Preparing for a PhD
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Graduate study will challenge you in different ways to undergraduate study. For guidance on preparing for a PhD and on dealing with these new challenges please view the information below.The following websites and articles provide useful insights, hints and tips from current and former PhD students from across the globe, who share their experience of graduate life.
Websites and Articles
The Vitae website contains information to help you get started and addresses issues relating to both the technicalities and less tangible aspects of completing a PhD. For further information on Managing your Research Project and for your PhD planner entitled ‘Planning a doctorate schedule for success’ please visit the website. Planners will be available to all new PhD students at the College’s induction and from the Graduate School training room during the course of the year.
The Graduate School’s Researcher Development Programme is a wide-ranging programme of workshops and courses for PhD students at all stages. New students may find it very helpful to attend the course “Starting Your PhD”. Further details of all the training and development available to PhD students can be found here.
Current and former PhD students share their experiences of postgraduate life on Find A PhD website.
'Starting Off on the Right Foot' is an article from the Science Careers website (from the journal Science).
The Graduate School’s Researcher Development Programme is a wide-ranging programme of workshops and courses for PhD students at all stages. New students may find it very helpful to attend the course “Starting Your PhD”. Further details of all the training and development available to PhD students can be found here.
Current and former PhD students share their experiences of postgraduate life on Find A PhD website.
'Starting Off on the Right Foot' is an article from the Science Careers website (from the journal Science).