How to Get Your PhD
CHAPTER: Saying Yes To Opportunity… and NO
I am a contributor within Professor Gavin Brown’s guide How to Get a PhD: A Handbook for the Journey, published 2021 by Oxford University Press.
PhDs are abound with opportunities to develop both professionally and personally — but with only limited time and headspace, a student must learn how to carefully select which are the ones to pursue.
To do this, they must learn to say no to opportunity, as well as yes.
“A unique take on how to survive and thrive in the process your PhD, this is a book that stands out from the crowd of traditional PhD guides. Compiled by a leading UK researcher, and written in a highly personal one-to-one manner, How to Get Your PhD showcases the thoughts of diverse and distinguished minds hailing from the UK, EU, and beyond, spanning both academia and industry.”