I took a holiday from May 9th through May 17th. If we wouldn't have had a global pandemic, I would have traveled to Delft on May 8th. As this date was drawing nearer, and I saw the itinerary on my…
I was doubting if I should write this post at all. We all made goals for 2020, and then sars-cov-2 came around and laughed very hard. But at least, the first months of the spring semester were normal.My work goals…
I've noticed that I've been wanting to compare my weekly templates from previous semesters, but did not keep track of them. So I decided to put my weekly template for the Summer of 2020 here, for reference (week of June…
Has anybody been counting how many days it's been since we got locked down? We know that in Quito, the stoplight remains in "red" (i.e. full lockdown) at least until the end of the month, with the exception for a…
Today, I have invited Dr. Annisa Sidi to talk about her digital PhD defense. Annisa Sidi did her PhD thesis on national identity and multiculturalism in Indonesia at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand. She is part of…
Today, I have the pleasure of inviting Mansi Tyagi, a journalism graduate who works as an academic content writer for an e-publishing company. She has over two years of experience in social media marketing. In her post, you'll learn what…
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…
I recently ran a poll on Twitter to learn which % of PhD students do their PhD in part-time. In my research group in Delft, I've seen the number of part-time PhD students increase and of the two (soon two…
I recently ran a poll on Twitter to learn how much time it takes it get a PhD - in number of years. The results are sort of expected: 1/3rd takes less than 4 years, 1/3rd between 4 and 5…
Today, I have the pleasure of hosting Yvonne Tse Crepaldi, who shares her insights from the PhD defense. Yvonne Tse Crepaldi obtained her PhD in Linguistics 2017 from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Her doctoral research was about how a two-year-old…
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