For those of you who’ve followed the blog for a long(er) time, you’ll have realised that I did make the decision to leave academia after...

The main point for me to start this blog was to be able to disseminate academic work to an audience that was much wider than academia....

A while back I wrote an article about how I would have done things differently moving into the field of behavioural science. Overall, I...

With the new year coming up, is there really a better time for some self-reflection? Of course not! Leading question aside, I thought I’d...

Throughout my annual PhD reviews I have kept you up to date on my progress as a behavioural PhD student. I had good years, I had bad...

Ignorance isn't bliss with this one. You’ve submitted your thesis. The PhD thesis, that is. Congratulations! You must feel very...

As always, when a year in the PhD comes to an end, my review of said year emerges. It has become tradition on this blog for me to reflect...

Academia is forever innovative. And I don’t mean that in a “driving excellent research” kind of way, although that also happens. No, I...

When entering a PhD, or realistically, entering any type of job or career trajectory, it is difficult to establish at once what you...

I have said it once and I will say it again: don’t do a PhD if you can try and avoid it! Now this may sound slightly ironic coming from...

I have just started to write the first part of my fourth year PhD review, as I like to reflect on each term as it has just ended. It...

It has become tradition on this blog for me to reflect on each part of the PhD process. As my third year in the PhD comes to an end, and...

Hey everyone! If you’ve been following this blog for a while, or if you’ve ever just checked the general overview, you can see that I’ve...

Oh yes, it’s everyone’s favourite phrase. Not. Publish or perish is the unofficial slogan for academia. It describes quite accurately...

What are you going to do after your PhD? It is a much dreaded question for every PhD student, whether you’re near the end or not. But...