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PhD Survival Guide: Use Operant Conditioning to get S%^t done
Posted On July 27, 2020

Being a psychology PhD student, I wanted to discuss one of my favourite psychology theoretical frameworks that I use to motivate myself. Operant Conditioning is a learning theory identified by Skinner …

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PhD Survival Guide: How to treat your PhD like a job
July 13, 2020

I am sure that like me, you have said to multiple people during your thesis experience that “My PhD is a job” or “I am going to work”. As PhD students …


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PhD Survival Guide; How to celebrate the small stuff
June 15, 2020

In previous blog posts, I have wrote about how celebrating the small stuff is really important whilst working on your PhD (or doing any job or university degree for that …


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PhD Survival Guide: How to write about a complicated theory/ idea
June 8, 2020

Break it up into small time periods- Reading about theories can be draining. I often break up my day so that I only work on this task for 30 minutes …


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PhD Survival Guide; The Slump
June 1, 2020

*This is a throw back post that I originally published in 2018, when I was in the damn slump* When I first started my PhD two years ago, I heard whispers …


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A Case of Workaholism
May 28, 2020

I am a workaholic. There is no denying that. People who know me know that I work a lot. I have had a really interesting relationship with my workaholic tendencies. …


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PhD Survival Guide: What I learnt during my first year of teaching
May 18, 2020

I started teaching undergraduate psychology courses in the second year of the PhD. The first courses I taught were an introduction to psychology course & a sustainable tourism course, which …


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PhD Survival Guide; If YouTube Didn’t exist
May 11, 2020

1) I wouldn’t know how to correctly export data from SurveyMonkey into Excel 2) I wouldn’t know how to graph in excel 3) I wouldn’t know how to clean my data 4) I …


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The drag of publishing my PhD
May 8, 2020

I have just submitted my revisions for a journal article publication, and man was it a drag. It felt as though I was crawling to get these revisions done. I …


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PhD Survival Guide: Playlist #1
April 27, 2020

If you are needing some playlist inspiration to get you through those long writing hours, here you go.  Liability- Lorde Anywhere- Passenger Cassidy- Brett Dennen Towers- Gretta Ray Mykonos- Fleet Foxes Runaway- Ziggy Alberts Dojo Rising- Cloud …