So You Want a PhD
Contents
Read first
The spine
Routing and self-assessment
Foundations
- What a PhD is for
- Scholarship as practice
- Rigor
- Across disciplines, and beyond them
- AI in scholarship
The work
The relationship
- Choosing a program and an advisor
- Posture and partnership
- Sustainability and wellbeing
- Trouble — recognising and responding
What goes wrong
Engagement
After the doctorate
Supporting someone through a PhD
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