The 7 secrets of highly successful PhD students
It seems everyone has 7 secrets to success, and now someone has hopped on the 7-secrets bandwagon with something for PhD students. Thinkwell is an Australian company offering a seminar and associated...
View ArticleWhat to do when the PhD is finished?
So you’re wondering what to do once your PhD is finally completed? First, take a holiday. Completing a PhD is an intense and draining exercise, and you should take some time to refresh. Then you need...
View ArticleHow to fail a PhD
I read an interesting post today by Matt Might on “10 reasons PhD students fail”, and I thought it might be helpful to reflect on some of the barriers to PhD completion that I’ve seen. Matt’s ideas are...
View ArticleWhy God never received tenure
He had only one major publication. It was in Hebrew. It had no references. It wasn’t published in a refereed journal. Some even doubt he wrote it by himself. It may be true that he created the world,...
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What you wish you knew before you started a PhD
I asked my research group recently what they wished they had learned before they started work on a PhD. Here are some of the responses. More mathematics. Particular topics they named included real...
View ArticleEstablishing priority
The nature of research is that other people are probably working on similar ideas to you, and it is possible that someone will beat you to publishing them. When I was working on my PhD, I discovered...
View ArticlePaperpile makes me more productive
One of the first things I tell my new research students is to use a reference management system to help them keep track of the papers they read, and to assist in creating bib files for their...
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Travelling Thilaksha
One of my PhD students, Thilaksha Tharanganie, has been very successful in getting travel funding to attend conferences. She was the subject of a write-up in today’s Monash News. We encourage students...
View ArticleACEMS Business Analytics Prize 2016
We have established a new annual prize for research students at Monash University in the general area of business analytics, funded by the Australian Centre of Excellence in Mathematical and...
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