Tag Archive for ‘PhD’
Reflections on taking the intellectual carving knife to your PhD thesis
I remember very distinctly the moment when I first took a figurative carving knife to my PhD thesis. I was in a careers workshop at a conference and a senior academic had just explained how the oh-so-rational metric of the… Read More ›
“The PhD is in need of revision”: a Canadian perspective
The PhD is in need of revision, writes Rosanna Tamburri of the Canadian online newspaper University Affairs. After completing five years of study towards his PhD in English at Queen’s University, Ian Johnston dropped out. To those who have similarly… Read More ›
The Accidental Sociologist is having a bit of an identity crisis….
There’s a moment in Heart of Darkness when, Kurtz, at the instance of his death, cries ‘The horror! The horror!’ The terror, madness and awful spectre of what has been and what is yet to come lie before him and… Read More ›
The Accidental Sociologist
This is The Accidental Sociologist – a place in which I will be holding court on the wonderful myriad of ways in which getting somewhere entirely by happenstance can result in great things. The column has its origins in a… Read More ›
Wanted: Ph.D. student to put Harriet Martineau back in the sociological canon
Harriet Martineau (1802-1876) was one of the most remarkable women of letters – perhaps ever. Her body of work ranged across the social and biological sciences and even theology. Wikipedia gives a good introduction to the breadth of her writing…. Read More ›
University student folklore…and labour market uncertainty?
SI continues its traditional weekend review of 21st century student youtube-folklore with two songs. Our mums and dads played the guitar in scruffy student dorms full of thick nicotine smoke; today’s creative souls practice in front of webcams and flood… Read More ›
Why am I doing a PhD? By Sarah Smart
As I sit in my quiet but chaotic study, staring out of the window and wondering whether I can justify stopping for another cup of tea, I find myself wondering why I have spent the last three years doing social… Read More ›
Dancing your… PhD?
Writing a doctoral thesis can often turn into a solitary affair, perceived by everybody (sometimes even by the author) as a terribly complicated and neverending excercise. This project offers a fun way of bringing PhD theses from various disciplines –… Read More ›