Alex Fitzpatrick (www.twitter.com/archaeologyfitz) is an almost-finished-PhD candidate and zooarchaeologist. When she’s not complaining online, she is the host of the ArchaeoAnimals Podcast on the Archaeology
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Category: postgrad
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When to give up
This is an anonymous article from a PhD student at a UK University. Doing a PhD is rarely a linear process. The people who finish
Science, surnames and marriage
I got married during my PhD, after I had published my first paper and presented at conferences. I deliberated for years about what to do
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Two Faces of the Same Coin – How We Combated Burn-Out
About the authors Cristina Balaban (Twitter: @cristina_blbn) is an MSci Geography graduate at Durham University. Born and raised in the mountain foothills of Romania, she
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How to be a PhD student
This is a guest post by Michael Asghar, a post-doc at the University of Nottingham who is currently using high-field fMRI to study changes in
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A life outside science
This is a guest post from Nathan O’Brien who works at Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia. “Are you up to much over the weekend?” I (perhaps naïvely)