We were thrilled to recently have the chance to chat to Adam Grant.

We have been hoping to make contact with Adam for a while. We admire his approach to life and to academia and were delighted to chat with him! Reading his bio below, we think you will agree that he has much to offer us as researchers and Doctoral students.

Adam Grant has been Wharton’s top-rated professor for six straight years. He is a leading expert on how we can find motivation and meaning, and live more generous and creative lives. He has been recognized as one of the world’s 25 most influential management thinkers and Fortune’s 40 under 40.

He is the author of three New York Times bestselling books that have sold over a million copies and been translated into 35 languages. Give and Take examines why helping others drives our success, and was named one of the best books of 2013 by Amazon, Apple, the Financial Times, and The Wall Street Journal—as well as one of Oprah‘s riveting rea

This week’s podcast is a bit shorter than usual – we wanted to share our writing weekend with you! We call them ‘Writing Retreats’. We head to a neutral place (coffee shop, library, office) and set ourselves very specific goals.

We love this way of working as it lets us get into the headspace of our research and delve in deep for a longer period of time.

Listen now to learn about how we structure, plan and reward ourselves during our writing times!

This week we are chatting about productivity! We know…it’s a massive buzz word! But we promise to share some practical tips for becoming more productive with your work and/or study.

In the show we refer to the following resources:

This week on the podcast we are chatting about two data generation tools that we both use, and find very useful! They are called CID’s and PMMMs. A CID is a Collaborative Interactive Discussion and a PMMM is a Personal Meaning-Making Map….

Learn more about these tools for qualitative research in the podcast!

In the podcast we refer to a few resources, that you can find below:

In this episode, we are chatting about the Lit Review. Love it or hate it, the lit review is a core component of any research paper. There are a number of ways to approach the review but whatever you choose – know that a lot of reading is in your future!

A couple of references we talk about that you might find helpful:

How to write a PhD literature review

5 ways to tame the literature dragon

How to become a literature searching ninja

This week we are chatting about a philosophical theory that we both use in our research. It’s called Positioning Theory and Professor Rom Harre is a leader in the field…

This week we are chatting about a book we love – Deep Work by Cal Newport. Find it here.

Find the article we referred to here. A quick but great read and introduction to the idea of Deep Work.

And learn more about Thesis Bootcamp from the Thesis Whisperer here.

Here is episode 1!

This time we are discussing our research questions, why they are important and how they are still changing!

We refer to Professor Dinham’s recent workshop we attended and you can find his article here.