How to Get a PhD

How to Get a PhD, available at $59.99, has an average rating of 4.3, with 42 lectures, based on 38 reviews, and has 2083 subscribers.

You will learn about How to achieve a PhD How to identify the right topic for your PhD thesis Finding the right supervisor for your PhD thesis Finding the best university for your PhD thesis How to successfully navigate the PhD process How to course-correct if problems arise PhD Research Research Paper Writing How to succeed in academia Research skills Research strategy How to Fund Your PhD without Student Debt How to Write a PhD thesis This course is ideal for individuals who are PhD students or Grad students or Postgraduate students or Students considering doing a PhD or Researchers or Academic or Research students It is particularly useful for PhD students or Grad students or Postgraduate students or Students considering doing a PhD or Researchers or Academic or Research students.

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Summary

Title: How to Get a PhD

Price: $59.99

Average Rating: 4.3

Number of Lectures: 42

Number of Published Lectures: 42

Number of Curriculum Items: 45

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 45

Original Price: $84.99

Quality Status: approved

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What You Will Learn

How to achieve a PhD
How to identify the right topic for your PhD thesis
Finding the right supervisor for your PhD thesis
Finding the best university for your PhD thesis
How to successfully navigate the PhD process
How to course-correct if problems arise
PhD Research
Research Paper Writing
How to succeed in academia
Research skills
Research strategy
How to Fund Your PhD without Student Debt
How to Write a PhD thesis

Who Should Attend

PhD students
Grad students
Postgraduate students
Students considering doing a PhD
Researchers
Academic
Research students

Target Audiences

PhD students
Grad students
Postgraduate students
Students considering doing a PhD
Researchers
Academic
Research students

How do you discover the right topic for your PhD thesis, choose the best advisor, and select the right University for your PhD research? How do you ensure that you get funding for your PhD without taking on student debt?

These are the first and critical steps in setting you up to succeed in your PhD quest.

This course will guide you through these steps so that you will be better informed to make better decisions in these key areas and help you achieve your PhD in the fastest and most effective way possible.

After completing this course you will be able:

1. To understand the process in how best to achieve a PhD for you

2. To identify the critical steps in selecting a topic for PhD research

3. Identifying the critical steps in finding the right advisor for PhD research

4. Critical analysis aiding in the process of choosing the right University for PhD research

5. To be aware of the funding options available for funding your PhD

6. To write your PhD thesis and learn processes for research paper writing

7. To successfully navigate the PhD process by being more informed about what it involves

Led by leading academic and Oxford University Press author with over ten years of experience working in European centres for Higher Education, the course contains short videos, transcriptions, and an exclusive audio interview with Professor Inger Mewburn, a world expert on PhD research, author and founder of the popular Thesiswhisperer blog.

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Getting clear and unambiguous

Lecture 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: The PhD Canvas: Your PhD Roadmap

Lecture 1: The PhD Canvas/ Research Canvas: Your One Page Research Proposal

Lecture 2: Filling out the PhD Canvas

Chapter 3: Step 1: How to Select your PhD Topic

Lecture 1: Discovering your topic

Lecture 2: How I discovered my topic

Lecture 3: Narrowing down your topic

Lecture 4: What if someone else is working on my topic?

Lecture 5: Finding the gap

Lecture 6: Create a working bibliography

Lecture 7: An example from my own research

Chapter 4: Step 2: How to Select your PhD Supervisor

Lecture 1: Selecting the right supervisor

Lecture 2: What to expect

Lecture 3: Distance supervision?

Lecture 4: Action steps

Chapter 5: Step 3: How to Select your PhD University

Lecture 1: Selecting the right University

Lecture 2: Criteria to look out for

Lecture 3: Settling in

Lecture 4: Problem shooting and changing supervisors

Lecture 5: Action steps

Chapter 6: Step 4: Funding Your PhD

Lecture 1: The Cardinal Rule: Doing the PhD Debt Free

Lecture 2: How I Funded my PhD

Lecture 3: Why I Quit Oxford University

Lecture 4: Doing a Part-Time PhD

Lecture 5: Types of Scholarships and Funding Options

Lecture 6: PhD Student Debt: Some Stats

Lecture 7: Action Steps

Lecture 8: Top 10 Tips for Getting Your PhD

Lecture 9: Further Reading: Top 3 Recommended Books

Lecture 10: One Final Word

Chapter 7: Step 5: Writing Your PhD thesis

Lecture 1: Eating the Elephant: Writing your PhD thesis

Lecture 2: The DSSS Formula

Lecture 3: Thinking in Small Assignments

Lecture 4: How to Incubate Ideas

Lecture 5: The Snowflake Method

Lecture 6: A and B Time: Building a Writing Routine

Lecture 7: The Pomodoro Method

Lecture 8: Your Workspace

Lecture 9: Recommended Books on Writing

Lecture 10: Forming a Writing Support Group

Lecture 11: The Magic of a Whiteboard

Lecture 12: Who are you Writing for?

Chapter 8: Navigating the PhD Process with Professor Inger Mewburn

Lecture 1: Negotiating the PhD process: A Conversation with Dr Inger Mewburn

Instructors

Alexander O'Hara PhD
Academic Author

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2 stars: 2 votes
3 stars: 2 votes
4 stars: 9 votes
5 stars: 23 votes

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