The PhD life is interesting. You start off in a world knowing very little and are constantly warned about how much harder it will get. No one really prepares you for how the 1st year of a PhD goes. So let me be the one to give you the low-down, on things you should aim…

I’m 3 months into my PhD. I’ve watched maybe every YouTube video on how to be productive as a PhD student. Luckily, there’s only like 8 videos. A lot of them share advice that’s akin to treating a PhD like a 9-5 job. The problem is, a PhD is not a 9-5 job. The difference between PhD’s…

You want to write a lit review (See what I did there?). But you don’t know where to start. I got you. It can be quite overwhelming. Don’t stress. I have a 5-step method to help you write one, based on my experience writing my lit review. Let’s get into it. 1. Write down 5 atomic topics…

Lit reviews are long. It’s a lot of work. It’s so easy to put it off to the last minute. I did that for my dissertation last year. Big mistake. Here’s why you should do a lit review beforehand. You can discover what’s already done This is the most obvious takeaway. It’s a lot easier…

I’ve written academically about my PhD, but I feel for it to be useful, the average person needs to understand what I’m doing from a more foundational standpoint. So, my PhD title is: Safe listening in music venues: scalable technologies for citizen science and knowledge building. In simple terms Safe listening in music venues is…