Posts tagged research community
Sussex Diaries: “One Year On” - Reflections and Lessons from the PhD Community

After a year since the UK went into a nationwide lockdown, the Research Hive Scholars at the University of Sussex asked their fellow Doctoral Researchers to tell them about their experiences of completing a PhD during a pandemic. There has been much discussion about the difficulties that PhD students have faced over the past year, funding difficulties, challenges fostering a working environment, and field work delays to name a few.

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Perspectives on Starting a PhD in a Pandemic

Starting a PhD, at the best of times, is an overwhelming combination of literature reviews, training sessions, orienting oneself to the start of a long academic commitment and, if we're lucky, the excitement of finally pursuing a passion project. But starting a PhD in a pandemic offers a whole set of emotional, technological and logistical upheavals.

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