In this blog, resident blogger, Beth Price, reflects on the challenges and possibilities that the arts and humanities face from A.I., and asks whether we’re all doomed?
My Research Life: Attempting to Avoid Burnout
In this week’s blog, resident blogger Beth Price talks mental health, burnout, and the pressure to do self-care perfectly.
Back to Basics: How Not To Give A Research Presentation
In this week’s blog, resident blogger Beth Price gives her worst tips on turning your research into a presentation, just in time for conference season!
Back to Basics: Thesis or Tweetsis?
In this week’s blog, resident blogger Beth Price considers the pros and cons of sharing your research on social media and shares her advice for anyone considering trying to go viral.
Back to Basics: Feedback and Confidence Beyond the Red Pen
In this blog Beth Price shares her advice for dealing with critical feedback on your work, and keeping your self-motivation and self-confidence up in the face of negative comments.
Back to Basics: A Balancing Act, or How to Keep a Work/Life Balance During Your PhD
In this week’s blog, resident blogger Beth shares her tips on how to maintain a work/life balance during your PhD. Photo by Tim Gouw on Pexels.com Full disclosure, when this blog goes live I will be up a hill in the Lake District. An old friend is visiting the UK for a few days and … Continue reading Back to Basics: A Balancing Act, or How to Keep a Work/Life Balance During Your PhD
My Research Life: International Women’s Day as a Woman in Academia
In this week’s blog, Beth Price celebrates International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month, reflecting on what still needs to be done. International Women's Day Poster, free resource from IWD website March is Women’s History Month, and this Friday, 8 March, is International Women’s Day (IWD), so naturally I have been thinking about my existence … Continue reading My Research Life: International Women’s Day as a Woman in Academia
Back to Basics: Building networks beyond your department
In this week’s blog, Beth Price shares her advice on how to network as a postgraduate or early-career researcher, and how to make meaningful connections outside of your department. Photo by fauxels on Pexels.com Mention the word “networking” within hearing distance of a group of postgraduate students, and they will either shudder or suddenly become … Continue reading Back to Basics: Building networks beyond your department
Back to Basics: How to Read Academic Papers
In this article, resident blogger Beth Price shares her top tips on how to read research papers effectively, prepare for your literature review, and not freak out. By the time you sign up for any post-graduate study, let alone a PhD, you will have read so many papers and cited so many books that you … Continue reading Back to Basics: How to Read Academic Papers
Media, Medicine, Modern Woman: My PhD Story
In this blog, resident SGSAH blogger, Beth Price, talks through how she chose her PhD project, working in the field of Chinese Studies, and the ever-expanding list of questions she is trying to answer. My PhD research sort-of follows my master’s thesis, which focused on the Chinese artist, Pan Yuliang (1895 - 1977). I first … Continue reading Media, Medicine, Modern Woman: My PhD Story