Outrider 45 How to prepare for a PhD programme

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Summary

TLDRO vídeo "How to Prepare for a PhD Program" é unha guía para futuras e actuais estudantes de doutoramento na Universidade Charles Darwin, presentado por Tara Rison, decana de estudos de posgrao. Esta suxestión parte de Akbar, un colega que busca ser proactivo antes de comezar un doutoramento. Rison destaca que o éxito nun doutoramento adóitase determinar nos tres meses previos á matrícula. Ofrece dez consellos clave: establecer relacións sólidas cos supervisores e colegas, pensar sobre o entorno de traballo, ler constantemente, escribir regularmente, mellorar a alfabetización en información, entender os exames de doutoramento, adquirir habilidades de ensino, cultivar a motivación persoal, construír un CV académico e realizar unha autorreflexión sincera sobre as propias fortalezas e debilidades. Finalmente, anima a recoñecer que o doutoramento é unha experiencia única e moi diferente doutras titulacións.

Takeaways

  • 🧑‍🎓 A importancia de prepararse proactivamente antes de comezar un doutoramento.
  • 📚 Ler de forma constante é crucial para o éxito académico.
  • 📝 Escribir regularmente axuda a refinar as habilidades de investigación.
  • 👥 Construír relacións sólidas con supervisores e colegas é esencial.
  • 🌐 Mellorar as habilidades en alfabetización informativa pode aforrar tempo valioso.
  • 👨‍🏫 Adquirir habilidades de ensino é útil e pode ofrecer oportunidades valiosas.
  • 💪 A motivación é o motor esencial para completar o doutoramento.
  • 🗂 Manter un CV académico actualizado reflexiona o progreso.
  • 🔍 Realizar autorreflexión para entender medos e fortalezas.
  • 🏆 Un doutoramento é diferente e único; prepárate para os seus desafíos.

Timeline

  • 00:00:00 - 00:05:00

    Tara Rison, Decana de Estudos, Charles Darwin University, comeza discutindo a importancia de prepararse proactivamente para un programa de doutoramento, destacando que o éxito dun doutoramento frecuentemente se determina nos tres meses anteriores á inscrición. O enfoque inicial está na preparación emocional e profesional para estudantes que comezan ou regresan a un doutoramento.

  • 00:05:00 - 00:10:00

    Enfócase en construír relacións importantes antes de iniciar un doutoramento, incluíndo establecer unha clara comunicación e expectativas cos supervisores e colegas. Recomenda participar en actividades como horas de oficina dixitais e seminarios de investigación que facilitan a adaptación ao entorno académico e fomentar redes persoais sólidas.

  • 00:10:00 - 00:15:00

    Destaca a importancia da preparación e organización persoal para o doutoramento, incluíndo establecer un ambiente de traballo adecuado e apoiar de xeito sólido as relacións persoais. Subliña a lectura e escritura frecuentes como claves para o éxito e suxire ferramentas e prácticas que axudan a integrar estas actividades na vida diaria do estudante.

  • 00:15:00 - 00:20:00

    Fai énfase na alfabetización informativa e a comprensión dos procesos de investigación como habilidades esenciais. Recomenda cursar formación en alfabetización informativa antes de iniciar o doutoramento e enfócase en ferramentas como Google Scholar e a colaboración con bibliotecarios para unha busca eficaz de literatura académica.

  • 00:20:00 - 00:27:37

    A importancia de comprender o proceso de avaliación do doutorado, lendo e comprendendo teses completadas. Ademais, subliña a preparación para oportunidades de ensino e a crítica importancia da motivación para o éxito nun doutoramento. Pecha con consellos sobre a creación dun CV académico e a reflexión persoal para o crecemento persoal e profesional.

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Video Q&A

  • ¿Cuál es el enfoque principal del vídeo?

    El enfoque principal del vídeo es sobre cómo prepararse proactivamente para un programa de doctorado.

  • ¿Quién es el presentador del vídeo?

    El vídeo está presentado por Tara Rison, decana de Estudios de Posgrado en la Universidad Charles Darwin.

  • ¿Qué importancia tiene la relación con los supervisores según el vídeo?

    Tener una buena relación con los supervisores es clave, ya que se debe establecer una comunicación efectiva y definir los límites y expectativas desde el principio.

  • ¿Por qué es importante organizar las relaciones personales antes de comenzar un doctorado?

    Es importante para asegurar que el entorno personal esté preparado para apoyar el proceso y evitar conflictos que puedan interferir con los estudios.

  • ¿Qué papel juega la lectura en el éxito de un doctorado?

    La lectura regular y constante es crucial para entender el campo de estudio y desarrollar vocabulario y argumentos para el doctorado.

  • ¿Por qué es relevante la escritura temprana y constante durante un doctorado?

    Escribir regularmente ayuda a desarrollar habilidades de comunicación y reflexión necesarias para alcanzar el éxito en el doctorado.

  • ¿Qué se recomienda respecto a la alfabetización informacional?

    Se recomienda inscribirse en cursos de alfabetización informacional para aprender a utilizar bases de datos y herramientas como Google Scholar.

  • ¿Por qué es importante desarrollar habilidades en enseñanza?

    Durante el doctorado pueden surgir oportunidades para enseñar, y estar preparado para ello es valioso para el desarrollo profesional.

  • ¿Cómo puede ayudar un CV académico durante el doctorado?

    Un CV académico ayuda a documentar el progreso y los logros académicos, siendo una herramienta para la reflexión personal y profesional.

  • ¿Cuál es una última recomendación importante del vídeo?

    Reconocer que un doctorado es muy diferente de otros grados y estar preparado para afrontar sus desafíos únicos.

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  • 00:00:10
    hello I'm Tara Rison and I'm the dean of
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    Graduate Studies at Charles Darwin
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    University Welcome to outrider 45 how to
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    prepare for a PhD program what a
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    brilliant suggestion and this suggestion
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    comes from the legendary
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    abar akar's been a great new colleague
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    that I've met in the last year or so and
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    abbar gave me this request and I'll read
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    it to you it's a great one quote to be
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    proactive what can I do effectively
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    before coming into a PhD program I kind
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    of want to save my future I end of quote
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    brilliant now what a great request
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    because this is a proactive rather than
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    reactive request so let's save the
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    future with akar which sort of sounds
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    like this great superhero film so I'm
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    thrilled to be a part of this so let's
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    save the future and we're doing that by
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    getting you prepared for a PhD program
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    and you've often heard me say that I can
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    tell if a student is going to complete a
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    PhD successfully in three years if they
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    work hard in the first year if their
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    first year is successful they're going
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    to get home but I'm actually going to
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    enlarge on my argument there actually
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    the quick and successful PhD is often
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    determined in the three months before a
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    student enrolls so we're going to talk a
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    little bit about this period before
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    enrollment so the audience for today's
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    outrider is obviously our wonderful
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    students about to start we are thrilled
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    welcome to your journey I hope it's a
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    fantastic one so we're getting you sort
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    of organized to set you up for Success
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    terrific but there's also a second group
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    that is a very large group and important
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    group this is a group where Something's
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    Happened they've gone on a leave of
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    absence they've suspended from from
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    their studies they've gone part-time
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    fulltime fulltime part-time or indeed
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    they I won't use the word fail but they
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    left a PhD program they are Tred from a
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    PhD program and they've decided to go
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    again and they want to understand what
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    went wrong and what they can do to make
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    it right that's an important group and I
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    see you and I hear you it's a very large
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    group let's do this for you so what I'm
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    trying to do today is configure a moment
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    where we can regroup we can be honest
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    and we can construct a framework of
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    success that's what I want for you so
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    today has a diagnostic purpose we're
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    back to tus 10 tips to get you organized
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    for success in a PhD program now the
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    reading this week there some yeah so
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    many there's like thousands thousands of
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    blogs and sort of journalistic articles
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    about why I was successful so once more
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    data point of one we love our data
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    points of one not but I've looked very
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    strongly also at the referee literature
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    also University websites what they
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    recommend to their students to be
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    successful but I have focused on the
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    refereed literature particularly after
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    covid because our universities are
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    different now and to be frank with you
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    as someone who's been a Dean through
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    much of this period uh our PHD programs
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    are very different now and that's not
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    always a good thing can I say we may do
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    a later outrider on that so let's get to
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    Tara 10 tip tip number
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    one let's build relation relationships
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    preparing for a PhD first requires that
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    you organize your relationships now the
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    first and most important relationship is
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    with your supervisor now at CDU we have
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    a supervisory Charter I'll provide a
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    link to a document for you so you can
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    use it at your leisure now what the
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    charter does is it provides a framework
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    for what would be quite uncomfortable
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    conversations about relationships and
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    bridges and boundaries and how this
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    relation relationship is going to occur
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    through the supervision okay so it
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    provides a scaffold for a a difficult
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    conversation so you need to ask your
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    supervisor how they configure success
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    how they think about feedback and most
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    importantly right at the start what is
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    effective communication for you both
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    because if your supervisor has this
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    notion that they're able to phone you at
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    any point or text you at any point like
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    you are a drug dealer and that's not
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    exactly how you want to communicate you
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    need to speak those words so we need to
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    be very clear now between a student and
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    a supervisor and we have to agree on the
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    platforms for communication and you also
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    need to start building your
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    relationships with your future
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    colleagues that might be the crew in the
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    lab the crew you're going to go on field
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    work with but if you're an individual
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    researcher like a lot of our disciplines
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    then don't fret about that most
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    universities have a series of social
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    more formal groups that exist alongside
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    your candidature so for example at CDU
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    we have digital office hours and right
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    club we open them up for the world so
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    wherever you are if you're thinking of
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    getting into a PhD program you can just
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    sort of sit in that space you can
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    communicate you can ask questions you
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    can answer but it's a way to socialize
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    you into a doctoral space and most
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    universities these days have and I'll
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    use the cliche but it is important safe
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    spaces for students to ask questions to
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    provide answers and get yourself
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    comfortable with the informal learning
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    The Meta learning that is part of doing
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    research look up also this is crucial
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    research seminars that your University
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    or other universities are running this
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    is the gift in many ways of Co because
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    whenever we run a seminar these days we
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    also happen to record it and we often
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    load it up into what is the University's
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    YouTube channel we do that at CDU we do
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    that for our current students who maybe
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    have caring responsibilities or in
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    full-time work and they can look at that
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    seminar at their Leisure the gift for
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    you as a prospective student is all this
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    incredible material exists for listen
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    for you to listen to and watch at your
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    leisure so again to just Orient yourself
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    into the languages the ontologies of
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    doctoral education but then of course
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    there are also your personal
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    relationships you've got to get
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    organized your relationship with your
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    partner with your parents with your kids
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    with your friends these have to be
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    organized as early as possible you've
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    heard me say so often it takes a village
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    to graduate a PhD student I still agree
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    with myself but can I say it also takes
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    some very robust conversations at the
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    start to ensure that you begin with the
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    end in mind you begin with success if
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    your partner
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    if your partner doesn't like the idea of
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    you doing a
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    PhD you are not going to do a PhD so
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    have these robust conversations at the
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    start two yeah think about your working
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    environment your University May allocate
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    you a working environment so a shared
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    office for example and you need to think
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    about how am I going to set up this
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    space but also if it is a shared office
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    again you've got to have these very
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    honest conversations with the people
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    that you're sharing your office with
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    right we all know what happens often if
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    someone likes really quiet working time
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    the way Synergy works is they're paired
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    with someone who loves to talk bringing
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    people into the office talking coffee
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    Etc so there's got to be an agreement
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    between all members of the office about
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    how the work will be conducted remember
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    if you're in a work environment you're
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    in a group environment you've got to
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    express you've got to communicate at
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    your needs rather than just sort of seee
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    with anger at the start say right how
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    are we going to organize this space how
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    are we going to respect each other's way
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    of doing research say the questions that
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    overtly now it's great if you have the
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    opportunity for a home office even if it
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    is simply your kitchen table now as you
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    might see my work office at CDU is very
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    much a Consulting office I don't do any
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    research there I don't write reports
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    there it's not a writing or a a research
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    office really I just see people in that
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    office and sadly I can't video stuff
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    there you very really see me videoing
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    the office because it's on a corridor
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    and it's quite loud so it just means
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    that office has particular functions and
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    I need another space to do like the
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    actual work and so you know as most of
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    you know I've been living in temporary
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    accommodation for 2 and a half years now
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    all my staff is in storage I'm living
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    out of two suitcases so what I would say
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    to you as an old person who's been doing
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    research being an academic for 30 years
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    if I'd waited for the perfect research
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    space in those 30 years I would never
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    have produced a book or an article I
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    have managed and I'm proud of myself for
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    doing this I have managed to create
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    research develop research in Dreadful
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    unstable difficult environments so what
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    I'd say to you is do feel confident in
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    okay so you're in temporary
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    accommodation you're setting your
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    computer computer up on a dining room
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    table do that that's how I've done the
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    bulk of my research just get organized
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    and look right at the moment as you can
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    see I got a desk I got a chair I've got
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    a computer and that's it and that's my
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    research life and career so try and
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    think about your best working
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    environment or indeed how you can make
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    the best of the situation that you're in
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    you must organize your life to write you
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    must organize your life to create
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    research and this is where you do this
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    reflexive work before you have enrolled
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    you get yourself organized now
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    three read early read often
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    read I judge
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    students hell I judge
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    people uh by their reading
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    behaviors I do I'm sorry but wow I do I
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    do you need to have a really good sense
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    of the research in your area how are you
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    going to determine the research Gap how
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    are you going to determine your sock
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    your significant original contribution
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    to knowledge if you haven't actually
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    read the field so get books get articles
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    on methodology get really really recent
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    stuff that's incredibly important get
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    those Google Scholar alerts working for
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    you work out your 10 most important
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    Scholars get Google alerts on them work
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    out your 10 most important Concepts or
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    tropes hello get Google Scholar alerts
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    on them you see we learn to read by
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    reading we gain a vocabulary and most
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    importantly we learn the shape of
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    debates we can start to learn to follow
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    an argument and then of course we can
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    develop our own so get in the habit of
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    reading every day please read every day
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    it's such a blessing it's such a
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    privilege to read the words of other
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    people because what reading does is it
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    challenges our
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    ideas it challenges our ideas in the
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    culture it's evidence so if we got
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    opinion or Vibe let me tell you what I'm
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    feeling not too bothered what you're
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    feeling evidence this is research
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    reading is a gift that we give ourselves
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    every single day the difference between
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    the students who succeed and the
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    students who fail is the caliber the
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    scope and scale of the reading full stop
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    four right early right often
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    right very few things frighten me more
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    in a doctoral program than when a
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    student says all I've got to do is write
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    up this is the equivalent of saying you
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    know what tomorrow morning I'm going to
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    get up
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    and I'm going to walk to the
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    Moon ah
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    great that's not how you do it WR early
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    right often right constantly right right
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    right before you get started get in the
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    habit of writing every single day you
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    may start with you know writing your
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    motivations what Drew you to a PhD
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    program that's fine just getting into
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    the vibe of writing but you need to
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    quite quickly start moving to writing
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    about the
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    interpretations of the research that you
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    are enacting now you may decide to write
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    a blog through a PhD millions of
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    students around the world have and the
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    research does show colleagues to be
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    frank the students who have a journal or
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    a Blog through the PHD have a greater
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    chance of being successful and that's
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    been studied particularly in the
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    Scandinavian countries the reason those
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    students tend to be successful
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    is they're reflecting on the PHD while
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    they're doing it now I'm not a great
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    Journal writer to be honest with you but
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    there's no doubt that writing about your
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    reading is incredibly productive so what
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    I do for example is I take very very
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    good notes from what I read every day
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    but then when I finish a book in
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    particular I go to Goodreads Goodreads
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    which is a great little site and I write
  • 00:13:53
    a sort of summary and View and Vibe on
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    what I've just read so I've done a meta
  • 00:13:58
    interpret ation of the note taking and
  • 00:14:00
    the research that I've read holds me
  • 00:14:02
    accountable gives it a short review lets
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    me go a bit matter it also keeps you
  • 00:14:08
    honest too so the great thing about
  • 00:14:10
    blogs and journaling and even good reads
  • 00:14:12
    is you've got accountability to the
  • 00:14:14
    reading that you've enacted five
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    information literacy and academic
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    literacy are the foundations of a
  • 00:14:23
    successful PhD program reading and
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    writing skills are crucial
  • 00:14:29
    and we have to learn them we are not
  • 00:14:31
    born we don't come out of the
  • 00:14:33
    vagina reading and writing I wish we did
  • 00:14:37
    but we have to learn how to do it but
  • 00:14:40
    academic literacy information literacy
  • 00:14:43
    can save us so much time and yet we talk
  • 00:14:49
    about it so rarely I think it was
  • 00:14:50
    linhard who described information
  • 00:14:52
    literacy as the quote neglected
  • 00:14:55
    essential skill end of quote brilliant
  • 00:14:59
    now I recommend that every single
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    student about to go into a PhD program
  • 00:15:03
    enroll in an information literacy course
  • 00:15:06
    seriously enroll in an information
  • 00:15:08
    literacy course there are some great
  • 00:15:10
    mukes on information literacy and I
  • 00:15:12
    checked last week Ed X is currently
  • 00:15:15
    listing 45 courses on information
  • 00:15:19
    literacy from amazing universities all
  • 00:15:22
    around the world do one of them but also
  • 00:15:25
    visit your institutional library page
  • 00:15:28
    often they have a YouTube site as well
  • 00:15:30
    these days and see the information
  • 00:15:32
    literacy programs that are available
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    from your Librarians Librarians can save
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    you months hell years in your PhD learn
  • 00:15:43
    about databases learn about software
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    learn about interfaces and most
  • 00:15:48
    importantly spend quality time in Google
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    Scholar Google
  • 00:15:54
    scholar in my life has saved me tens of
  • 00:16:00
    thousands of hours it allows me with
  • 00:16:03
    precision and with speed to locate
  • 00:16:06
    outstanding research from around the
  • 00:16:07
    world not located in Europe and North
  • 00:16:11
    America although respect my colleagues
  • 00:16:12
    in Europe and North America but Google
  • 00:16:14
    Scholar allows me to enact properly
  • 00:16:17
    International research from some of the
  • 00:16:19
    greatest Scholars around the world who
  • 00:16:22
    don't happen to live in North America or
  • 00:16:25
    in Europe it is remarkable to me that we
  • 00:16:28
    still have students that don't know how
  • 00:16:30
    to use Google Scholar so about once
  • 00:16:33
    every two days I have a student come
  • 00:16:35
    into my office and say oh tar there's no
  • 00:16:37
    literature on my field I sit them down
  • 00:16:40
    we go to my computer we go to Google
  • 00:16:41
    Scholar I say right and of course I've
  • 00:16:43
    just met them right so I don't know
  • 00:16:44
    their research field I said right give
  • 00:16:46
    me three key scholars in your field and
  • 00:16:49
    five terms five Concepts click click
  • 00:16:51
    click click click click the research
  • 00:16:54
    published since
  • 00:16:56
    2020 and there's 45 th000 refereed
  • 00:17:00
    articles so supposed from a field where
  • 00:17:02
    there's
  • 00:17:03
    nothing there it is okay what happens
  • 00:17:06
    what I think is holding students back
  • 00:17:07
    from using Google Scholar well is a
  • 00:17:10
    strong vocabulary and knowing the key
  • 00:17:13
    scholars in the field and if you can
  • 00:17:16
    just enhance your vocabulary your tropes
  • 00:17:18
    a bit more and get the get the big names
  • 00:17:21
    get the names names names that will help
  • 00:17:23
    you enormously in Google Scholar
  • 00:17:26
    therefore enact the profound expertise
  • 00:17:29
    from your Librarians learn about
  • 00:17:31
    databases learn about Google Scholar six
  • 00:17:35
    start with the end in mind read
  • 00:17:38
    completed phds now the PHD is a very
  • 00:17:42
    unusual form of assessment
  • 00:17:45
    okay it's probably one of the only times
  • 00:17:48
    in your life and I've been trying to
  • 00:17:49
    think of others but it's probably one of
  • 00:17:50
    the only except the Olympics the only
  • 00:17:52
    time in your life where one object is
  • 00:17:56
    being
  • 00:17:57
    assessed and that that object is
  • 00:17:59
    examined by people that you don't know
  • 00:18:02
    that are not too bothered about what
  • 00:18:05
    happens here they're interested in the
  • 00:18:07
    caliber of your research so what I would
  • 00:18:10
    advise and it will change your life is
  • 00:18:12
    please before you start a PhD read a
  • 00:18:17
    completed PhD seriously read lots of
  • 00:18:21
    them find your discipline go to Google
  • 00:18:24
    Scholar and read completed phds sit down
  • 00:18:28
    read it and that's how you learn how a
  • 00:18:31
    PhD is structured and the diversity of
  • 00:18:33
    ways in which a PhD is structured but
  • 00:18:36
    also go to your University in our case
  • 00:18:39
    CDU go to our University and look at the
  • 00:18:42
    policies and procedures for higher
  • 00:18:45
    degree examination they are sitting
  • 00:18:47
    there for you to read that is what is
  • 00:18:49
    going to be sent to your examiners so
  • 00:18:51
    why wouldn't you at the start of your
  • 00:18:53
    doctorate have a look at the policies
  • 00:18:56
    and procedures that are going to conf
  • 00:18:58
    figure the examination of it it's there
  • 00:19:00
    it's public read it look at how a PhD is
  • 00:19:04
    examined and what that does is that
  • 00:19:06
    brings so much more information back to
  • 00:19:10
    your control make sure you understand
  • 00:19:13
    what is examined what is this
  • 00:19:17
    object what does the thesis look like
  • 00:19:20
    what does the examiner read and then
  • 00:19:24
    please talk about examination with
  • 00:19:26
    people like me Deans our research
  • 00:19:28
    examination officers we love we love
  • 00:19:32
    talking about examination it's my
  • 00:19:34
    favorite Topic in the universe so ask us
  • 00:19:37
    and we will love to talk about that with
  • 00:19:40
    you so don't sit and wonder oh I wonder
  • 00:19:41
    what's happening ask us we're excited
  • 00:19:44
    about
  • 00:19:45
    examination okay seven develop your
  • 00:19:48
    expertise in teaching and learning I
  • 00:19:50
    know this seems a weird one let me tell
  • 00:19:52
    you while we're here there's no doubt
  • 00:19:55
    that casual teaching budgets in our
  • 00:19:57
    universities are declining in fact our
  • 00:19:59
    budgets in universities are declining
  • 00:20:02
    but it is important to learn how to
  • 00:20:04
    teach and learn how you learn and learn
  • 00:20:07
    how others learn because all of a sudden
  • 00:20:09
    an opportunity will come up during the
  • 00:20:11
    PHD where you'll have a chance to teach
  • 00:20:14
    and you need to say yes to that
  • 00:20:15
    opportunity so you need to prepare
  • 00:20:17
    yourself and part of the preparation
  • 00:20:19
    into a doctoral program is looking into
  • 00:20:23
    some professional development in
  • 00:20:25
    teaching so you at its most basic how to
  • 00:20:27
    lecture how to run a tutorial how to run
  • 00:20:30
    a seminar how to do online learning
  • 00:20:32
    management systems okay all of that is
  • 00:20:34
    important and there are plenty of short
  • 00:20:36
    courses on LinkedIn there's some courses
  • 00:20:38
    on academia.edu tons of mukes so come in
  • 00:20:43
    to your doctoral program having just a
  • 00:20:46
    little bit of teaching and learning
  • 00:20:48
    expertise in your back pocket because
  • 00:20:51
    you will use it
  • 00:20:53
    eight motivation
  • 00:20:56
    matters m motivation is the fuel of a
  • 00:21:01
    successful
  • 00:21:03
    PhD without motivation you will not
  • 00:21:06
    finish this degree full stop so write
  • 00:21:09
    answers to the question why am I doing
  • 00:21:13
    this why am I doing a PhD get really
  • 00:21:16
    good answers to that answering this
  • 00:21:18
    question will allow you also to see the
  • 00:21:21
    challenges that you may confront the
  • 00:21:24
    gaps in your understanding your fears
  • 00:21:26
    your vulnerabilities your worries it'll
  • 00:21:29
    also allow you to do a bit of a skills
  • 00:21:31
    needs analysis so this is what I'd like
  • 00:21:33
    to do but I can't do that yet that
  • 00:21:36
    knowledge is crucial I get my students
  • 00:21:39
    to fill in as you know their PHD setup
  • 00:21:41
    document I've got a wonderful student
  • 00:21:42
    starting next week and she's doing that
  • 00:21:44
    work right now for our first meeting on
  • 00:21:46
    Tuesday so it's exciting so she's taking
  • 00:21:49
    a whole week filling in that PhD setup
  • 00:21:51
    document and we will talk about it in
  • 00:21:53
    full in our first meeting because what
  • 00:21:57
    that document does does is it moves you
  • 00:21:59
    forward from wanting to do a PhD to
  • 00:22:03
    having the skills and abilities to
  • 00:22:06
    actually enroll and succeed at it
  • 00:22:10
    nine time to open up an academic
  • 00:22:14
    CV Now open up an academic CV you may
  • 00:22:17
    have a CV you may have one of those
  • 00:22:18
    Dreadful resumés that people are doing
  • 00:22:20
    at the moment you know like a picture of
  • 00:22:21
    you in the corner and you know your
  • 00:22:24
    interests you know I like hockey and
  • 00:22:26
    walking along the beach on some Sunday
  • 00:22:28
    mornings you know those sort of rumes
  • 00:22:29
    well that's over girlfriend this what is
  • 00:22:32
    that about what we're doing now is an
  • 00:22:34
    academic CV so this is the moment where
  • 00:22:37
    you construct it and this is a living
  • 00:22:40
    breathing document that you are going to
  • 00:22:42
    touch and open and enhance every single
  • 00:22:46
    week now I still at my age work on my CV
  • 00:22:51
    every single Sunday morning and that
  • 00:22:53
    allows me to reflect okay what have I
  • 00:22:55
    done this week what have I not done this
  • 00:22:57
    week what skills would I like to develop
  • 00:23:00
    the CV is a an accountability measure
  • 00:23:04
    for my growth as a human and a scholar
  • 00:23:07
    so create new headings in your CV and
  • 00:23:11
    work to flesh out those headings and
  • 00:23:14
    just to get you started you might want
  • 00:23:16
    headings like for example your
  • 00:23:18
    qualifications articles book chapters
  • 00:23:21
    conferences poster presentations
  • 00:23:23
    consultancy professional development
  • 00:23:26
    Community engagement there's just a few
  • 00:23:28
    headings there's there's hundreds of
  • 00:23:30
    them you could choose but just start and
  • 00:23:33
    treat them as an aspirational heading
  • 00:23:36
    and start to achieve things and get that
  • 00:23:38
    sense of achievement that every Sunday
  • 00:23:40
    morning you can add something to your
  • 00:23:43
    CV 10 do the reflection
  • 00:23:47
    work I want you to write down four
  • 00:23:51
    headings on a piece of paper for me so I
  • 00:23:54
    want a heading and then a Gap a heading
  • 00:23:56
    and a gap four times
  • 00:23:58
    here are the four headings for you how
  • 00:24:02
    do I like to give and receive
  • 00:24:06
    feedback what frightens
  • 00:24:10
    me what gives me
  • 00:24:13
    confidence and for what saps my
  • 00:24:18
    confidence now I want you to sit with a
  • 00:24:20
    cup of coffee with this bed or these
  • 00:24:22
    pieces of paper and fill out the answers
  • 00:24:26
    to those questions because what what
  • 00:24:27
    you're doing is you're enacting a really
  • 00:24:30
    deep diagnostic of your
  • 00:24:32
    life we must not be so
  • 00:24:37
    frightened that we can't understand our
  • 00:24:41
    fears we've got to feel the fear and do
  • 00:24:44
    it anyway move through the fear to
  • 00:24:48
    understand our
  • 00:24:49
    fears and if you don't do this work
  • 00:24:53
    you're unprepared for the PHD because
  • 00:24:55
    this is a frightening experience working
  • 00:24:57
    in international higher education at the
  • 00:24:58
    moment is a truly daily frightening
  • 00:25:03
    experience I need you strong I need you
  • 00:25:08
    focused I need you clear so get yourself
  • 00:25:12
    personally and professionally organized
  • 00:25:14
    and prepared for this PhD now after
  • 00:25:17
    you've answered those four questions
  • 00:25:19
    that is a great scaffold to your
  • 00:25:21
    selfawareness your
  • 00:25:24
    self-actualization and one other great
  • 00:25:26
    way to do this is read the experience of
  • 00:25:28
    other PhD students so put in PhD student
  • 00:25:32
    blogs into Google I did that last week
  • 00:25:35
    and there are 23 million returns so it's
  • 00:25:39
    plenty of material for you to read
  • 00:25:42
    immerse yourself into the experience of
  • 00:25:44
    others stop thinking about yourself as a
  • 00:25:46
    data set of one real problem in doctoral
  • 00:25:48
    Education team start to read the
  • 00:25:50
    experiences of others and learn from
  • 00:25:53
    them if there's any advice finally that
  • 00:25:56
    I would offer you all
  • 00:25:58
    is to recognize the difference recognize
  • 00:26:01
    that a PhD is very very different from
  • 00:26:05
    any other degree you will do and I've
  • 00:26:08
    seen so many students have so many
  • 00:26:11
    problems and leave the program if they
  • 00:26:13
    just assume that a PhD is like a
  • 00:26:15
    master's or a PhD is like an honors or
  • 00:26:18
    I've done a Capstone and I enjoyed it
  • 00:26:20
    therefore the PHD will be just like that
  • 00:26:24
    wrong wrong this degree is is completely
  • 00:26:28
    different from the other degrees that
  • 00:26:31
    exist in our universities it is
  • 00:26:33
    regulated it is governed very very
  • 00:26:37
    differently so go into a PhD knowing
  • 00:26:41
    that it is different and enjoy the
  • 00:26:44
    differences experience the differences
  • 00:26:48
    understand the differences so akba thank
  • 00:26:51
    you so much for this suggestion I loved
  • 00:26:53
    writing this one and it has been amazing
  • 00:26:55
    to get to know you in the last year or
  • 00:26:56
    so you take care mate and I wish you all
  • 00:26:59
    love light and peace
  • 00:27:26
    to
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