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Krysten Blackstone | For the past two years, I have been one of the PhD students that does the ‘Welcome to the University’ talks to incoming Masters and PhD students. The session is a chance for the newbies to ask on-degree… Continue Reading →
By Elke Close ¦ After Laura’s uplifting post about rediscovering your groove, this week I want to give you a little advice on what to do when you cannot stand the thought of anything remotely connected to your PhD thesis. Most… Continue Reading →
by Elke Close | In the past, there have been many posts using analogies to explain our PhD journey. It has been compared to many things: Game of Thrones, an intimate relationship, a video game… The list seems endless. Yet… Continue Reading →
By Laura Harrison | It started, as so many things do, at a wine reception. Early in our orientation at the University of Edinburgh, the first year PhDs had a class on the virtues of maintaining a social media presence, and… Continue Reading →
By Elke Close | As an ancient historian, one of the questions I get asked most often is: ‘So if you’re working on something that happened over 2000 years ago, what sources are you using?’. The answer is that, thankfully, classicists… Continue Reading →
By Sarah Cassidy | Having just returned from three days of intense interaction with people outside of my own discipline (eek), I think some reflections on the Burn Retreat are in order. Annually, PhD students from the University of Edinburgh go… Continue Reading →
By Laura Harrison | This past Friday I somehow found myself attempting to articulate my thesis to a group of academics in under three minutes. If you haven’t heard of the 3 Minute Thesis competition, essentially you have three minutes, one… Continue Reading →
By Roseanna Doughty | Last Saturday I attended the Scottish premiere of A Terrible Beauty. This was the last instalment in the Secret Histories: Screening Irish History series, which was hosted by the Edinburgh Filmhouse, in conjunction with the University of Edinburgh’s… Continue Reading →
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