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When you're in a situation where you feel you have nowhere to turn, you need to go as high as possible till you get a fair hearing and positive changes start to happen. In academia, go to the head of …

I am getting a little worried about my PhD application. I submitted it three weeks ago with reference requests going out to Prof A and B. …

I'm going to answer this question myself for the benefit of people who may stumble upon this in the future. In the end I didn't email the convenor, but I phoned the Prof in question. I initially tho …

Your post is quite vague and it's hard to know what you mean by saying this 60 year old professor doesn't care about his students. Is he not supportive, does he not reply to emails, does he not give g …

I am in the fourth year of a part-time PhD. Lately I have found it very difficult to stay focused. …

I have posted here before about the issues with my PhD, but now I get the feeling that I am suffering from burnout and I need to know what to do next. … I am currently five years in to a seven-year part time PhD. I am supposed to be collecting field data for a write-up but I have not done any work for a year. …

EDIT: I should clarify this is not the first draft of my PhD, it's the first draft of my upgrade document to go from MPhil to PhD. … I have to submit my upgrade document [MPhil > PhD] in about five week's time, and the viva is a week after that. …

I think the first thing would be to involve some staff in the group, if only one or two members. If one asks to be another admin [they may not do], it's worth considering, but it will be useful to hav …

[Edited] I am very shortly going to be sending off my PhD application. … I should mention that a staff member in my choice of PhD uni has already approved my proposal and agreed to be my supervisor. …

The temptation is to get the ball rolling asap so that the PhD application process proper can start and little time will be lost. … PhD topic research is a little tricky. It can take a long time to come up with a title. Concentrating on a PhD topic/research whilst completing your thesis will only risk the quality of your work. …

If 'bibliography' is a list of literature and 'discography' is a list of musical recordings, is there a term for a list of interviews? Of course I could just cite everything under 'references' but m …

I am currently writing my literature review for my PhD upgrade and even though I am featuring a lot of work, I am not focusing that much on how my work builds on those of the cited authors. …

Just spend time enjoying what life has to offer away from your PhD. If you can, spend a couple of nights away in a different city. …

I am in the fourth year of a part-time PhD. I have at least another couple of years left, the next two years are for writing up and this year was supposed to be for data collection. … I now have three months 'off' but I am thinking of not not doing any work but doing things how I want to do them: I have enthusiasm again for the PhD and am starting to get filled with ideas. …

I am applying for my PhD currently [in Music]. Part of the application concerns sending a CV. … However, I have done many music-related things over the years [A&R, promotion, journalism etc] and have constructed a CV around these for my new application as 'relevant experience' to the PhD. …