The Best Way to a Successful PhD
Arjenne Louter, better known as The Dutch PhD Coach, is starting a new course titled, "The Best Way to a Successful PhD". Before the course, there will be a free webinar on March 27th (you ALL should attend this, my…
PhD Talk for AcademicTransfer: Academic Culture and the PhD Experience
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…
Writers’ Lab: How the writing assignment contributes greater knowledge to PhD students
Today in the Writers' Lab (which has been rather vacant for a while) I have the pleasure of hosting William Delgado, a professional writer. Have you wondered how the people behind paid essay writing services feel about writing, and which…
Top 3 tips for literature review success
Today I have the pleasure of hosting Dr. Ben Libberton, who shares his best advice for the literature review with us. Ben is a Postdoc at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. He’s a microbiologist with a degree from the…
My PhD schedule
I recently got the following question, on which I'd like to expand here.Could you share your PhD schedule?Throughout my PhD, I consistently started my day around 8am, which was often the starting time of my experiments, and which is the…
Adjunct positions in academia
I recently came across an infographic discussing adjunct professorships. Even though I've been lucky to find a tenure-track position, I do follow a bit the struggles adjunct faculty members are having.A few side thoughts to this infographic:1. Doing a PhD…
Workloads in academia
I recently had a short discussion on workloads in academia, after seeing in my ManicTime charts that I had worked 100 hours a few weeks earlier - which pretty much translates to working every waking hour. You can find the…
PhD Talk for AcademicTransfer: How to manage a research project
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…
Inbox Zero: Getting your mailbox under control
Now that time is shorter than ever for me, e-mail is one of the things I am processing in a very organized way.Last January, I achieved Inbox Zero. For those of you not familiar with the term: it simply means…
Why are there so few women tenured professors?
Sheryl Sandberg asks: "Why are there so few women leaders.", and in academia, we wonder: "Why are there so few women tenured professors?".I'm not qualified to give an answer to this question - and the answer itself is rather complex.…