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Category Archives: Problem Solving
Things I wish I had known at the start of my PhD
I am entering the final stretch of my PhD and this is a list of things that I wish I had known (or things I wish someone would have told me) when I started my PhD… I have also included somethings … Read More
Thinking Ahead: Transferable Skills
On Heather Doran’s previous post, Tom Williamson (Doctor in Systems Biology), commented thus: “I’ve found out the hard way that a PhD does not make you more employable outside of academia, unless the job in question is explicitly related to … Read More
The Final Year Panic
I am fast approaching the final year of my PhD (come the 1st of September it will be official). The past two years have flown by so incredibly quickly. When I realised that September would be the beginning of the end I … Read More
What Makes a PhD?
The last few weeks haven’t been particularly successful and I have started to wonder what actually makes up a PhD. I thought I would have more time to think, read and ponder. More time to really explore a subject. At the … Read More
Tagged: PhD, PhD advice, phd bored, phd day to day, what makes a PhD
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Diving In
I tend to throw myself into things at 10000 miles an hour. Sometimes this can be good (I also have a small problem saying ‘no’ to things) and it has provided me with lots of great experiences from doing things … Read More
Tagged: patience, PhD, PhD advice, PhD help, phd life, PhD student
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PhDs in the insurance industry
I went to a combinatorics meeting recently. Among the technical talks there was one talk by Dr. Angela Koller on graph theory in industry. Dr. Koller is a mathematician by training who had worked as a research assistant at Royal … Read More
Tagged: insurance industry, risk analysis
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Research: role of problem solving
Physicist Michael Nielsen has some good advice on problem solving in research. The following is his insight on the skills of a problem solving approach to research: Clarity, goals, and forward momentum: Nielsen mentions that being clear about one’s goal … Read More
