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…
Poll for PhD students only! Are you:— Dr Eva Lantsoght (@evalantsoght) January 20, 2020 I recently ran a poll on Twitter to see which percentage of PhD students are parents, as Olga and I were wondering about this data for…
I've been thinking about the topic of napping lately. As I was reading Rest by Alex Soojung-Kim Pang, which shows that high-achievers in the past built naps into their daily schedules, and later Why we sleep by Matthew Walker, which…
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…
Dominique Maciejewski did her bachelors in psychology in Wuppertal, Germany. In 2011, she came to the Netherlands for an internship at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. It was supposed to be a 3-month internship, but Dominique really liked the Netherlands and…
For those of you who have been following this blog for a while, you know that I think planning is an essential skill to get work done. I plan at different levels, and the tools that I use for this…
I recently ran a poll to see if most of us have clean or messy desks - or something in between. I work at four desks: my home, my office in Ecuador, my office in the Netherlands, and my room…
I ran a poll on Twitter to see what is academics' favorite form of exercise. By a small margin, cardio wins the poll. Here's the wake of the poll:
Today's guest post is by Dr. Nadine Sinclair. Dr. Sinclair is one of the Founders and Managing Directors of Mind Matters, a boutique consulting firm based in Malta. Mind Matters advises large corporations on strategy and R&D topics and offers…
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