How to Get Your PhD

A Handbook for the Journey

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

Av Gavin Brown, University of Manchester) Brown, Gavin (Professor, Professor

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A unique take on how to survive and thrive in the process your PhD, this is a book that stands out from the crowd of traditional PhD guides. Compiled by a leading UK researcher, and written in a highly personal one-to-one manner, How to Get Your PhD showcases the thoughts of diverse and distinguished minds hailing from the UK, EU, and beyond, spanning both academia and industry. With over 150 bitesize nuggets of actionable advice, it offers more detailed contributions covering topics such as career planning, professional development, diversity and inclusion in science, and the nature of risk in research.How to Get Your PhD: A Handbook for the Journey is as readable for people considering a PhD as it is for those in the middle of one: aiming to clarify the highs and lows that come when training in the profession of research, while providing tips & tricks for the journey. This concise yet complete guide allows students to “dip in” and read just what they need, rather than adding to the mountain of reading material they already have.

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Utgivningsdatum2021-03-01
Mått130 x 195 x 13 mm
Vikt318 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor272
FörlagOUP OXFORD
ISBN9780198866923

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Gavin Brown is Professor of Machine Learning, and Director of Research for the Department of Computer Science, at the University of Manchester, UK. He obtained his PhD in 2004 from the University of Birmingham, winning the British Computer Society Distinguished Dissertation Award, given annually for the most outstanding UK thesis in Computer Science. In 2005 he joined Manchester, and since then has built a team working on Machine Learning and Data Science, contributing both fundamental and applied research, funded by the UK and EU government as well as industry sponsors

1: What is a PhD?2: Things you need to know3: Things that will happen4: How to Find your New Idea5: How to work with a Supervisor6: Work on Yourself7: How to Read8: How to Write9: How to give Presentations10: What happens in a Viva?11: Your Post-PhD Life12: Skills you will have gainedi: Professor Dame Nancy Rothwell DBE FRS: Choosing a Career in Scienceii: Professor Victoria Burns: Becoming a Reflective Professionaliii: Professor Steve Furber CBE FRS FREng: Doing your PhD as part of a teamiv: Dr Lucy Kissick: Saying yes to opportunity and nov: Professor Hiranya Peiris: The Rewards of Risk in Researchvi: Professor Melanie Leng MBE: Top Writing Tipsvii: Professor Jeremy Wyatt: Mistakes your Supervisor will makeviii: Professor David Hand OBE FBA MMC: A PhD in Statistics & Data Scienceix: Dr Carolyn Virca: Building a Strong Support Network .x: Dr Shakir Mohamed: Inventing Ourselves: Responsibility & Diversity in Researchxi: Dr Jonny Brooks-Bartlett: Public Engagement in Researchxii: Dr Jennifer Polk: Your career is up to you

One of the aspects of this book, besides the content, that makes it so captivating is simply the writing style. The book is written so that reading it is easy, the ideas digestible. In the chapter on how to write, Brown shares his secret to writing so engagingly ... What I took away from reading this book, though, was just how universal the experiences of graduate students are. From wallowing in feelings of inadequacy to the exhilarating sensation of figuring out something that nobody has ever figured out before, Brown captures the essence of what most graduate students experience. He arms grad students (and potential grad students!) with information that will make their journey a bit easier, regardless of what field they're in.