How do you frame your scholarship? Do you have a metaphor for how you approach your thesis or dissertation? In her book Write No Matter What: Advice for Academics, Joli Jensen extols the benefits of craftsmanship as a metaphor or…
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On Craftsmanship as a Metaphor for Research
Posted in Thesis Tagged with: habits, professional development, research, research skills, student-supervisor relationship, thesis
Make or Break? The Impact of Student-Supervisor Relationships on Graduate Learning
Figure 1: A word cloud with the topics related to the student-supervisor relationship. The most visible terms are supervisor, student, discussion, and learning. (Majid, 2017b) “’Mentoring is best when it is free of pressure, and when it feels reciprocal’ (Cullingford,…
Posted in Professional Development, Skill Development, Transitioning Tagged with: degree progress, Grad Student Life, student-supervisor relationship, supervisor
So you want to be an Epidemiologist…
Last week, my Gradifying co-author Amanda highlighted how her degree is structured. Today, I’ll be talking about the degrees offered by the Department of Public Health Sciences. There are six factors that differentiate programs: the degree structure, courses, comps, research…
Posted in General, New Students, Student Perspective, Thesis Tagged with: being awesome, comprehensive exams, degree progress, existential crises, funding, General, Grad Student Life, Kingston, new students, productivity, publish, Student perspective, student-supervisor relationship, TA, teaching, thesis
Planning for the summer
This post may sounds a little premature to some of you. After all, it’s only March, we *just* changed the clocks and there’s still snow on the ground. However, before you know it summer will be on us and things…
On giving constructive and helpful feedback
Last time I spoke about how to deal with negative feedback, and how you can cope with it. However, as you transition from undergrad, to graduate student, to senior graduate student (to life afterwards), you’ll be placed more and more…
Posted in New Students, Student Perspective, Thesis Tagged with: being awesome, degree progress, grad life is fraught, Grad Student Life, humour, productivity, student-supervisor relationship, TA, teaching, work-life balance
Dealing with negative feedback
You know the feeling. You’ve spent the last month working on a manuscript/paper, have fleshed out your ideas, spent countless late nights editing and making things sound *just* right, and you’ve finally sent it in to your supervisor. This will…
Posted in General, New Students, Student Perspective, Thesis Tagged with: being awesome, degree progress, existential crises, Grad Student Life, humour, productivity, publish, student-supervisor relationship, TA, teaching, thesis, work-life balance
Welcome to Graduate School!
Hello there! The SGPS Orientation flyer is being mailed out, and so we’re expecting lots of new people checking out the site and going through the archives. To make your life easier though, I thought I’d summarize some of my…
Posted in General, Kingston, New Students, Student Perspective Tagged with: bottle post, degree progress, existential crises, frosh week, funding, grad life is fraught, Grad Student Life, hashtags, humour, Kingston, orientation, productivity, secret hidden hashtag, SGPS, student-supervisor relationship, time management, Union
Amanda Tracey: Feeling Guilty?….Well, Don’t!
I just wanted to start off by expressing how excited I am to be chosen as a new member of the Gradifying blogger team! I am a first year PhD student in Biology studying Plant Ecology and Evolution. I did…
Posted in General, New Students, Student Perspective Tagged with: Elbow lake, goal setting, guilt, relaxation, student-supervisor relationship, work/life balance
What Makes Grad School Worth It? – Guest Contributor Amanda Tracey
Here’s the first of the submissions we received and the second guest piece from Biology’s Amanda Tracey. Follow the many links and be richly rewarded with GIFs, arguably the cultural focal point of today’s emerging community of scholars.
Posted in General, New Students, Student Perspective, Thesis Tagged with: de/motivation, existential crises, student-supervisor relationship, TAing
Graduate Student Roundtable Part 1
Ed Note: I originally posted this on my blog Mr Epidemiology, but given that we’re in the midst of grad school application season, I thought it would be relevant to our readers. I’ve included the first part of the roundtable…
Posted in New Students, Student Perspective, Thesis Tagged with: degree progress, funding, Grad Student Life, student-supervisor relationship