{"id":136,"date":"2017-11-13T15:43:45","date_gmt":"2017-11-13T15:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/doctoralstudies\/?p=136"},"modified":"2018-02-28T10:27:25","modified_gmt":"2018-02-28T10:27:25","slug":"phd-bloggers-wanted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/doctoralstudies\/2017\/11\/13\/phd-bloggers-wanted\/","title":{"rendered":"PhD Bloggers Wanted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Do you have a personal experience of PhD life you\u2019d like to share with your peers?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Whether it\u2019s dealing with writer\u2019s block, tips and tricks for time management, or just your own unique perspective on the life of a postgraduate research student at King\u2019s \u2013 we want to hear from you!<\/p>\n<p>The Centre for Doctoral Studies is looking for contributions to its blog from research students at King\u2019s, on a range of topics including, but not limited to:<\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li>Starting out as a PhD student<\/li>\n<li>Life as an international student<\/li>\n<li>Living in London<\/li>\n<li>Cultural challenges<\/li>\n<li>Time management<\/li>\n<li>The writing-up process<\/li>\n<li>Study skills and research methods<\/li>\n<li>Creative approaches to research<\/li>\n<li>The upgrade &amp; Viva<\/li>\n<li>Getting published<\/li>\n<li>Teaching experience<\/li>\n<li>Presenting at conferences<\/li>\n<li>Mental health and wellbeing<\/li>\n<li>Life outside the library\/lab<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is a great opportunity to practice your communication and engagement skills as well as get your name and research out there. More importantly, sharing personal perspectives from current PGR students can offer other students valuable support and practical insight into the challenges and joys of working towards a doctorate.<\/p>\n<p>To have a post featured on the Centre for Doctoral Studies blog, send your submissions or pitch your ideas to\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:doctoralnews@kcl.ac.uk\">doctoralnews@kcl.ac.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Please note, publication on the CDS blog is at the discretion of its editor. Submissions should not exceed 1000 words.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you have a personal experience of PhD life you\u2019d like to share with your peers? Whether it\u2019s dealing with writer\u2019s block, tips and tricks for time management, or just your own unique perspective on the life of a postgraduate research student at King\u2019s \u2013 we want to hear from you! The Centre for Doctoral [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[25,27,26],"class_list":["post-136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pgr-community","category-training","tag-blog","tag-phd","tag-writing","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/doctoralstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/doctoralstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/doctoralstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/doctoralstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/805"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/doctoralstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/doctoralstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/doctoralstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions\/137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/doctoralstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/doctoralstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/doctoralstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}