Skills - Information Management Three Reminders to Myself on the 'Nature-based' Database In Day 5 of my word challenge, I consider databases by giving myself three nature-based reminders on how to make them.
Skills - Writing Get Serious - Call Writing a "Manuscript", Not a Draft In Day 4 of my word a day challenge, I consider how using the word 'manuscript' can change your thinking around writing.
Skills - Time Management Annual Planning for PhD Students: A Feel-Good Bottom-Up Approach Overwhelmed by annual goals? Try this approach instead that builds upon what you enjoy at the day to day level.
Skills - Time Management My 2024 Journey: What Worked, What Didn't, and What's Next A look back at 2024, what worked and what didn't, and a look forwards to 2025.
Newsletter The Ecology Behind Why Your Progress Feels Slow (And Why That's OK): 🧠 Brain STREAM 2️⃣8️⃣ If anyone is slow to grow, it's me. But I'm at peace with that, because I understand the ecological principles behind it.
Skills - Information Management Building a Second Brain for Your PhD: A Researcher's Guide to PKM Like an overgrown garden where seeds had been scattered randomly, my PhD research was everywhere. Discovering PKM has helped to transform this chaos into a thriving ecosystem of connected ideas.
PhD - Day-to-Day Predictable Imbalance; The Hard-Wired Nature of Efficiency Let’s reframe the Pareto Principle towards predictable imbalance and limiting factors we can practically apply within our research.
Newsletter Why the ‘Rule of Three’ is such a powerful concept 🤯: Brain STREAM 2️⃣3️⃣ There's more to the Rule of Three than you might think.
PhD - Day-to-Day Making Email as Low Stress as I Can: 🧠 Brain STREAM 19 Struggling with email imbalance? Here's 7 Principles I use to reduce stress in my inbox and beyond.
Newsletter 🧠 Brain STREAM 18: When Things Get Hard We can still make progress when things get hard. What are some of the things we can do in the days and weeks like these?
PhD - Day-to-Day Daily Work Habits For PhD Students and Researchers Reduce the friction by developing regular habits to help you stay on top of everything.
Newsletter 🧠 Brain STREAM 17: Networking (😱) Mention the word networking and most of us flee or freeze in fright. In this week's newsletter I discuss three strategies I use to improve my networking ability.
Newsletter 🧠 Brain STREAM 16: Make problems work for you, not against you This weeks newsletter looks in detail about problems.
PhD - Day-to-Day Featured Problems in PhD Research Are a Blessing Not a Curse Problems in research are not just there to test you, they are there to make you. In this blog post I highlight Tara Brabazon's three step process to "Put the Problem Into the Work".
Newsletter 🧠 Brain STREAM 14: Identify Your Beavers This week beavers help to frame the idea to find the things in your life which have a disproportionately large effect relative to their effort or cost.
Resources - Books Featured Book Review - "Feel Good Productivity" by YouTuber, Ali Abdaal An in depth and honest review about YouTube star, Ali Abdaal's book "Feel Good Productivity". Should you read it?
Skills - Writing Featured How To Set Up a Low Stress PhD Writing Routine Use these 10 suggestions to help de-stress the writing of your PhD.
PhD - Day-to-Day Compound Your PhD Research Process Through Practising Daily Habits and Routines I'm a firm believer in small daily habits compounding into greater things. By focusing on developing regular habits we can benefit from the influence of compounding, and reap the beneficial impacts on time in the longer run.
PhD - Before What Is It Like Doing a PhD? As a current PhD student, I discuss what it's like doing a PhD - the good and bad bits, plus what I'd do differently.
PhD - Day-to-Day Unleash Your Inner Creative: 17 Methods I Use For Endless Inspiration So, so many creative ideas are included in this post; a whopping 17 ideas (and I could go on). Sit back relax and let your creativity juices flow!
PhD - Starting Can I Do a PhD in 35-40 Hours a Week? Keeping a PhD to 35-40 hours a week is a great strategy, but can it be done?
Skills - Writing Academic Writing Month ('AcWriMo'): Time to Focus on Writing Academic Writing Month takes place across the world in November each year - will you take on the challenge and write 50,000 words for your PhD in a month?
PhD - Day-to-Day What Motivates Me to Do a PhD and How Do I Keep it Up? Discover 13 different ways to find and maintain motivation throughout your PhD.
Skills - Time Management How To Make a PhD Timeline Template in Word I've created a step-by-step guide to create a super easy and professional looking PhD timeline template. Or download my ready made templates.
Skills - Time Management Why Most Plans and Goals are Like an All You Can Eat Buffet More often than not people take the all you can eat buffet approach to planning out their research. Read on to find out a healthier approach.
