After leaving academia, for example at the end of a Ph.D. project, some research and projects might still be unfinished and on-going, and formally leaving academia for a job elsewhere therefore may not be the end of the relation and ties to it. Continue reading…
When you near the end of your PhD or postdoc project, you aim at wrapping up all projects and results, so that you get the last results and manuscripts submitted. And you likely do not manage to finish everything, and interesting work and results therefore remain unpublished. So what do you do? Continue reading…
Scientific papers and authorships increasingly constitute the currency in which researchers and scholars are evaluated and assessed. Publishing interesting work in the right journals is crucial when it comes to academic employment and funding for future research. Continue reading…
This post is the third and final in a series on writing the Ph.D. thesis. In the first post, I covered aspects related to preparing the thesis writing, while in the second tips and strategies to get started writing the thesis were presented. In this final post, I cover the last part of the thesis writing process; finishing and submitting the thesis. Continue reading…
This post is the second in a series with tips on writing the Ph.D. thesis. In the first post, I shared tips for preparing to write the thesis, which can make the entire writing process a lot smoother and very rewarding. In this second post, I focus on tips related to getting started writing the thesis. Continue reading…
The Ph.D. thesis is “La Grande Finale” of a big research project and an ideal place for passing on knowledge, insight, and ideas to other researchers and future Ph.D. students. At the same time, writing the thesis can seem like a daunting task, akin to climbing a mountain. Continue reading…
An important part of writing the Ph.D. thesis (or any other long document) is to actually write and avoid stalling in fear of the writing not being perfect. The text will never be perfect, especially not the first time writing it, and is better approached iteratively in a “write, correct, write, correct, write, correct,…” sequence. Continue reading…
A Ph.D. thesis is the climax of a Ph.D. project where several years of studying, reading, thinking, creating new ideas and knowledge – and a lot of hard work! – is collected into a single, coherent document that puts all of the efforts and contributions into a scientific context and form. Continue reading…
“A scientific experiment, no matter how spectacular the results, is not completed until the results are published. In fact, the cornerstone of the philosophy of science is based on the fundamental assumption that original research must be published; only thus can new scientific knowledge be authenticated and then added to the existing database that we call scientific knowledge.” Continue reading…