Or how I stopped worrying and started to embrace grading I was lucky enough to begin teaching during my Masters. So I started my PhD with one year of teaching experience. I loved being in the classroom and helping my students understand group polarisation, implicit relationship rules, and theories of personality. However, I was worriedContinue reading “What I learned from marking assignments”
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The Post-PhD Blues
The day was finally here. I was done. I had done all the checks, the proofs, and I couldn’t face reading my thesis any more. It had taken three and a half years, eleven studies, and 2,233 participants. I was done. I logged onto my university’s submission page, attached a PDF of my thesis, andContinue reading “The Post-PhD Blues”
How’s the academic job market?
So, how’s the academic job market? This is the first question I asked the minute the end of my PhD was in sight. The process of finding a job in the Ivory Towers of the world seemed to be cloaked in mystery. Just as I was asking this question, serendipitously this study “Insights from aContinue reading “How’s the academic job market?”
