Hold on to your receipts! In this episode of PhD Pending, we chat to Dr Trisha O'Connor about her experience with travelling abroad to to do archival research for her PhD project. We dive deeper into how she prepared for the trip, what challenges she ran into, and Trisha shares her tips on how to make the most of your time with historical sources, and what to watch out for when dealing with funding money.

About Trisha: Trisha is a Digital Humanities researcher from Cork, Ireland. She is currently working as a Postdoctoral Research Assistant at CLASP: A Consolidated Library of Anglo-Saxon Poetry, an EU-funded project based at the Oxford Faculty of English Language and Literature. She is also  the Communications Officer for the Text Encoding Initiative, a consortium which collectively develops and maintains a standard for the  representation of texts in digital form. She completed her PhD in Digital Humanities at University College Cork (UCC), fully funded by the College of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences in UCC (2014-16), and by the Irish Research Council (2016-2018). Her PhD research involved encoding the scribal practices, palaeographical and codicological features, and the complex mise-en-page of Cambridge, Corpus Christi  College MS 41 (CCCC41) in Text Encoding Initiative Extensible Markup Language (TEI-XML). She is currently creating a digital documentary edition of CCCC41, which cogently combines the text and digital facsimiles of CCCC41 to enable researchers to study the manuscript’s marginalia within their textual environment. When she is not encoding Old English and Anglo-Latin manuscripts she enjoys hiking, rockclimbing, bodyboarding and kayaking.

Trisha's Twitter: @trishaoconnor88

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In this episode, we chat to Jianing Li about her experiences of navigating her cultural identity as a Chinese woman in medieval studies, one of the most Eurocentric fields of study in the humanities. We dive deeper into what challenges she faces with university admin, struggles with systemic racism, the importance of supportive supervisors and mentors, and regaining your voice and claiming your space in a male-dominated, white space in academia.  

About Jianing: Jianing has recently completed her PhD in medieval literature. She originally comes from China. Her research interests vary from medieval romance, to post-colonial history, to modern comics. Outside of her professional work, she’s a proud dog mum of a Corgi called Merlin.

Find Jianing's Twitter here: @IvyLi919

If you like our content, support PhD Pending by heading to our Buy Me A Coffee page and donate: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/phdpendingpod. This episode of PhD Pending was written and produced by Anne Mahler. Get in contact with PhD Pending on Twitter and Instagram @phdpendingpod or via email to [email protected]. Jingle by Scott Holmes ("Our Big Adventure," licensed CC BY-NC 4, available at www.scottholmesmusic.com, free for use, copy and redistribute in any medium or format, under Creative Commons).

In this episode, we chat to Marthe-Siobhán Hecke about the German PhD system. How does it work? How much teaching is involved? What does the application process look like? And what? No student fees?! Find out more in this week's deep dive!

Find Marthe-Siobhán's Twitter here: @1hecke

If you like our content, support PhD Pending by heading to our Buy Me A Coffee page and donate: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/phdpendingpod. This episode of PhD Pending was written and produced by Anne Mahler. Get in contact with PhD Pending on Twitter and Instagram @phdpendingpod or via email to [email protected]. Jingle by Scott Holmes ("Our Big Adventure," licensed CC BY-NC 4, available at www.scottholmesmusic.com, free for use, copy and redistribute in any medium or format, under Creative Commons).

In this episode, we sit down with Catherine Styles and chat about her experiences with having a baby midway through her PhD. We dive deeper into how she prepared her research for maternity leave, how she manages the workload of her PhD and childcare, the parallels between mum guilt and imposter syndrome, and Cat shares her tips on how to stay sane as a parent who is also an early-career scholar.

Find Cat's Twitter here: @pea_green_boat

Catherine Styles is a part-time PhD student at the University of Bristol. Her current research focuses on female monsters in early modern literature, looking at what it is about women that men are so afraid of. Other research interests include witchcraft & the supernatural, fairy tales, and gender & sexuality in early modern literature. She has a one year old son called Harry who was not only born mid-pandemic, but also part way through her PhD.

If you like our content, support PhD Pending by heading to our Buy Me A Coffee page and donate: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/phdpendingpod. This episode of PhD Pending was written and produced by Anne Mahler. Get in contact with PhD Pending on Twitter and Instagram @phdpendingpod or via email to [email protected]. Jingle by Scott Holmes ("Our Big Adventure," licensed CC BY-NC 4, available at www.scottholmesmusic.com, free for use, copy and redistribute in any medium or format, under Creative Commons).

In this final episode of our PhD Productivity series, we once again welcome productivity guru and podcaster Jeff Sanders  to talk about PhD productivity hacks. This time, we talk about learning how to say no and setting boundaries to be able to focus on our most important tasks. We also answer some of your questions that you submitted on Instagram and Twitter.

About Jeff Sanders: https://www.jeffsanders.com/

Jeff is a keynote speaker, productivity coach, author of The 5 AM  Miracle, The Free-Time Formula, and founder of The Rockin’ Productivity  Academy. He is also the host of The 5 AM Miracle Podcast, which has ranked #1 in Apple Podcasts in the Self-Improvement and Business  categories, been nominated for 6 Podcast Awards, and exceeded 10 million downloads. Jeff has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Theatre and Psychology  from Truman State University in Kirksville, Missouri. He and his wife,  Tessa, live in Nashville, Tennessee with their daughter, Maisie, and  pug, Benny.

If you like our content, support PhD Pending by heading to our Buy Me A Coffee page and donate: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/phdpendingpod. This episode of PhD Pending was written and produced by Anne Mahler. Get in contact with PhD Pending on Twitter and Instagram @phdpendingpod or email us [email protected]. Jingle by Scott Holmes ("Our Big Adventure," licensed CC BY-NC 4, available at www.scottholmesmusic.com, free for use, copy and redistribute in any medium or format, under Creative Commons).

In this episode, we once again welcome productivity guru and podcaster Jeff Sanders to talk about PhD productivity hacks. We unpack what to do with the time that we have freed up by managing our productivity better, and how to implement a system to do deep focus work, a strategy that Jeff coins “Focused Blocks of Time”.

About Jeff Sanders: https://www.jeffsanders.com/

Jeff is a keynote speaker, productivity coach, author of The 5 AM Miracle, The Free-Time Formula, and founder of The Rockin’ Productivity Academy. He is also the host of The 5 AM Miracle Podcast, which has ranked #1 in Apple Podcasts in the Self-Improvement and Business categories, been nominated for 6 Podcast Awards, and exceeded 10 million downloads. Jeff has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Theatre and Psychology from Truman State University in Kirksville, Missouri. He and his wife, Tessa, live in Nashville, Tennessee with their daughter, Maisie, and pug, Benny.

If you like our content, support PhD Pending by heading to our Buy Me A Coffee page and donate: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/phdpendingpod. This episode of PhD Pending was written and produced by Anne Mahler. Get in contact with PhD Pending on Twitter and Instagram @phdpendingpod or email us [email protected]. Jingle by Scott Holmes ("Our Big Adventure," licensed CC BY-NC 4, available at www.scottholmesmusic.com, free for use, copy and redistribute in any medium or format, under Creative Commons).

In this episode, we welcome productivity guru and podcaster Jeff Sanders to talk about PhD productivity hacks. We dive deeper into time management and how to deal with distractions, boundaries, to-do lists, and multitasking, and what we can do when we feel overwhelmed and drowning in work. We also cover how we can most effectively deal with distractions like emails, and working in a shared office space.

About Jeff Sanders: https://www.jeffsanders.com/

Jeff is a keynote speaker, productivity coach, author of The 5 AM Miracle, The Free-Time Formula, and founder of The Rockin’ Productivity Academy. He is also the host of The 5 AM Miracle Podcast, which has ranked #1 in Apple Podcasts in the Self-Improvement and Business categories, been nominated for 6 Podcast Awards, and exceeded 10 million downloads. Jeff has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Theatre and Psychology from Truman State University in Kirksville, Missouri. He and his wife, Tessa, live in Nashville, Tennessee with their daughter, Maisie, and pug, Benny.

If you like our content, support PhD Pending by heading to our Buy Me A Coffee page and donate: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/phdpendingpod. This episode of PhD Pending was written and produced by Anne Mahler. Get in contact with PhD Pending on Twitter and Instagram @phdpendingpod or email us [email protected]. Jingle by Scott Holmes ("Our Big Adventure," licensed CC BY-NC 4, available at www.scottholmesmusic.com, free for use, copy and redistribute in any medium or format, under Creative Commons).

PhD Pending is back with season 5 on Wednesday, 17th November 2021! In this new season, I am very excited to bring you a 3-part series all about PhD productivity, and of course more of the PhD Pending content that you know and love. We will welcome new guests, and have some returning friends of the show on as well.

Until then, please subscribe on your favourite podcast app, rate us 5 stars, and leave us a review. I’m looking forward to seeing you back here in two weeks for our first episode of season 5!

If you like our content, support PhD Pending by heading to our Buy Me A Coffee page and donate: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/phdpendingpod. This episode of PhD Pending was written and produced by Anne Mahler. Get in contact with PhD Pending on Twitter and Instagram @phdpendingpod or email us [email protected]. Jingle by Scott Holmes ("Our Big Adventure," licensed CC BY-NC 4, available at www.scottholmesmusic.com, free for use, copy and redistribute in any medium or format, under Creative Commons).

In our season finale, we sit down with Jianing Li, Luciana Lilley, and Tifany Soga to review Netflix's The Chair. We chat about the key themes, how accurately it matches up with our experiences in academia, and unpack some of its more problematic moments.

The Chair was released by Netflix earlier this year. For everyone who hasn’t had a chance to watch it yet, Netflix summarises the plot of the first season as follows: At a major university, the first woman of color to become chair tries to meet the dizzying demands and high expectations of a failing English department.

Find Jianing's Twitter here: @ivyli919

Find Luciana's Twitter here: @LilleyLuciana

Find Tiff's Twitter here: @tiffsoga

If you like our content, support PhD Pending by heading to our Buy Me A Coffee page and donate: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/phdpendingpod. This episode of PhD Pending was written and produced by Anne Mahler. Get in contact with PhD Pending on Twitter and Instagram @phdpendingpod or email us [email protected].

In a spontaneous follow-up episode to 4.06 Co-Authoring a Journal Article, Anne and Miranda sit down to discuss updates on their recent co-authored journal article submission. We discuss the reasons behind long turnaround times for publications in the humanities, how the peer-review process works, and reveal the reviewer feedback we received, our reaction, and our next steps.

Find Miranda's Twitter here: @middleagedwitch

Miranda Corcoran is currently a lecturer in twenty-first-century literature at University College Cork. She’s currently writing a monograph on adolescence and witchcraft in American popular culture. She is also the co-editor (with Steve Gronert Ellerhoff) of Exploring the Horror of Supernatural Fiction: Ray Bradbury's Elliott Family (Routledge, 2020). She has published articles in The New Ray Bradbury Review, Supernatural Studies and The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship. She is a host on the New Books in Literary Studies podcast and a regular contributor to the online magazine Diabolique.

If you like our content, support PhD Pending by heading to our Buy Me A Coffee page and donate: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/phdpendingpod. This  episode of PhD Pending was written and produced by Anne Mahler. Get in contact with PhD Pending on Twitter and Instagram @phdpendingpod or via email to [email protected].