How to PhD - your academic survival guide

Welcome back to "How to PhD," Season 2, Episode 6! In this episode, Arun and Julia are your guides on a journey to boost and maintain your writing motivation. Writing is at the core of every PhD, but staying motivated can often feel like an uphill battle. Arun and Julia share their own experiences and dive deep into valuable insights and strategies to reignite your passion for writing.

Discover how to visualize and track your progress effectively with word counts, goal setting, personal writing journals, calendars, and more. Learn how your surroundings and the people around you can either hinder or elevate your motivation and productivity. Find out how writing groups and feedback can keep you in the writing zone. Plus, unlock the power of free writing to conquer writer's block and unleash your creativity.

Join Arun and Julia in this episode as they empower you with practical tools and techniques to maintain your writing motivation and make steady progress on your PhD journey. Don't forget to treat yourself for your achievements and take breaks to recharge. If you enjoy "How to PhD," please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts, visit our website at howtophd.show, and consider supporting us through Buy Me a Coffee. Spread the knowledge by sharing this episode with fellow PhD students who could benefit from these valuable insights. Thanks for tuning in!

In Season 2, Episode 5 of "How to PhD," hosts Arun and Julia address the daunting issue of dealing with intimidating supervisors during your PhD. They dive into why supervisors can be intimidating and provide actionable strategies to manage these relationships effectively.

Their advice includes depersonalizing the situation, understanding your supervisor's perspective, and maintaining open communication. Arun and Julia emphasize the importance of concise communication, getting to know your supervisor's preferences, and seeking opportunities to impress. They also stress the need to set boundaries to maintain a healthy work-life balance.

If you're navigating intimidating supervisors in your academic journey, this episode offers valuable insights to help you thrive. Share it with others who might benefit and consider supporting "How to PhD."

We're back! This week we're delving into the world of procrastination. But importantly, we talk about techniques that actually address the root-cause of procrastination!

Join us as we give you the tools you need to kick the habit and make the most of your time

We've talked a lot about publishing in journals, but this week, we're diving in deep and going into all of the little secrets of journal publications. Learn all metrics, authorship and even maximising your citations!

Keywords are often an afterthought, but actually can be incredibly useful in ensuring your work gets the biggest reach possible. This episode, we don our SEO keyword optimisation hats and share some smart little tricks to choose the best keywords for your journal paper!

We're back!

Maintaining productivity and being consistent is one of the cornerstones of a successful PhD. This week, we share some simple changes you can make if you feel you’re not making the most of your time. It’s not about working harder, but more focussed!

A very brief update on the show and when we'll return! Thank you to the entire How to PhD community for continuing to listen to the show! It means so much to us and we can't wait to come back!

Often we think of knowledge gaps as the key thing to aim for in a PhD, but actually there are many more types of gaps that can be just as powerful and useful! Tune in to learn about the many types of research gaps and a very simple tool to help you identify which ones you'd like to pursue!

Balancing spending time on journal papers vs writing your thesis chapters is a tricky one. This week, we have everything you need to know on how to find that balance between the two and what you need to prioritise during your PhD!

Never get replies to emails? Find that your supervisors don't actually answer your questions? A lot of these problems can be traced back to how you write your emails. 

This week, we're going to be talking about some super simple things you can start doing straight away to optimise your email writing and hopefully get much more responses!