chat with my mate, Craig Harper the other day and he was asking me […]
How to Fall in Love with Your PhD
Three tips to help you (or you students) fall in love with your PhD: Take time away from and deprioritise the PhD. Get to know your student/supervisor. Host and participate in department, school and faculty activities.
How to Fall in Love with Your PhD
There’s a difference between, “it is hard”, and “it is killing me”. So much of what people tell you when you sign up to do a PhD – from within and without academia – is that “you’ll hate it”. Or “you won’t enjoy it”. Or “PhDs are meant to suck”.
Keep on Playing…
Download as PDF I’m part of a soccer team. And every year at exam time or report time or assignment time, people prioritise their study over soccer. Mainly training, but sometimes games too. When this message comes late (i.e., 5 pm, when training is at 7 pm) that’s annoying. But as a player, I think […]
Having Tough Conversations with Your Student
Download as PDF Just like talking to your superiors can be tough, so too can talking to your students. Indeed, there are many similarities.