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University partnerships that let PhD students split their time between two countries and keep jobs at home have many benefits.
Reporting on their findings from qualitative research project focused PhD students across China, Hugo Horta and Huan Li explore how a culture of publication has become central to doctoral study and…
The cost-of-living crisis is a fundamental threat for PhD scholars and early-career researchers. They need to be paid properly.
Science is riddled with stories of getting scooped, data glitches and funding crises. Five researchers share stories of how they rallied.
Programs that systematically monitor and promote the mental health of Ph.D. students are urgently needed.
If you're starting a doctoral programme later this year, particularly if your institution is still facing COVID-19 restrictions, Ciara O'Brien has some advice.
Graduate student advocacy groups were central to designing the program, which provides a semester of funding if a trainee needs time to find a new mentor.
The Dance Your Ph.D. contest has been challenging scientists to explain their research through dance for 14 years now. The competition got a new COVID-19 category this year.
Alyssa Frederick defended her thesis remotely before the coronavirus outbreak began. Here's how.
You learned a lot about social distancing when you wrote a dissertation. That experience can help you get through this pandemic crisis.
An example of finding the balance between personal and professional lives during moves overseas and in and out of academia.
This report shows the results of a survey conducted in spring 2019 among all people who received a PhD in political science from a Swiss university during the last eleven years (2008 to 2018) and among postdocs working in a Swiss university in June 2019. Thus, this survey sheds light on the experiences and career paths of both postdocs and doctors in political science who left academia. Moreover, it compares the results regarding postdocs with a similar study carried out in 2012.
A move from Germany taught Deb Raj Aryal how to acclimatize to a new research culture.
Students should actively consider and prepare for the work they are personally most suited to, whether within or beyond the academy.
Academic systems rely on the existence of a supply of "outsiders" ready to forgo wages and employment security in exchange for the prospect of uncertain security, prestige, freedom and reasonably high salaries that tenured positions entail.
Economic and Social Research Council may provide four years of PhD funding amid concerns over stress caused by three-year model
In this second article to mark Nature's 2019 graduate survey, respondents call for more one-to-one support and better career guidance.
Nature's survey of more than 6,000 graduate students reveals the turbulent nature of doctoral research. The mental health of PhD researchers demands urgent attention.
Anxiety and depression among graduate students seems to be on the rise. Systemic change is needed to halt an ongoing crisis.
In the spirit of acknowledging and normalizing failure in the process, a doctoral student defended her dissertation in a skirt made of rejection letters from the course of her PhD.
Students must learn that a doctoral degree isn't for everyone - and that not doing one might be a better option.
As it turns out, many Ph.D. students resent the expectation that they bring food and drinks to their thesis defenses. UCLA's psychology department just said they shouldn't do it.
Former students recount their experiences dropping out.
The standardized test normally required for graduate school entrance in the US is being dropped by an increasing number of science PhD programs, amid concerns about diversity and the test's predictive value.
A team of researchers led by RIT Professor Casey Miller discovered that traditional admissions metrics for physics Ph.D. programs such as the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) do not predict completion and hurt the growth of diversity in physics.
Nature Human Behaviour and the Behavioural and Social Sciences Community invite researchers across all career stages and disciplines to share their thoughts on publishing while training for a PhD. A broad selection of submissions will be published as World Views in Nature Human Behaviour or will be posted on the Behavioural and Social Sciences community page. Send us a short presubmission enquiry now!
Hayley Teasdale argues that PhD studies are an ideal time for developing your research communication and impact skills and growing your entrepreneurial and organizational capabilities.
