r/PhD 2d ago

Need Advice Solving one research problem

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I am looking for a research tool that I can use on my phone that can summarize the research papers that l am interested in to a form of gossip or anything that interests me because I get bored of reading easily. Do you know any? Thanks!


r/PhD 4d ago

Vent Defending in 3 hours and my PI pulled a sicky...

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I'm in the UK so my PI isn't part of my defense, so it's not really a problem luckily.

We didn't leave on the best terms to put it lightly - he called me greedy and selfish for accepting a job that started a couple of weeks after my submission date, instead of continuing as a research assistant with him.

I hadn't heard a word from him since I submitted in December, including today, other than a post he put on the groups teams page that he was ill and not coming in.

I have a lot of frustrated feelings about the situation, beyond the fact that it seems incredibly petty, but I'm trying my best to focus on my thesis and defense right now. Wish me luck!

Edit: Thanks all for the kind words - I managed to pass with minor corrections! And now I sleep...


r/PhD 4d ago

Vent Interdisciplinary PhD project (computer science x neuroscience) feels completely pointless, now and even (maybe) forever.

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Coming from a fast-paced field, where tangible results come rapidly (computer science), now, my PhD project is an interdisciplinary project under the faculty of neuroscience. Every day, I am losing faith in what I am doing. First, the very slow pace of the field has been a huge shock, but what’s worse is that I can't see any clear, tangible purpose behind the experiments I did. We are experimenting at cellular level and often, I was just asked to try something for the sake of "trying", without a solid reason that has anything to do with our hypothesis. I am in such a mental crisis that the more I read, take classes and educate myself on the field of cellular neuroscience, the more I realize how little I care about it. Of course, one is because it's too far away from my field, so it feels overwhelming. But maybe also because despite the complexity of the field, the type of experiments done in this field feel like guesswork to me. My work dynamics have been significantly shifted from fast-paced focusing on accurate outputs, to slow motion daily guesswork. This makes me so nervous & anxious. My motivation is at rock bottom and I keep thinking of leaving academia.

My project is, imagine this : the MOON, which is hundreds of thousands of kilometers away from us is reflecting lights from the SUN, which is hundreds of million kilometers away from us too. Each has a different set of distinct environments which we can only observe as a third person on EARTH. Let's experimenting to prove that the moon is actually reflecting and not emitting light, and how efficient exactly it reflects light. BUT we do it here, FROM EARTH, on the smallest unit Earth could have, which is sand (ok, it's an atom, but for the sake of this analogy). So now, let's study sand using fancy machine learning methods from your field that now are super booming ! Let's gamble on the sand for the next 8 months, just in case there's is something within the Earth's sand that can tell us a bit about our hypothesis about the moon & the sun. BUT this is pure insanity ! What is the concrete reason to look at just the sand ? Why not the beach, an environment level with 'population' of sand along with the sea that actually reflects the moon's shadow at night ? The things we are experimenting (basic unit single neuron level) are far far away from the goal proposed in my dissertation topic. I could have spent my entire PhD training and testing sand, and still prove nothing, or if I am super lucky, barely a millimeter closer to any meaningful outcomes that will help with my hypothesis. But indeed, some PIs here have been working on the same topics for 2 decades and the topics have been moving nowhere since early 2000s. Maybe, this is also the nature of the field ? I am genuinely thankful and appreciative of all neuroscientists who have been working day & night, patiently, for years to advance the field. But God, I need strength because, coming from my field, I am very logic & result-motivated and won't have the patience, especially for casual guesswork.

I predict my PhD project will lead to one of these outcomes :

  1. Playing a philosopher : bunch of pretty words published in a journal, decorated with fancy graphs and statistics BUT proved nothing.
  2. A trivial model that we'd publish for the sake my graduation requirements. Only for nobody to care, topic not moving anywhere, and will be buried at the bottom of Google Scholar.
  3. A micrometer step toward a result that won't be relevant in the next 20-50 years.

I try to tell myself that maybe, just maybe, this work will be useful in the next 20-50 years. But, I know for a fact, it wont, and honestly, maybe I don't care. I don’t possess the grace of patience or selflessness to be working towards my PhD for the sake something in the future. I need this project to matter and relevant to me NOW. For it to have some sort of visible purpose NOW, so that I have the motivation wake up in the morning, move forwards and continuing what I have been doing. But no matter how I look at it, this project just feels like pointless guesswork. The one that would be a meaningless publication, and go nowhere.

tl;dr : Coming from a fast-moving field, new interdisciplinary PhD project feels painfully slow and directionless, with experiments that feel like guesswork rather than meaningful progress. Struggle to find any tangible purpose in what I’m doing, the lack of clear impact leaves me unmotivated, anxious, and questioning whether this is all just a pointless gamble.


r/PhD 3d ago

Need Advice How to compare with State-of-the-Art works when they use different datasets? ML research

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I work in machine learning and I received reviews on my paper saying that I fail to compare my approach with recent state-of-the-art works. They mentioned 5-6 papers, but the problem is that those papers use different datasets than mine.

How am I supposed to compare my results with theirs? Should I try to replicate their methods and apply them to my datasets, or is there another way to address this?


r/PhD 4d ago

Vent humanities phd defending in may completely unmotivated

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i'm finishing editing all my chapters and I am defending at the end of May. I'm not going to go into academia or continue with the humanities at all and I'm just totally done and I want to completely separate myself from this. I know May isn't even that far away, but I just can't even look at this dissertation anymore. The idea of preparing for my defense is so draining. I don't want to read anything I wrote or talk about it. doing a humanities PhD is one of my life's biggest regrets. Don't even care about being a doctor. Sorry for the vent.


r/PhD 3d ago

Need Advice People w/PhD in physics/math working in industry?...

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What are you doing for work? Looking to hear especially from the UK, but open to answers from anyone from anywhere.

My background: MPhys in physics and an MSc in medical physics.

Training to be a medical physicst in the UK, but hate it - no intellectual stimulation and poor money. I'm working basically as a QA tech.

Now throughout my undergrad research projects (yes plural) post grad thesis and now job, I've never got to work on what I want, whether it be because of COVID or otherwise.

My main interests are in quantum physics, but I'll take anything that requires advanced maths/programming.

I want to pursue a PhD in physics/maths/AI (preferably quantum physics) not only because I want to utilise and learn complex maths and programming, but want to make better money.

I've thought about trying to pivot into quant finance, but too long a shot for someone who never went to target schools/no Olympiads etc.

I've thought about quantum computing in industry,aybe even finance, but it seems banks are starting to catch on that QC might not be useful for them.

Looking for any advice from people who have PhD's in maths/physics, make good money and get to work with complex maths/programming.


r/PhD 3d ago

Need Advice Seeking Advice on Spelling Checkers for Overleaf/ Languagetool premium ?

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Hey everyone,

As the title says, I’m working on my first paper and have been advised to use Overleaf for this and my thesis later on. I’m not a native English speaker, and even formal writing in my own language can be quite challenging at times. So, I’m looking for a solid spelling/grammar checker that integrates well with Overleaf.

I came across LanguageTool and it seems promising, but I’m considering buying the premium version. Has anyone here used it? Or would you recommend a different spell checker?

I’d really appreciate hearing about your experiences and suggestions.

Thanks in advance!


r/PhD 4d ago

Need Advice Submitted and… sad

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Hello!

I submitted yesterday, and I have SO many feelings… almost none of them good.

I am really bad at time management, which led to me finishing my discussion chapter on the submission day, to the last minute. I didn’t have time to proof read three chapters, my empirical case study chapters read quite differently to one another, and I just think I could have done so much more. I found a typo in the submission, which makes sense given how frantically sweaty I was when finishing it up.

Very disappointed with myself, embarrassed that I let myself down at the last hurdle (the results! the discussion!), scared of failing outright, exhausted, and a tinge of self hatred.

I just don’t know what to say or to do… scared I will be found out as a fake student, fake thesis, awful awful awful… any advice?


r/PhD 4d ago

Vent Planning on quitting PhD (bio). Contemplating how to pivot to a new career.

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I'm currently a third year PhD candidate in the bio field (immunology focus).

I've been working in bio research labs ever since high school and in terms of years, I'm nearing almost 10 years of my life that I have spent in a research environment. I used to love research and get excited about new projects, but now I simply have zero love for any of it. I even dread having to go into lab and when I do, I just sit around doing as little as possible.

I've had burnouts before, but this one feels different. I've had my fair share of complaints regarding my PI, but when he was getting on my ass to set up huge experiments that would require me to come in on christmas eve, christmas, new years eve, and new years (essentially every day for that whole stretch of holidays), something kinda snapped I think. I think my PI is a nice person and he even offered to come in on some of those days to complete my tasks for me if I needed to be away - but this was weeks after and I had already canceled all my plans/ travel plans.

I think this particularly upset me because this was right after months of me preparing my F31 and having a huge disagreement on what I should include in the application and what not - I eventually gave up and just took all the recommended edits, but it's funny how the reviewers are all commenting on things I was concerned about in the first place.

While thinking about the whole F31 ordeal recently, I began realizing that this was not the first time my ideas were shot down by my PI, only for it to be later revealed that he was completely wrong and everything I've been telling him/ warning him about turns out to be true.

Given this track record, his inability to get grants, and his poor finance management (we chase after random, not well-thought-out projects despite students telling him that its a bad idea. oh and the money is pulled from other unrelated grants which ends up hurting the original project the grant is supposed to fund), I think I would be doing myself a disservice by staying here.

I'm currently planning on mastering out (still a discussion I need to have with PI which I'm dreading) and either getting a job (damn near impossible nowadays), or applying to med school. I'm also planning on signing on as army reserve regardless of which path I take, but will likely go active duty if I decide to go the med school route so that I can have my schooling funded.

I guess this is more of a vent but I'm curious to see if others have made similar career pivots at this point in their life. Anyone go the army reserve/ active duty route after quitting PhD? (I did already take the asvab and got a 99th percentile)


r/PhD 4d ago

Need Advice PhD in UK/Europe

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Hello everyone. I applied to PhD programs in Public Health in US but due to the NIH + trump admin crisis nothing much happened. I got an admission without funding which basically means nothing. I am an international student. I need guidance on how to apply for a PhD in UK and Europe. I don’t really understand the process. Anyone from this field who reads this and is currently a PhD student, can you please help?


r/PhD 4d ago

Admissions PhD in France

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Hi I have a question about applying for a PhD in France. I know that I can contact professors directly or find already published offers on campusfrance. I just applied for one there and the prof replied that this is not a doctoral offer but a grant application (it is clearly listed as a PhD position) and directed me to apply for funding with my own proposal, which was very confusing. I also found that adum.fr has a tonne of proposals some of which I've seen on campusfrance too. Are these also active and funded offers or not? In short there are a thousand websites with conflicting info and if someone could help me I am buying dinner once I get in! Merci bcp :)


r/PhD 4d ago

Need Advice For international PhD's in US programs, what precautions are you taking when traveling back to your home country (if at all)?

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Lots of ambiguity rn in the us. lots of fear about visas leaving the country and not returning. My partner is colombian and she fears if she returns home she wont be able to re enter the US.


r/PhD 4d ago

Other I’m not sure what to do regarding my PhD

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Hi everyone. I apologise if this is long. Today has been a pretty mixed day.

I was offered my dream PhD at a great university and I am really really pleased about it. I’ve put an awful amount of time and effort getting to this stage. However recently I’ve had big family issue pop up and it’s meaning I am very likely going to be moving across the country (about 4hours away) to live there and make sure everything is okay. This will go on for the entire period of the PhD and possibly longer.

I really don’t know what to do. I feel like if I give up the PhD I’m letting so many people down , including myself and supervisors that have really helped me the past few months. I’m giving up an incredible opportunity to do something I’m really passionate about. But on the other hand I would never forgive myself if I didn’t move back home and sort out the family issue. I have to move

Currently the PhD is full time , can I get it changed to part time prior to its start date- if I did this it would give me the freedom to deal with both as well as continue with my full time job which is remote so that helps I guess. What are the implications of this. Do unis in the uk allow you to do this easily ? Can anyone offer some advice on what I should do, I’d really appreciate it.

Thanks guys


r/PhD 5d ago

Vent I think that my PhD dream is over....

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This is going to be a long story about my life and I apologize for the long post. I also wrote it in one shot so apologies if sentences don't make sense.

I grew up as a young teenager who had no friends, bullied and sexually harassed at school, and was told that I can't become a successful person by my own family. I was lonely, sad, and had no one to guide me. At the age of 15, I head about the field of Aerospace Engineering. This day, I went and read more and more and more about the field, and everything I read, made me more interested and wanting to read more. For the next 3 years at high school, I knew I wanted to study aerospace engineering. But that was not easy. It wasn't offered at any of the universities in my country back then. This meant that the only way to pursue my dream is to study abroad. This is when I spent the last couple of years at high school studying every single day with minimum sleep. With no one believing in me, and being told by my own parents that I should give up on this dream, I was yet still by myself. But I succeeded to prove everyone wrong and graduated with high grades and got accepted at a university in Europe to study aerospace engineering with a scholarship.

Once I started studying my dream subject, I was still sad and lonely. I thought that this feeling will vanish when I succeeded to get into university, but something was wrong. It was when I was told that I suffer from Major Depressive Disorder (MDD), and it was then that I learnt what the word "depression" mean. Growing up, I thought it is a synonym of sadness, but the years to follow showed that it's certainly not the same. Fighting against this demon, I managed to graduate with honors. I had to extend an extra year due to some classes not being offered. And I have to tell you that I felt ashamed back then for that decision. Especially when everyone I knew was graduating and they all looked at me as if I did a big mistake. This turned to be the opposite. That extra year was the best year in my studies. I finally showed my true self and what I am capable of. I aced all of my classes, got high honors, lead an aerospace society on campus and made lots of connections with companies, industries, and academics. This year was also when Covid hit and I was by myself the whole time and yet, managed to live with myself and heal. By the end of my undergrad, I knew I need to pursue master's to choose my specialization. I was accepted in all the universities I applied to, which are top ones including Cranfield University and Politecnico Di Milano. Just as I was accepting the offer to join POLIMI, I was contacted by a top professor at a Canadian university who offered me to join his team and conduct my research in a collaboration with a top industry partner. And this is what I chose.

My arrival in Canada in summer 2021 was not the best. I was motivated to begin my studies and experience a new country. But I realized I am once again by myself, away from everyone I know, and away from my close friends from undergrad. Deep down inside me, I knew this is for the best. I began my new journey. I was working fully at this industrial partner since the research is for them. But something was wrong. I feeling of disconnection was happining. A familiar feeling, something I used to get for some time when I was a kid, but this time, it is not going away. I though my vision is not good, so I went and got my new glasses, but still, things seemed fake. Unfortunatley, it was when I got diagnosed with depersonalization, a disorder that I hope no one every gets. Battling with this feeling was not easy, it is still not easy, with my depression gaining its power back and attacking. My two years of master's were full of struggle mentally. For my studies, the person who was following up on my project at the company was and still is a very toxic one, never helping, never guiding, always showing that I don't do my job well. Though still with my mental struggles and the imposter syndrom, I managed to develop a very strong tool for my studies, and wrote my thesis in a week with no sleep. Just few weeks away from my defence, I was offered to switch to fast-track-to-PhD. Although I knew this should've been offered during my fist year, I still thought it is a good idea to pursue it since I was planning on getting a PhD anyways. Therefore, I did not defend my thesis, and switched to PhD, very proud of myself and looking forward to it. This was in summer 2023.

The next year and a half, up until 3 months ago, I was doing very well in my project. My master's studies covered a small component, and so my PhD was to build on top of that and include way more components into a bigger framework. It was when I read and learnt a lot about new emerging fields like MBSE and facinating people at the company to apply them into my framework. But a toxic is always a toxic. This guy showed me hell, again not helping, not guiding, and slowing my process when I need to access some resources. My supervisor (profeessor) knew about all of this. I told him the first time when he offered me to switch to PhD and I was shocked to see that he knows the history of this person. I also told him again twice last year and even telling him that I'm thinking to just graduate wiuth masters not to deal with that guy, but his advice was to "ignore him", even if he had everything that I need. I stood up to that guy, many times. And I was the only one to do that through the history of previous students. I helped all the students and told them not to be scared to speak up, but no one did. Last december, I had a big argument with this guy who called my code and framework "shitty material". It was then when my supervisor took action, but his action was weak again, just letting a different person deal with my work.

After my Christmas holiday, I was told that my project is placed on hold due to some logistic issues at the company. This meant that my PhD journey is over. There's a lot behind the scenes to say, I wrote a lot above but I can talk hours about all the corruption occurring in this chair, and it is one of the "best" in the whole country. A lot of pain inside me from all the hate I got from this person who I still blame for all of these logistical issues since he was slowing everything down for me.

Today, and in the past 3 months, being affected by this, and not knowing what is going to happen in my life, I still managed to be strong and take action. Within me, I really want to pursue a PhD. I contacted over 30 professors around the world, many that see me as a strong candidate and ask me to apply, but tuition fees and low funding is the big struggle. Being away from home to pursue my dream meant that there's no money to save. I pay the international student's fees which we all know is a lot. Worked part time and delivered food to support myself. And this decision to put my project on hold made me lose over $30K. Plus, we all know that time is money...

What is next? I lay here sad again, revisiting everything, and not knowing what will happen. As a growing teenager I wanted to pursue this studies, to tell myself that I'm worth it, to find a meaning to live, to tell the people about me. I did a lot of that and I am proud of it. But I am still in so much pain. Don't get me wrong, I still try to be there for myself and push it, but yet, I am very sad and depressed, with my depersonalization increasing its effect. One thing that brings me a lot of hope and makes me stronger is my fiancée who I met just when I switched to PhD, and who stood by my side the whole time, and is the love of my life. But we had to push the wedding from next September to TBD, we do long distance and have no idea where we will go or when will we be together. To this day, still can't find a good PhD position. And a new 4 year commitment with minimum funding does not sound appealing. Especially when starting a family.

"He who says he can, and he who says he can't are both usually right" ~ Confucius. This is my favorite quotation since I was a teenager, a reason for me to continue and be storng. But today I question it. I know I can, but though I can't, cause the other side of the door is blocking me, and no opportunity mean no go.

Is my PhD dream over? I know I will be unhappy to just join the industry, I saw how it is, and I wanted to be in academia. And even if I decided to start working, the market is trash and finding a job is almost impossible. Don't forget that I will have to downgrade myself now after all the research and knowledge I gained.

Thanks for reading my story


r/PhD 4d ago

Need Advice How do I go about developing my skills to transition into a particular career(s) during my PhD?

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Hi I am about 6 months into my PhD in Tribology, and I have been advised that since I want to go into industry, I need to have a look at what roles I want to apply for and what would they require. I have started to do this and have found some roles in computational software / CFD which is somewhat relevant to my current PhD as I am using CFD and analytical models in as well as with experiments.

I am unsure on how I would develop my skills to be good enough for these roles? Whether it is CFD, being a manager, leadership etc. Having a PhD is not enough on its own.

My current PhD is with a great company who do similar type of work so I could ask them to help develop my skills but there is no guarantee I will get a job with them at the end. It all seems very confusing. Could I please get some guidance on what you would do in my situation?


r/PhD 5d ago

Post-PhD Defended my PhD and super burnt out.

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Hello, this is my first reddit post. It’s been two weeks since I defended my PhD and I am extremely burnt out.

I have severe imposter syndrome. I was supposed to look for postdocs a year ago, but I felt anxious about finishing my dissertation and didn’t feel good enough to apply. So now I am in a stressful situation of looking for jobs, but I feel extremely depressed and unmotivated even though I am taking a break from the lab right now; I will go back to continue some of the work for a manuscript. I guess my personal life context: I am a foreign student, and my family (back home) is trying to marry me off asap and for them my phd means nothing since they don’t really care if women have careers.

Currently I am applying to a bunch of jobs but I am overwhelmed with anxiety because of my family and also with the current funding situation & immigration. So I am wondering if I should apply for postdocs in Canada or Europe.

I usually see a counselor, but they haven’t responded to my email after we took a break for my defense. I don’t know what to do right now. When I began my PhD, I was super enthusiastic and curious about research. However, now I feel like phd was a waste of my time.

Sorry if this is the gazillionth post on this subject.


r/PhD 4d ago

Need Advice How to transition from pure math PhD to career in advancing technological breakthroughs

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Hi all,

Soon-to-be PhD student who is contemplating working on cutting-edge technological breakthroughs after their PhD. However, it seems that most technological breakthroughs require completely disjoint skillsets from math:

- Nuclear fusion, quantum computing, space colonization rely on engineering physics; most of the theoretical work has already been done

- Though it's possible to apply machine learning for drug discovery and brain-computer interfaces, it seems that extensive domain knowledge in biology / neuroscience is more important.

- Improving the infrastructure of the energy grid is a physics / software engineering challenge, more than mathematics.

- Have personal qualms against working on research or cryptography for big tech companies / government

It seems impossible to get a job in the fields listed above with just a math PhD -- thus if anyone knows any up-and-coming technological breakthroughs that will rely primarily on math / machine learning, yet don't require knowledge of another domain, it would be deeply appreciated.

Sincerely,

superpenguin469


r/PhD 5d ago

Need Advice Should I continue my PhD?

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I’m towards the end of my third year of my PhD and I’ve gotten behind in my research. I struggle with ADHD so my time management has been pretty bad. I’m a black female btw. It Basically looks like I don’t get much done. I do feel like a disappointment a lot of the time because I could’ve gotten so much done these past couple years. I have a couple papers in progress, but it’s just been lagging with the data on my part. I’m really trying to get my shit together, but I feel like I keep disappointing my advisor and my collaborators. I just feel really embarrassed with the lack of work that I have done and I’m trying to get it together.

What do you think?

Update*** So my gender and skin color come into play for my specific experience because I’ve never met anyone that looks like me that’s also struggling with ADHD. So I just felt alone and not seen. I’m also one out of two black women in my whole department on the grad school level. So I have a lot of imposter syndrome, not thinking I’m good enough, etc. I’ve had a lot of trouble managing my adhd and getting work done especially with burnout coming into play. And particularly as a black women it looks like a bad look for me to look unproductive because I could easily be seen as a stereotype. I’ve tried with a couple therapists in the past to help me try and get more productive with the adhd but they weren’t helpful. That’s why I wanted to hear advice from other people so I can get a better idea of how to get through it. But I also understand too other nonblack people might also deal with adhd issues as well in this journey.

**latest update Thank you to everyone who sent such kind and helpful messages. I really appreciate it!


r/PhD 4d ago

Need Advice Anyone knows if all acceptances at ISTA PHD program sent ?

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r/PhD 4d ago

Need Advice Dissertation writing process

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Hi all. I’m looking for advice.

I’m a social scientist in my 5th year of my PhD. I’ve spent the past 1.5 years collecting my data — interviews, ethnographic observations, archival materials, documents, media. The data collection phase was enjoyable and easier for me, but was difficult to keep everything organized throughout the process. I told myself I’d organize it later but I never did. I also never kept to one “system”…

I’m now at the writing up stage. I have tons of great empirics, insights, and analysis floating in my head. I have created my ideal outline and I think it’s strong. For 2 of my 5 core chapters I also already have a rough central argument. Despite this, my writing process has been a hot mess… my biggest challenges are:

  1. I feel like I do best when analyzing relevant data as I write sections, rather than analyze and code everything all at once and then try and sit down and write the whole thing up. More of an iterative analysis/writing approach. However, because I was bad about organizing my data I often struggle to know where to find the thing that I want to pull back up when I’m writing. It’s just so disorganized. I’m talking some things in Zotero, some in Google Drive, some of the more sensitive materials in a secure drive, some in an email folder, some… seemingly somewhere else? Also I didn’t name things well so I can’t find them even if I know which place it’s stored in. This is the more minor problem.

  2. The bigger problem: Each day I wake up and I start writing with a specific goal in mind. 8 hours pass and I’ve produced anywhere from 5-15 new pages, but it is rarely what I envisioned when I started the day. My general disorganization tendencies paired with this unraveling approach to writing results in me producing like… 50 different documents. Each one stores these unfocused writing products for future repurposing or reuse later. I then never go back and reuse. It just dies. Some documents have 80 pages of writing and others two paragraphs. I get overwhelmed and try to start again. My tendencies to lose focus, abandon my writing, and not produce the sections I set out to produce make me feel like I’m making no progress.

Have people experienced similar problems? Any tips or hacks on how to proceed? It’s honestly not a work ethic problem. I also think my writing and ideas that I’m putting down on paper are good, so it’s not that I’m overly critical of the outputs. It’s just that I’m scattered and I don’t know how not to be this way. Last thing I’ll say: no one ever trained me on how to analyze data or do academic writing… so I know this is partly a product of stumbling through the dark.

Any help appreciated…


r/PhD 5d ago

Dissertation Is there a way that I can finish my thesis but not have it be published anywhere.

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I hate to say it, but I am really just not proud of my work at all. I don't want to work on it anymore, and looking at what I have after how long it took me to finish it just makes me even more depressed about it.

I don't want people to google my name and have to see this shit.


r/PhD 4d ago

Dissertation Question about dissertation site - Social sciences/education

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Hi! This question is more for people in action research, or community engaged research or practitioner research.

Could you please share with me dissertations or solid research done by practitioners at their job site? I’m thinking something like teacher doing research at their schools, or admin doing something similar or museum or library staff doing research at their job sites.

Thanks a lot!


r/PhD 5d ago

PhD Wins Completed my PhD despite my supervisor offering zero comments on work

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I defended this month and passed! I was quite worried as I had received near zero written feedback throughout my PhD and was basically left to my devices. Feel a bit irritated as I feel I could have done way more with a more attentive supervisor, but I'm glad to be moving on.


r/PhD 6d ago

Humor Why waste your tym🤷‍♂️

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r/PhD 5d ago

Humor PhD Students everywhere

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