Everyday PhD stuff
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Call for participants: Doctoral Research in Brunel University London
Để đọc tiếng Việt, vui lòng bấm vào đây. Frequently Asked Questions can be found here. Study title: Understanding individual sellers’ legitimacy evaluations of platform mechanisms: An institutional logic perspective Researcher: Tracey Quach Research ethics approval has been granted for this study to be carried out between 01/08/2024 and 31/12/2025 You are being invited to take part…
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How a non-academic get a funded PhD offer – Your application (Part 2)
In the earlier post, I have gone through the hard components of the application. By “hard”, I meant the things that you have little or no control over, because they are in the past, and they are hard measures of your capability to conduct a PhD. If you don’t have such a flashy record, it…
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How a non-academic get a funded PhD offer – Your application (Part 1)
It took me a year and a half to finish this piece of writing because it’s not a straightforward topic and my capacity to gather objective evidence is limited. Although I have to admit it is tempting to make overgeneralised or oversimplified statements, I’m only writing now what I believe is right from my experience…
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My first teaching job
You know how students from all over the world come to the UK for its world-class education? Okay. Now imagine you’ve got a chance to be teaching at one of these prestigious universities. If that does not excite you, I don’t know what will! As a funded PhD student in Brunel Business School, I was…
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I lost 2 pregnancies during the first year of my PhD
It’s been a week since I lost my second child, and here I am sitting in my PhD computer lab with my head in the clouds and my body floating around like it’s not attached to the ground, deciding to write down my stories as a way of piecing the past few months of my…
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How a non-academic get a funded PhD offer – Motivation
For the record, I’m writing this coming from a very humble place, because I know my story isn’t spectacular. I have known a lot more people who had to overcome much more challenges to achieve way more than I did. However, each person’s experience is unique, and being a PhD applicant myself less than a…
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Everybody needs to win sometimes
Small wins are like kindle to a flame. It feeds into your pride and happiness, and keeps you going a long way. I’ve always thought of a PhD program as a long-term investment. You put your money, your time, and efforts in it with the hope that several years from now it will generate benefits,…
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Hello World!
My name is Tracey, and I am a PhD candidate at Brunel University London. If you asked me 18 months ago, I would never ever imagine myself—an average Vietnamese freelance content writer with a humble academic background—pursuing a PhD in Business and Management, and living in one of the greatest cities on earth. To be…
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