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Read our exclusive interviews with past and current PhD students to find out what it’s like to do a PhD.

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Dr Amit Kumar Singh

Dr Singh earned his PhD in Nanotechnology from Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IIT Guwahati), India...

Abdullah-Al-Zubaer Imran

Abdullah recently finished his PhD at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). His computer science research...

Rakhi Vishwakarma

Rakhi is a PhD student at the Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai, India. Her research is...

Jay Dave

Jay is in the third year of his PhD at Savitribai Phule Pune University, researching the...

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Chris Proctor

Chris is a third (and final) year PhD student at Ulster University. His project aims to...

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Aaron Jones

Aaron's now writing up his PhD thesis at the University of Birmingham. His research has investigated...

Noelia Dominguez Falcon

Noelia is just two months away from submitting her PhD thesis at the University of East...

Nina Higson-Sweeney

Nina's in the first year of her PhD in the Department of Psychology at the University...

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Freija Mendrik

Freija is half way through her PhD at the Energy and Environment Institute, University of Hull,...

Julia Di

Julia is entering the third year of a combined master's and PhD program at Stanford University....

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Writing Habits That Work

Don’t Let Research Overwhelm You: Writing Habits that Work

There’s no doubt about it – writing can be difficult. Whether you’re writing the first sentence of a paper or a grant proposal, it’s easy to feel like you’re drowning in a sea of words. However, good writing is critical to academic success, so here are six habits for research...

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