Peer support for your dissertation
If you're writing your Masters dissertation, you'll feel less isolated if you set up a dissertation support group with other students.
Improve your critical thinking
Critical thinking is a skill you already have, put to work in a new environment. It gets easier with practice.
Keeping motivated
You may want to launch into your most difficult task first. But if this feels intimidating, start with the quick, simple jobs.
The art and craft of editing
Use focussed tasks to turn editing from a fuzzy, depressing process into a proactive, task-based operation with clear goals.
Three key tips for effective proofreading
Trying reading your work aloud, recruiting a proofreading buddy, and converting your text into an unusual font to spot your errors.
Using Zoom to encourage peer learning
Use your Zoom workshops to create space for dialogue, for sharing experiences, and for building relationships with others facing the same challenges.
Keeping up the energy
Learning and teaching online isn’t just about moving a face-to-face workshop to Zoom.
How to stay motivated
When writing your thesis, you may find that you go through moments of disengagement and even be tempted to give up. If this happens, try to reconnect with your passion for the subject.
Writing training for different stages of a PhD
Writing training for PhD students is best when it is differentiated for each year group.
Communicate and collaborate
Lucy English As PhD students and researchers, communicating with people outside our discipline can open our minds, expand our horizons and help to develop our thinking. It can also lead to fruitful collaboration. In a session for PhD researchers about…
