Tag: education
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A PhD food journal – What I eat in a month
“Please eat a lot so you have the strength to get on.” It’s how our Vietnamese peeps usually show support and care to the young people having to work hard for their studies and career. Yet I have long realised that when I eat a lot, my body has to work harder to digest all…
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How I got over 2 failed pregnancies during my PhD
2024 has got a tough start: I just lost my first pregnancy by the end of 2023, tried again and lost another one shortly after that, right in the middle of Jan 2024. But all the losses have not been in vein, I guess, because in weathering through it all, both my life and my…
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What does it take to complete a PhD?
I had my annual progression review on 20th September 2024. The results were satisfactory. Yet, I was suggested to take a step back. I need to redo part of my literature review before getting on with data collection. It seemed alright, from the outsider’s perspectives. But for me who has spent the greater part of…
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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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