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Your PhD Survival Guide - Planning, Writing, and Succeeding in Your Final Year (Hardcover)
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Your PhD Survival Guide - Planning, Writing, and Succeeding in Your Final Year (Hardcover)
Series: Insider Guides to Success in Academia
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The 'Insider Guides to Success in Academia' offers support and
practical advice to doctoral students and early-career researchers.
Covering the topics that really matter, but which often get
overlooked, this indispensable series provides practical and
realistic guidance to address many of the needs and challenges of
trying to operate, and remain, in academia. These neat pocket
guides fill specific and significant gaps in current literature.
Each book offers insider perspectives on the often implicit rules
of the game -- the things you need to know but usually aren't told
by institutional postgraduate support, researcher development
units, or supervisors -- and will address a practical topic that is
key to career progression. They are essential reading for doctoral
students, early-career researchers, supervisors, mentors, or anyone
looking to launch or maintain their career in academia. Accessible,
insightful and a must-have toolkit for all final year doctoral
students, the founders of the 'Thesis Boot Camp' intensive writing
programme show how to survive and thrive through the challenging
final year of writing and submitting a thesis. Drawing on an
understanding of the intellectual, professional, practical and
personal elements of the doctorate to help readers gain insight
into what it means to finish a PhD and how to get there, this book
covers the common challenges and ways to resolve them. It includes
advice on: Project management skills to plan, track, iterate and
report on the complex task of bringing a multi-year research
project to a successful close Personal effectiveness and self-care
to support students to thrive in body, mind and relationships,
including challenging supervisor relationships. The successful
'generative' writing processes which get writers into the zone and
producing thousands of words; and then provides the skills to
structure and polish those words to publishable quality. What it
means to survive a PhD and consider multiple possible futures.
Written for students in all disciplines, and relevant to university
systems around the world, this unique book expertly guides students
through the final 6-12 months of the thesis.
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