10 slides for How to survive your PhD

1. How to survive your PhD

2. One
Two
Three
Before your PhD
Research Habits
Your Thesis & Viva

3. What is a PhD?
Mastery of your subject
Capacity for independent research
Communicate results to audience
Through the process towards dissertation

4. How to find right institution/advisor?
Before your phd

5. Do we have Same research interests?
Do we have Same working styles?
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I like working with deadlines
I’m a doer
I like working with freedoms
I’m a thinker
Check with current students
of the supervisor

6. Research Habits: Writing
Writing everyday
at the same time
at the same place

7. Research Habits: priority
Prioritize for the week with
10 goals & 10 actions for them

8. Publish as much as you can
It’s never to early to submit a paper

9. The best thesis is the signed one

10. Some useful PhD tips
– Open University
References