PhD Talk

In today's episode, we discuss Rico's experience in replying to the comments of the reviewers on his first journal article.

We discuss the timeline between submission and receiving the comments, as well as what one can expect from various journals here. We also discuss the time it takes to implement reviewer comments and write the rebuttal, as well as the process Rico and his colleagues followed. Their approach (and what Eva uses) is based on working through the comments sequentially, but other authors may prefer to work by topic.

Rico's paper got comments from five reviewers, and we discuss how common it is to receive comments from this many reviewers. We also delve into the way a rebuttal can be formatted - the Excel template Rico used, as well as the Word file with different styles of formatting that Eva uses.

We round of this episode with Rico's lessons learned and best practices.

References

• Previous episode on writing a journal article 
• How not to be reviewer 2 
• When reviewers want you to cite their work
• Reviewers’ comments 

In today's episode, we interview Dr. Marissa Edwards from the UQ Business School at the University of Queensland, Australia. One of the topics she has worked on, is mental health and well-being in students and educators, which is the main topic of today's episode.

Join us to learn more about Marissa's research on whistle-blowing, medical negligence, and mental health and well-being in students and educators.  We dive deep into the topics on mental health in academia: where the current problems come from, and what we can do to improve the situation.

Finally, we learn about Marissa's best advice for PhD supervisors and PhD candidates, the influence of COVID-19 on her daily tasks, and a typical day in the life.

Where to find Marissa online:

• Twitter
• University profile
• LinkedIn
• Voices of Academia blog & Twitter

 Marissa's research

• How Perceptions and Emotions Shaped Employee Silence in the Case of “Dr. Death” at Bundaberg Hospital
• Publications on Google Scholar 
• Journal of Management Education -  editorial 
•  Emotions and failure in academic life
• Social and Emotional Learning in Graduate School to Improve Student Well-Being and Performance: A Proposed Training Program
• Supporting student psychological well-being in the I-O psychology classroom
  
  

Additional resources

• Medical negligence 
• Dr. Death 
• Journal of Management Education  
• Special Issue: “Mental Health and Psychological Well-Being Among Management Students and Educators”
• PhD balance 
• Cactus mental health 
• Dragonfly mental wellness 
• Brene Brown - Daring Greatly, The Gifts of Imperfection, Rising Strong,  Dare to Lead 

In today's episode, we address a number of questions that our listeners sent in through Twitter and other sources. Here's a list of topics we touched upon in this mixed mailbag episode:

• our current work,
• our summer goals, and how much of it we achieved,
• our plans for the fall semester,
• our potential plans for conference travel,
• leaving industry to start working on research, and what that means in terms of salary,
• a week in the life of PhD candidacy,
• any preconceived ideas we had about the PhD or academia that turned out not to be true,
• skills every PhD candidate should have, and
• our favorite books read in 2021 so far

We are happy to receive your questions and answer these in a future Q&A episode!

Reference

• Automate the Boring Stuff with Python - Al Sweigart + Udemy course
• Summer goals post
• Corry Doctorow - Walkaway 
• Maya Angelou - I know why the caged bird sings
• Charles Dickens  - A Tale of Two Cities
• Andy Weir - Project Hail Mary 

In today's episode,  we interview Dr. Ashley Hughes, Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago and a Research Health Scientist at the Edward Hines JR VA Medical Center. She received her doctoral degree in Applied Experimental Human Factors Psychology in 2016 and Masters in Modeling and Simulation in 2013 from the University of Central Florida. Her research extends human factors in health informatics to improve work processes, such as technology uptake and data use, to enhance coordination of care. Her work is widely published, is currently funded by NIH institutes, and her work is recognized by various local and national awards. 

We discuss Ashley's research on the use (and barriers to use) of technology in medicine, as well as some of the surprising findings from her work and link to physician burnout. 

The main portion of the episode is dedicated to the topic of student debt: how to avoid student debt by getting PhD funding, the long-term consequences of student debt, as well as the experience of Ashley herself, and her observations on what has changed between when she did her PhD and today. We also discuss her best advice with regard to funding the PhD for current and future PhD candidates, as well as their supervisors.

Finally, we round off with our general questions on setting boundaries, the influence of COVID-19 on her work and daily tasks, and what a day in the life looks like for Ashley (and the role of coffee in a day in the life).

Where to find Ashley Hughes and her work online

• Ashley’s university profile
• Google scholar profile
• Researchgate profile
• Twitter profile

References to topics discussed

• Taking Action Against Clinician Burnout: A Systems Approach to Professional Well-Being. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine 2019. 
• Electronic Health Record Usability Issues and Potential Contribution to Patient Harm  - Howe et al. 2018 
• Kaiser Health News - Death by a thousand clicks 
• The T32 and Individual awards: from NIH and from NSF
• Loan repayment plan

In today's episode we continue on the topic of the literature review. In previous episodes, we discussed our reading habits, and today we take a deeper dive into what comes after reading all these interesting articles: writing the literature review. This episode focuses on writing the literature review section for a journal article as well as writing the literature review chapter of the PhD thesis.

We discuss several ways of processing the information from the articles we read, and how to structure this information into a coherent review. We also discuss what literature reviews are not, and some common pitfalls in writing a literature review. We round off with a discussion on what is important in writing a literature review, and some tips from the perspective of a reviewer and journal editor.

References

• Episode 14: Reading the literature
• Episode 16: How to search for articles
• Episode 17: Systematic reviews: interview with Jonathan Guillemot
• Endnote
• Zotero
• Mendeley
• Papers
• Bibtex
• Raul Pacheco-Vega: Delving into an entirely new topic and doing a literature review, performed with an example (on hospital ethnography)
• Raul Pacheco-Vega: Writing your literature review based on the “Cross-Reference” column of the Conceptual Synthesis Excel Dump (CSED)
• Raul Pacheco-Vega: Literature reviews, annotated bibliographies and conceptual synthetic tables
• PhD Talk: Organizing your literature review
• PhD Talk: Top 3 tips for literature review success

In today's episode, we interview Dr. Hao-Ting Wang. She is a Postdoc Fellow at University of Sussex and Brighton and Sussex Medical School. Originally from Taiwan, she completed her BSc in Psychology in National Chengchi University, and then a PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience at University of York, UK. Her work involves brain-behavioral phenotypes discovery using functional MRI in large open access datasets. Working with large neuroimaging datasets ignited her interests in computation reproducibility. She is an active contributor of Python libraries Nilearn, Nibabel and Pydra.

We discuss her career path and recent research, as well as how she gained her interest in machine learning throughout her research. We get an insight in her findings on what our brain does while our mind is wandering.

The main topic of today's episode is how to finance PhD studies, and the government loan that Hao-Ting used for this purpose. We also discuss the long-term implications of taking a loan for studies, and how this choice influenced the daily life and activities available to Hao-Ting.

Finally, we round off with our standard questions on boundary settings, day in the life, impact of COVID-19 and best advice.

References 

• Hao-Ting's github
• Hao-Ting's Twitter
• Hao-Ting's Google Scholar
• Python
• Bored and Brilliant 
• Default mode network 
• Task negative
• Brainhack collaborative
• ERC grants

In today's episode, we discuss how to select the right journal for your article.

When it comes to selecting a journal, we discuss how to get the right advice and which tools you can use to decide where to send your article.

We also discuss other topics to consider when selecting a journal: time to decision, indexation, copyright, open access, and other aspects that can be important for you to make a decision.

We then round off with a discussion with our best tips for making your article as suitable as possible for the journal you have selected - from carefully checking scope and audience to practical tips such as using the right template.

References

• Elsevier journal finder 
• JANE
• AmeliCA
• Sherpa/ Romeo
• Redalyc
• Scopus
• ISI Web of Science

In today's episode of the podcast, we interview Horacio Perez Sanchez, who is a professor in Spain and host of the podcast Investigando la investigacion. He is the principal investigator of the "Bioinformatics and High Performance Computing" Research Group at the Universidad Catolica San Antonio de Murcia.

We talk about his background, and current research. We also learn how much computing power his research requires, and how he finds this computing power available - methods that currently are popular and methods that were used in the past.

We also learn more about academia in Spain, and what Horacio's days typically look like, as well as how becoming a parent changed his working style.

References

• Investigando la investigacion 
• Research group website 
• Free bioinformatics tools
• Time blocking
• Getting things done
• Trello
• Asana
• Weekly review
• Lean management techniques

In today's episode, we discuss Rico's experience of writing his first journal article. We discuss how much of the research was done before Rico and his coauthors started writing the paper. We also learn about their co-creation process of writing in work sessions through videoconferencing.

Another topic we discuss is what Rico experienced as the easiest and hardest parts of the process, as well as how much time the group of authors took to write the article.

In addition, we discussed the steps of the manuscript submission system, and some particularities of some journals such as requiring a cover letter and suggesting reviewers.

We round off discussing what Rico might have done different in hindsight.

At the end of the episode, Rico asks Eva about her experience in writing her first journal paper, and what she remembers of the process. For Eva, writing the first paper was certainly a longer process than for Rico.

References

• Inkscape
• PhD Talk for AcademicTransfer: Don’t make these nine mistakes when you write a journal paper
• From PhD Thesis to Journal Papers

In today's episode, we interview David Cañarte, who recently got his PhD in the department of Sociology and Criminology & Law at the University of Florida. David, who is originally from Ecuador, has a background in design and marketing. He has studied in Ecuador, the Netherlands, and the United States.

We talk about David's meandering career path, and how his path and his wife's path have developed over these years. We also learn about David's research on social networks of immigrants, and how he shifted to this topic. Then, we dive into the methods that David used during his doctoral research and discuss the tools he used for this purpose. We also learn the complications David faced for his data analysis as a result of COVID-19 lockdowns, and how his work was impacted by the situation in his home country.

After managing to finish his PhD during the global pandemic, David was faced with the challenge of defending his doctoral research online. We learn his best tips for defending through videoconferencing.

Finally, we round off the interview with a discussion on how to set boundaries to work, and learn how academic couples can set boundaries together. We learn David's best advice for PhD candidates, and -closely related to setting boundaries- get a glimpse at the day in the life of David.

References

• Joseph O.Baker, David Cañarte,and L. Edward Day. 2018. “Race, Xenophobia, and Punitiveness Among the American Public” The Sociological Quarterly 59(3):363-383.
• Raffaele Vacca, David Cañarte & Tommaso Vitale (2021) Beyond ethnic solidarity: the diversity and specialisation of social ties in a stigmatised migrant minority, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, DOI: 10.1080/1369183X.2021.1903305
• David's profile on the website of the University of Florida
• More about David's doctoral research in Spanish
• Follow David on Twitter
• How to prepare for a Zoom viva
• R
• Igraph
• Igor