From PhD to Life
dissertation).
What was your first post-PhD job?
I was still in my relationship with academia, but I took on some tutoring, part-time, at a private psychology clinic in Toronto. There was a phone call during which I had to convince my future boss that I was very interested in ...
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From PhD to Life
dissertation; it is currently with the publisher. At present I am preparing two presentations for conferences in July. I am delighted to be a presenter at the UK Social Policy Association conference in Belfast, and the Irish Social Policy Association conference in Dublin.
I also write book review...
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Careers Café
dissertation proposal portions of your program still required it. In fact, it might have felt like it was still a useful skill when writing your dissertation and thinking about the defense.
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Knowing when a skill is no longer useful
Applying for jobs. Applying for grants. Submitting article...
Careers Café
The secret CV doesn’t contain things you want to hide, but rather things that you’re proud of, and haven’t yet found a way to articulate.
dissertation in one bullet point can be painful. Leaving it off altogether can be more so.
None of your experiences are lost in actuality, for the very same reason that makes them painful to leave off your resumé: they are part of you. They will continue to inform your perspective, your abilitie...
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Features
Comparative literature is a small field that’s often misunderstood, even by neighbouring disciplines in the faculty of arts. That’s partly why it’s in crisis
dissertation connected works by authors from Brazil, Colombia, Martinique, the U.S. and Canada to the Book of Genesis.
Despite the name, Comp Lit has less to do with comparing than it does with the idea that all literature, besides reflecting national influences and languages, is a universal huma...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/academes-stepchild/
Features
The experience of poets slash philosophers in academe reveals the growing pains that can accompany shifting disciplinary borders.
dissertation in aesthetics on the beauty of nature. The peonies blooming endlessly in her poem transform Schiller’s argument – that nature, in its “endless generation and regeneration,” is a prelude to the infinite – into metaphor: a tangible, vivid, sensory attempt to test out his theory....
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/academic-papers-get-poetic/
Features
La procrastination chronique est à la hausse, disent les experts, et elle semble répandue parmi les universitaires. Tôt ou tard, il faudra agir.
dissertation est difficile et rien ne garantit que ce dur travail sera récompensé par le professeur. » M. Steel pense aussi que la structure des cours universitaires, qui accorde de longs délais pour terminer les travaux favorise la procrastination. Les nombreuses sources de distraction qui ento...
https://www.affairesuniversitaires.ca/articles-de-fond/article/lattraction-de-la-procrastination/
Features
As academics experiment with the graphic novel form, their research is reaching – and influencing – new audiences.
dissertation as a monograph.
She had a different idea. A voracious comic book reader, she envisioned her research – on how trauma-healing programs for Indigenous offenders build resilience in families and communities – taking the form of a graphic novel.
“I wanted to talk to everyday Can...
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News
dissertation, cutting PhD programs down to a five-year maximum, and recruiting well-rounded candidates who may have stated ambitions outside higher education. (The U.S.-based Modern Language Association publis...
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News
In this program, Indigenous PhD students receive a stipend, teaching experience, faculty mentor and time to complete their dissertation.
dissertation defense.
Keri Cheechoo, a Cree Iskwew (woman) from Long Lake #58 First Nation, was also one of the inaugural fellows in 2018. She successfully defended her dissertation at the University of Ottawa this past December and was recently hired as an assistant professor with U of Ottawa’...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/queens-pre-doctoral-fellowship-program-supports-indigenous-scholars/
News
A recently published study of doctoral students finds women and men had vastly different relationships to their work during the first wave of the pandemic, and recommends a more tailored approach to support.
dissertation on the lives and work of Filipino Canadian settlement and social service workers in Ontario, Manitoba and Yukon. Those visits were not able to proceed, so she left Montreal to go home to Toronto to help her family, many of whom were frontline workers in hospitals, long-term care and man...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/women-in-phd-programs-reported-more-distress-and-disruptions-than-male-counterparts-early-in-the-pandemic/
In my opinion
dissertation committee many years ago. I knew I was in trouble when his preliminary report began, “I fear this is a dissertation without a thesis”! The verbal affectation came a bit later when he complained about how the argument moves “from the suppositious to the supposititious.” My first ...
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In my opinion
We need to use research to identify and implement the most effective ways to support student writing development.
dissertation bootcamps,” and faculty “publish or perish” and may enroll in “writing retreats.” Such language is ubiquitous and insidious and so all the more destructive because it constrains and distorts how writing is understood in the academy. Instead, we need language that reflects curr...
https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/in-my-opinion/from-combat-to-conversation-and-community-reimagining-university-writing/
Career Advice
Academic networking for the neophyte
dissertation. The article seemed to miss a couple of important points that he had argued during his defence. For the first time in months, Greg felt connected and relevant to the discipline.
Before he realized what he was doing, Greg was composing an email to the author to say he had enjoyed read...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/career-advice-article/even-phds-do-it/
Career Advice
An explanation of whether this is the right fit for you.
dissertation and begin to establish an academic identity separate from your doctoral supervisor – a crucial career step.
In framing a suitable postdoctoral project, consider the following:
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- What are the big questions that interest you?
- What specific questions are arisi...
From PhD to Life
dissertation compares Queen Henrietta Maria during the English Civil Wars to Queen Marie Antoinette during the French Revolution so I had done a lot of research concerning 17th and 18th century court culture. I also had a strong interest in the monarchy and royal history more generally and read a lo...
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From PhD to Life
dissertation coming?,” “What’s your next research project?,” and “So, you got a job yet?” all the many necessary steps along the way are obscured. But those are the steps that get us where we’re going. Those are the steps we need to acknowledge, celebrate, and feel motivated by in orde...
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From PhD to Life
dissertation topic, a great community to research, and continues to have a positive impact for it’s community members. Unfortunately, my funding was cut after my second year and there wasn’t another place for me to be employed within that community.
After my data collection, I moved on to a s...
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From PhD to Life
dissertation chapters, article drafts, or other writing in progress and then met in person a week or two later to discuss how the work could be stronger. The theme of our scholarship was one that I didn’t otherwise encounter in my own program, and I appreciated having this intellectual community. ...
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Careers Café
dissertation topic in one of the broader fields of a discipline.
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