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Navigating the PhD Journey: Encouraging Tips and Insights

Embark on the enlightening PhD journey with tips and insights straight from a recent graduate. Discover the essence of a postgraduate identity, overcome impostor syndrome, and construct your best empirical argument. Engage with your supervisors effectively, cherish your research experience, and find your unique working style. Remember, success is within reach, so enjoy the process and believe in yourself!

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Navigating the PhD Journey: Encouraging Tips and Insights

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  1. It’s all worthit! A brief (and hopefully encouraging) talk about the journey ahead

  2. My perspective Straight from undergrad Little wider experience – ‘institutionalised’ perspective? Little work experience with which to compare PhD Transport studies (not ‘my’ research) Just coming to the end of my PhD now

  3. Whatis a PhD about? ‘Successfulpostgraduatesemergewith a new identity as competentprofessionals, able to argue theirviewpointwithanyoneregardless of status, confident in theirownknowledge but alsoaware of itsboundaries… To arrive atthis point iswhatbeing a postgraduateresearchstudentisreally all about.’ (Phillips & Pugh, 2005, p. 4)

  4. Tips for your team • Work out the strengths of eachsupervisor • Try and encourage regular face-to-face time • Theymay not have you and yourresearch on theirmind 24/7. Gentlereminders of your existence are completely OK and oftennecessary!

  5. Tips for yourresearch • Keepgoing! You willgetthere if you put the hours in – treatitlikeanyother job • Don’tmeasureyourprogressagainstother PhDers • Take time to enjoyyourresearch • Yourthesiscan’t – and won’t – be ‘perfect’. It’s about constructing the best empirical argument thatyoucan and defendingthat argument against critique

  6. Tips for you • Talk to other PhDers as often as possible • Getcomfortablewithyourownway of working • Make a definitePhD/non-PhDdivide • Everyonefeelslike an ‘impostor’ at times…

  7. “Impostor syndrome” (it’s a real thing!) • ‘Despite external evidence of their competence, those with the syndrome remain convinced that they are frauds and do not deserve the success they have achieved. Proof of success is dismissed as luck, timing, or as a result of deceiving others into thinking they are more intelligent and competent than they believe themselves to be…’

  8. “Impostor syndrome” (it’s a real thing!) • ‘Despite external evidence of their competence, those with the syndrome remain convinced that they are frauds and do not deserve the success they have achieved. Proof of success is dismissed as luck, timing, or as a result of deceiving others into thinking they are more intelligent and competent than they believe themselves to be…’ • ‘It is commonly associated with academics and is widely found among graduate students.’ • (Lucas, 2008)

  9. Key points • Talk to people • ‘Take charge’ of yoursupervisors • Go easy on yourself • You can do it, soenjoyit!

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