Category: PhD Life
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Teaching: Ideal vs. Reality
Linda van den Heijkant On September 6, I was standing in front of 24 brand new students, ready to give my first tutorial ever. About 7 years ago, I was the fresh student walking into the university building to attend my first lecture – and now here I was, feeling a bit uneasy to be…
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Staying on Track: Finding Motivation at the Intersection of Autonomy, Competence, and Relatedness
Zeph M. C. van Berlo The road of a PhD candidate can be long and troublesome. Data collection is always delayed, your paper gets rejected (again!), and an avalanche of student emails keeps clogging your inbox (and your mind). Many external factors can keep you from staying on track. But face it; the biggest threat…
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The Skills We Forgot To Mention
Marthe Möllerkamp; Anna Brosius Completing a PhD often is a rocky road that ends in a fork. Once PhD candidates are in the final phase of writing up their dissertation, many face a new challenge: Finding their next job. Even though the majority of new PhDs eventually end up working in the private sector, the…
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ASCoR Career Event – What the future might bring
Nadine Strauß What am I going to do after my PhD? Should I stay in academia or am I maybe better suited for the private sector? What are my chances to get a job after obtaining my degree? Every PhD faces questions like these at some point in time. Facing a highly competitive job market,…
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Can Science Make You Happy?
Marthe Möller Aristoteles wrote about it over 2300 years ago, there exist numerous magazine articles with tips on how to get more of it, and it is the central topic of many movies: Happiness. We discuss it over and over again, and we are prepared to do a lot to get it. In 2009, Gretchen…
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Where are we heading? The Future of Communication Science
Verena Wottrich, Nadine Strauß A position paper by the NeFCA (Netherlands-Flanders Communication Association) Young Scholars Network. Given recent technological, societal, and political developments (e.g., virtual reality, Trump election, Brexit), the NeFCA Young Scholars Network organized a brainstorming session to discuss the future of communication science. In the beginning of February 2017, PhDs and young scholars…
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4 Reasons for Going on a Research Visit
Nadine Strauß Erasmus semester during your Bachelor studies, going oversees during your Master’s or even doing a second degree in another country – for most of us Ph.D. students, international experience is part of our extensive academic training. So why would you consider to do a research visit abroad during your years as a Ph.D.…
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Do we actually understand each other? Moving beyond the language.
Rena Zendedel Agar argues that it is not enough to know the language – that is, words and grammar to be able to communicate – you should also learn the culture. What is in the minds of people you’re communicating with? How does their world look like? Agar compares US migrant workers with little knowledge…
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