Today I have the pleasure of inviting Stephanie Echeveste to share her views on social media in academia. Stephanie is the community manager for USC Rossier Online, which offers aDoctor of Education (EdD) in Change and Leadership program delivered online…
Today, I'd like to present you all a little goldmine of information I recently stumbled upon: "The Essential #Edchat Resource Guide" via USC Rossier's EdD. This guide is a 3-page document that contains tons of information from the #EdChat community.…
Today, I have the pleasure of hosting Seán Mac Fhearraigh, who will discuss his thoughts on life after the PhD - a topic on which I've seen a lot of discussion here on the blog as well as on Twitter…
Dear readers,For quite some time now, I've been faithfully posting each Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday at 6pm Central European Time, with a short break in the flow of posts during the Winter holidays. Regardless of how busy work got, I…
This post is part of the series PhD Talk for AcademicTransfer: posts written for the Dutch academic career network AcademicTransfer, your go-to resource for all research positions in the Netherlands. These posts are sponsored by AcademicTransfer, and tailored to those…
Some time ago, I wrote a post about how to construct the outline of your dissertation. If you haven't read it: here's the summary of the idea. If you simply sit down one day and expect that you can start…
I recently presented a paper titled "Practical Application of Transverse Load Redistribution in Reinforced Concrete Solid Slab Bridges" at the 9th conference on Short and Medium Span Bridges in Calgary. The abstract of the paper is the following: For an…
At IABMAS 2014 in Shanghai, I presented a paper titled "Recommendations for the Shear Assessment of Reinforced Concrete Solid Slab Bridges". The abstract of the paper is: As a result of the heavier live load models and more conservative shear…
Over the past year, I've been mostly focused on writing. As I finished my dissertation, I started to work on the journal articles that I want to publish from my dissertation, which completely covered the time I was spending working…
While being smart can be a necessary condition for making it to the end of your PhD (or, more general, for being successful in life, regardless of what you do), it is not the only important factor. It might not…
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