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By Richard Parfitt | Organising a conference is one of the many things that PhD students do to boost their experience, promote their research, and enhance their CVs. Earlier this year, I arranged a conference with a couple of fellow… Continue Reading →
By Richard Parfitt | Last year, I wrote a blog on here giving my best tips for planning and writing chapter drafts of your thesis. I was pretty confident back then. Writing is my favourite part of the PhD process…. Continue Reading →
By Richard Parfitt | If, like me, you get to the end of your master’s degree and you run out of energy or (probably) money, or you just want to take some time to decide whether to take your academic… Continue Reading →
By Richard Parfitt | I’ve been having something of a moral dilemma as we begin the new academic year. After offering my services to pretty much everybody I could think of, I’ve been able to get myself some limited teaching… Continue Reading →
By Richard Parfitt | Every year, on the 12th July (‘the Twelfth’), members of the Orange Order march to commemorate the anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne. At this battle, near Drogheda on the Irish east coast, the Protestant… Continue Reading →
By Sara Brouwer | By the time I sat down to write the proposal for my PhD research, I knew that I wanted to learn the local language of my research setting. The empirical part of my research takes… Continue Reading →
By Xander Brehm | It’s better to travel well than to arrive. Even though summer feels like an arrival, a months-long break from dusty library stacks to crack open Pimms and trash Rose Lane, even though some of us… Continue Reading →
By Richard Parfitt | Getting your writing started early is something that most supervisors will say is vital from the off. Generally speaking, the advice is not to spend two and a half years gathering research before you actually get some… Continue Reading →
By Richard Parfitt | The music used by the various presidential campaigns vying for the top job at in the US have been chosen very deliberately. Since I work on music and politics, I couldn’t resist the temptation to pick them… Continue Reading →
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