دانلود کتاب The Ultimate Guide to Doing a PhD

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Contents
About the Author
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Section 1 Should You Do a PhD?
1 Reasons to NOT Do a PhD
1. You didn’t know what else to do
2. You just want to be a Dr
3. Your family expects you to
4. Everyone else seems to be doing it
2 A Critical Evaluation of Reasons to Do a PhD
1. You want to be an academic
2. You want to continue working in research
3. A PhD will give you a large advantage in the job market
4. You have a keen interest in studying a specific topic/project
3 The Practicalities of Doing a PhD
What?
Why?
Where?
Who?
When?
How?
The Uno reverse card
4 Biggest Misconceptions of Doing a PhD
1. Everyone around you is smarter or better at research
2. You have a clearly defined role
3. Your supervisor is in charge of the project and is in control
4. The project you applied with will be the project for your PhD
5. You’ll just be doing research, nothing else
6. There will be a lot of collaboration on projects within your research group
7. A PhD will end up being similar to a 9–5 job, working 40 hours a week
8. In a PhD, you will have to promote yourself less
9. Your project is awesome and people care about it as much as you do
10. You won’t get that much feedback as it’s YOUR project
5 So Should You Do a PhD?
Section 2 Applying to the PhD
6 Finding a Topic
7 Finding a University
8 Finding a Supervisor
9 Finding Funding
10 Getting Your Documents in Order
11 How to Survive an Interview
12 Offers and Rejections
13 Concluding Remarks
Section 3 Starting the PhD!
14 Settling in
15 Coursework
16 Planning the Research
17 My Supervisor and I
18 First-Year PhD Review
Coursework
Interdisciplinarity
Socializing
Research
19 Concluding Remarks
Section 4 Getting on with the PhD!
20 Structure Amidst Chaos
21 Teaching
22 Conferences
Finding conferences
Attending conferences
Presenting
Networking
23 Writing It All Down
24 The Publication Journey
25 Time Management and Multi-Tasking
26 Taking Breaks
27 Mental Health
28 Failure
29 Talking Supervisors (Again)
30 What Do You Want from the PhD?
Staying in academia
Moving into industry
Doing both?
31 Mentoring
32 Knowing When to Quit
You’re crying at the best of times
Managing mental health
Quitting, pausing or switching?
33 Doing a PhD Is Not Enough
34 PhD Review, Year 2
Coursework
Self-reliance and structure
Teaching
Research
Mental health and distractions
35 PhD Review, Year 3
Term 1
Term 2
Term 3
Summer term
Plans for year 4
The third year summarized
36 Concluding Remarks
Section 5 Finishing the PhD
37 Balancing the PhD with the Job Hunt
38 Leveraging Contacts
39 Mental Health Revisited
40 A Good PhD Is a Finished PhD
41 Submission!
42 Final-Year PhD Review
Term 1
Term 2
Term 3
Summer term
Conclusions and announcements
43 Things I Would Have Done Differently
44 Concluding Remarks
Section 6 PhDone! Now What?
45 The Anti-Climax of Submitting
46 The Break?!
47 The Viva
48 Concluding Remarks: The Aftermath
Conclusion