When Your Thesis Advisor Asks You to Quit
I was two months into the third year of my PhD when it happened. In retrospect, I should have seen it coming. My research wasn’t going great, but I was feeling reasonably confident…
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How a Mentor Can Be the Wizard to a Researcher’s Success
Have you ever had a mentor? Alternatively, have you ever been a mentor to others? Perhaps you are hoping to find a mentor? Whatever your chosen path, a mentor could help you to…
Are Peer Reviews Reports Being Written By Early Career Researchers?
Peer review seeks to ensure scientific integrity. All good journals use peer review to decide whether or not an article is suitable for publication. Peer reviewers should be…
Tips on Developing an Effective Undergraduate Research Program
Undergraduates can partake in research and they do so regularly. These opportunities are good for students who wish to get a taste for research. Undergraduate research projects…
4 Crucial Tips on How to Effectively Mentor Graduate Students
What is the Role of a Mentor?
In graduate schools, students often find themselves in need of guidance. This is where mentors play an important role. For example, research mentors…
The PhD Journey – How to Identify a Fantastic Supervisor
Entering graduate school to complete a doctorate degree is one of the most important decisions in an academic’s research career. This decision requires a logical evaluation of…
How to Manage Working Relationship with Your Advisor
The relationship with your advisor is one of the most crucial aspects of the doctoral training. The typical graduate student spends a lot of time worrying about what their advisor…
Dealing with Bad Student–Advisor Relationship
The advisor–graduate student relationship can a tricky one. When it is good, it’s really good. But when it’s bad, it can negatively impact the grad student’s career, and in some…
What Makes a Good Research Supervisor?
Understanding Expectations
For research supervisors, the role is assigned as part of a broader and more complex faculty role that may include teaching responsibilities,…
Switching Mentors: Does It Help a Researcher?
At some point in their career, many researchers feel that communication with their mentor is ineffective, but other researchers say that good relations with mentors are possible…
Ways to Mentor the Next Generation of Scientific Researchers
The world is changing fast and we communicate even faster. The new generation of students are used to a system in which information circulates constantly through new media that…
Where Else Can Researchers Find Support If the Advisor Is Not Helping Enough?
Isolation, anxiousness, search for perfection, researching failures, and stress—these are only some of the many problems PhD students usually cope with at some point in their…