

How to Survive Your PhD

About this course
You need to be smart to begin a PhD - but you need to be resilient to finish one. Between one-quarter and one-third of all research students never finish their degree. The PhD is an emotional journey as much as it is an intellectual one.
What kinds of emotions does the research degree process provoke? What strategies can help students deal with the emotional highs and lows? How can academic advisors, family and friends help research students cope with these stresses - and celebrate the successes?
This course is primarily designed for masters, PhD, and research students and the academics who are tasked with helping them, but you may also be a family member or friend of a PhD student who is seeking to better understand what your loved one is going through.
By directly addressing the emotional issues, and by helping us see the connections between emotional resilience and success, this course aims to help us all create a more supportive academic environment, where students can do their best research work.
At a glance
- Institution: ANUx
- Subject: Communication
- Level: Advanced
- Familiarity with the basic concept of research study (such as Honours, Masters, or PhD processes).
- Some insider knowledge of academic life and tertiary education is advantageous, but not essential.
- Language: English
- Video Transcript: English
What you'll learn
- Understand the common emotional experiences of research students and why they tend to have emotional issues in common.
- Discuss and create strategies and approaches to help research students cope with the emotional challenges of research study.
- Help academics and prospective academics become more effective research supervisors.
Week one: Setting the scene Prior research on research student success and failure shows that there are a range of common factors at play. We examine these factors and start to look at the causes. Week Two: A quick history of the doctorate To better understand how and research degree study can be so difficult we will take a brief tour back to the late middle ages and the birth of the university - as a place and an idea. Week Three: Confidence We take a look at confidence, in particular why some students have very little. We’ll explore the imposter syndrome and how we might counter it and then have a look at the risks of over confidence. Week Four: Frustration This week we look at frustration. Research can be very frustrating, but writing is perhaps the site of most of the frustration that students feel. We explore the nature of this frustration and how supervisors can make it better - or worse. Week Five: Loneliness Loneliness and isolation seems to be a common problem for research students - but how does it happen? We look at the difference between social isolation and intellectual isolation. We tackle the difficult problem of how much help a supervisor should really give a student. Week Six: Fear Research students are high achievers who often have an intense fear of failure. We look at two fears in particular - fear of writing and fear of speaking in public. Week Seven: Curiosity Good researchers are curious creatures! Curiosity is crucial to research, but what happens when curiosity gets out of control? This week we focus on the literature review as a site where curiosity can get out of control. Week Eight: Confusion Confusion is an inevitable part of the research degree process - but do research students get confused about the same sorts of things? Week Nine: Boredom A research degree usually involves a big project that takes place over an extended period of time. It’s inevitable that some students will get bored. But boredom is much more interesting than you might think! Week Ten: Love Do researchers always love their work? What about love for your supervisor - is that appropriate? If you truly love your discipline, how should you behave as a researcher? This week we look at Love - and it’s complicated.
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Invitation to Dissertation Defense
You are cordially invited to attend a dissertation defense on Thursday, Feb. 24, at 2:30 p.m. Laura McCarthy will be presenting her dissertation research entitled, Students’ reports of a synchronous classroom community : A case study of a rural northeastern community college.
Please email Laura, [email protected] , for the meeting link.

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Email Template 1 (Pre-Written Email text)
Subject: PhD Defense Invitation
Dear {recipient name},
We are pleased to invite you to attend {researcher’s name} PhD defense on {date}. The defense will start at 8:00 AM and it will be held at the University of {university name}. There will be a reception for the speaker and audience following the event.
Sincerely, {event organizer}
Email Template 2 (Pre-Written Email text)
We would like to cordially invite you to the PhD defense of {name} on {date}. The presentation will take place at the Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon.
The abstract of the PhD dissertation is available below. We hope you can join us and support our friend “{name}”.
Best regards,
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Subject: Your PhD Defense
Hi {recipient name},
I am writing on behalf of {university} to invite you to your PhD Defense. Please find attached the details of the defense, which will be held on {date}. We look forward to seeing you there.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Kind regards,
{sender name}
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Invitation for the PhD Thesis defense and public debate of Thomas Ladinig
Dear Students and Colleagues,
On behalf of SzEEDS M Program Management, it is with great pleasure to invite you for the PhD Thesis defense and public debate of Thomas Ladinig.
Date: 10:00 AM, September 8th (Tuesday) 2020
Venue: ÚT230, Széchenyi István University (1. Egyetem Square, Győr, 9026-Hungary)
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- Dr. Zoom: Newly Minted Ph.D.’s...
Dr. Zoom: Newly Minted Ph.D.’s Share the Dos and Don’ts of Remote Dissertation Defense
April 15, 2020

On April 10, 2020, the first cohort of Jackson School doctoral candidates to defend their dissertations remotely gave their presentations over Zoom. The students that made up the cohort were Allison Lawman, Chelsea Mackaman-Lofland , and Suyu Fu.
We spoke with the three candidates — each now fully-fledged doctors of philosophy—about best practices for conducting a successful virtual doctoral defense.
DO – Invite everyone.
For many people, a remote dissertation is easier to attend than an in-person one. Take advantage of that and share the invitation outside of your thesis committee. Invite friends, family, colleagues and even potential collaborators. Mackaman-Lofland invited people involved with postdoc positions that she applied for.
“It was really nice to be able to invite people that I would like to work with,” she said.
DO – Le t someone else manage the meeting.
You need to focus on your presentation and answering questions. Make a plan for other people to handle the logistics. Mackaman-Lofland had two meeting co-hosts, her advisor and her roommate (who could easily alert her to an y technical difficulties), which were responsible for managing attendees. At t he start of her defense, Lawman had her advisor give a brief outline of Zoom etiquette – from muting mics, to holding questions to the end – so that she could focus on the science.
DON’T – Let your first run be your only run.
Call a friend or mentor and practice your presentation. Make sure your equipment works and that you know ho w to access breakout rooms. Call each and every attendee to make sure they can access Zoom – and also see how they’re doing.
“ I scheduled independent Zoom meetings with my external committee members to make sure it let them into the meeting, and we coul d talk and hear each other,” Lawman said. “W e had that natural opportunity to catch-up and see each other.”
DO – Read thi s article.
Mackaman-Lofland said that a short article in Nature — aptly titled “How to Defend a PhD Remotely”— helped her prepare her slides and her space. You can read it here: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00971-z
DON’T – Use one Zoom meeting room for everything.
T ake advantage of Zoom breakout rooms. These virtual rooms allow some members to leave the larger group without having to start a new meeting. Use a breakout room to take questions from your committee , and to wait while they make their final decision. Fu said he left the Zoom meeting during deliberation because, at the time, he was unfamiliar with breakout rooms. He recommends that other students familiarize themselves with how they work to keep meetings more seamless.
DO – Take a screenshot of the Zoom meeting room .
It’s a memento from your big day and a reminder of everyone who attended.
“That meant a lot to me personally,” Mackaman-Lofland said. “ I’ll probably include that as a figure in my thesis acknowledgements.”
What other tips should we add to the list? Send an email to Monica Kortsha, [email protected] .
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Take advantage of that and share the invitation outside of your thesis committee. Invite friends, family, colleagues and even potential